Operations Manager - Upstream Distribution Center - Suffolk, VA

Target • Suffolk, VA

11d • $73,000 - $132,000

About The Position

The Operations Manager in Target’s Distribution and Receive Centers is responsible for helping get product to guests quickly. The role focuses on safety, leadership, operational excellence, problem-solving, and teamwork. The manager fosters a safety-first culture through awareness, training, and accountability, and leads an engaged and inclusive team to maximize productivity, growth, and development.

The position involves observing work and providing specific, constructive, actionable feedback; executing operational plans; achieving performance and budget goals; and keeping teams informed and coordinated across functions. The manager may innovate process and methods to improve efficiency and optimize future process flow, investigate root causes, and support teams in meeting business goals. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, including the ability to engage and motivate others.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Good reasoning, conflict-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to access all areas of the Distribution Center, including mezzanine platforms.
• Ability to read and interpret necessary policies and procedures, perform updates, and operate systems and other Distribution Center programs, including traversing conveyor crossovers.

Responsibilities

• Foster a safety-first culture through awareness, training, and accountability.
• Lead and engage the team to maximize productivity, growth, and development.
• Create a positive work environment through real-time observation and specific, constructive, and actionable feedback.
• Execute operational plans and achieve performance and budget goals.
• Keep teams informed and coordinated across functions.
• Innovate with new process and method approaches to improve efficiency and optimize future process flow.
• Identify root causes of problems in an environment that supports calculated risk and testing.
• Help teams meet their business goals.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and their dependents may receive comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager