Specialty Sales Team Leader (Jackson, TN)

Target•Jackson, TN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Specialty Sales Team Leader role is part of a team of specialized consultants who focus on delivering an exceptional guest experience through strong operations, compelling visual merchandising, and inspiring presentations. This role involves managing daily operations within specific departments such as Apparel and Accessories, Home, Baby, Core Beauty, and Electronics. The position aims to develop leaders by providing meaningful experiences and building skills in guest service, retail business fundamentals, inventory management, sales trends, and team leadership. A typical day involves ensuring team members deliver on guest experience commitments, providing feedback and coaching, analyzing performance metrics, and planning daily/weekly workloads to meet sales goals. The role also includes leading and developing a team of hourly consultants, assigning tasks, encouraging the use of in-store tools, partnering with vendors, creating inspiring visual displays, and supporting backroom operations and replenishment. Additionally, the role involves participating in hiring and onboarding, ensuring fitting rooms are maintained, establishing clear goals, and upholding a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance. The Team Leader may also assume Store Leader on Duty responsibilities, support guest services like cashiering and order pickup, and ensure compliance with all relevant laws and policies.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent
Must be at least 18 years of age or older
Lead and hold others accountable
Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed
Work independently and as part of a team
Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently
Welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members
Effective communication skills
Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes
Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues
Interpret instructions, reports and information
Accurately handle cash register operations as needed
Climb up and down ladders as needed
Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 15 pounds and occasionally lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others
Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing certain job duties including but not limited to Drive-Up, carryout, etc. as needed
Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift (shift length may vary).

Nice To Haves

Previous retail experience preferred, but not required

Responsibilities

Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience.
Ensures every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operations.
Actively observes and provides feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments.
Reviews area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, takes action to improve, and aligns team on the right behaviors and execution, celebrates wins, drives results that deliver outcomes and elevates the guest experience.
Demonstrate a service culture that prioritizes the guest service experience.
Model, train and coach team member expectations to deliver on our GUEST service model culture.
Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
Plan daily/weekly workload at the direction of your direct leader and execute the same to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including planning merchandising sets, make changes and updates to merchandise sets (planograms), sales plans, events and promotions.
Lead and demonstrate a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions.
With direct leader guidance, develop, coach, and lead a team of consultants who are knowledgeable and passionate.
Assign daily tasks to TMs based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities set by your direct leader.
Encourage team to use tools available in their department (i.e. the fitting room, testers, displays) as an opportunity to welcome, inspire and influence guests by providing personalized recommendations to complete their purchase.
With direct leader guidance, partner with third party vendors to ensure brand standards and merchandising are being met and areas are full and maintained.
Support team execution of changes and updates to merchandise sets, and visual presentations for defined categories.
Create inspiring visual moments by ensuring product is organized, signed correctly and merchandised to support seasonal trends.
Support your direct leader in leading assigned department area backroom processes, organization, layout and replenishment of the sales floor to ensure product is available for guests.
Participate in team hiring and onboarding processes.
Lead your team in prioritizing the guest experience by ensuring the fitting rooms are welcoming, clean and safe if applicable to your assigned areas of responsibility.
Support your direct leader in establishing clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.
Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; lead and hold the team accountable to work in the same way.
Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards, holding team accountable to following safety expectations, assisting with incident response, and reporting/investigating injuries timely and accurately.
Model the execution of physical security processes in order to enhance the instore security culture.
Support merchandise protection strategies across the total store, including ordering, storage and application as directed by best practices.
If applicable, as a key carrier, follow all safe and secure training and processes.
Occasionally assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for the store during assigned shifts based on store needs.
Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
Support guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up (OPU) and Drive-up (DU) and maintain a compliance culture while executing those duties, such as compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage laws.
All other duties based on business needs.