Specialty Sales Team Leader - Fort Worth, TX

Target • Fort Worth, TX

19h • Onsite

About The Position

The Specialty Sales Team Leader role is part of a team of specialized consultants who focus on meeting guest needs through strong operations, exceptional guest experience, and compelling visual merchandising. This role involves leading teams in departments such as Apparel and Accessories, Home, Baby, Beauty, and Electronics, prioritizing guest experience while ensuring product availability and ease of shopping. The position offers opportunities to develop skills in guest service, retail business fundamentals, department management, and team leadership, including interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating, and retaining talent.

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

Responsibilities

• Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience.
• Ensure every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operations.
• Actively observe and provide feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments.
• Review area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, take action to improve, and align team on the right behaviors and execution.
• Demonstrate a service culture that prioritizes the guest service experience, modeling, training, and coaching team member expectations.
• Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
• Plan daily/weekly workload and execute to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including planning merchandising sets, making changes to merchandise sets, 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.
• Develop, coach, and lead a team of consultants who are knowledgeable and passionate.
• Assign daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities.
• Encourage team to use tools available in their department as an opportunity to welcome, inspire and influence guests by providing personalized recommendations.
• Partner with third party vendors to ensure brand standards and merchandising are being met and areas are full and maintained.
• Support team's 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 backroom processes, organization, layout and replenishment of the salesfloor 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.
• Establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance.
• 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 pickup (OPU) and Drive-up (DU) and maintain a compliance culture while executing those duties.
• All other duties based on business needs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs (medical, vision, dental, 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: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees