Store Director

Target • Warrenville, IL

2d • $106,000 - $212,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Store Director is responsible for leading a team with the purpose of helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. This role involves developing leaders who care about their teams, guests, and each other. The Store Director leads a team of experts, advocates, and consultants passionate about ensuring guests have a positive shopping experience. This position also involves accountability for running a profitable growth business. Target offers meaningful experiences for leaders to build and develop skills for a career, providing opportunities to gain experience in managing large teams, recruiting, talent management, guest service, retail business financials, developing store-specific strategies, understanding total store retail fundamentals, setting quarterly business priorities, and making informed business decisions.

Requirements

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Team leadership and engagement
• Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial and quantitative analysis
• Manage conflict and lead and hold others accountable
• Relate well with and interact with all levels of the organization
• Welcoming and helpful attitude
• Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently
• Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes
• Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed
• 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 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.
• Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift (shift length may vary)
• Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays) and reliable and prompt attendance necessary

Nice To Haves

• Enjoy interacting and helping others - including guests that shop our store and fellow team members you work with.
• Thrive in a fast-moving, highly active and physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to success.
• Open to working a flexible work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays and other peak shopping times).

Responsibilities

• Cultivate a guest-centric and engaged team by leading talent culture through onboarding, development, and growth of leaders.
• Drive accountability through clear expectations and consistent performance management.
• Create and deliver sustainable and equitable talent strategies in partnership with HR to fuel career progression and team growth.
• Be approachable and available for the team, fostering a culture where issues are resolved quickly.
• Recruit, hire, and retain a passionate team with area-specific knowledge and expertise.
• Oversee the scheduling process to meet business needs while ensuring a consistent guest experience and aligning with team member availability.
• Own and implement leadership schedules that align with guest and business needs, including weekends, mornings, evenings, and overnight shifts.
• Demonstrate and promote inclusivity by valuing diverse voices, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
• Invest in and follow up on personal and team training to enhance skills and capabilities.
• Model creating a welcoming experience by greeting guests.
• Demonstrate how to engage with guests, offering assistance and solving their needs.
• Lead by thanking guests and expressing appreciation for their choice to shop at Target.
• Drive a guest-obsessed culture, balancing in-store and digital guest experiences to meet sales and operational goals.
• Build and execute plans to run an efficient operation to fund future growth.
• Lead and create a culture of executing best practices by understanding operational shortage areas, building routines, and establishing clear goals.
• Leverage financial, operational, safety, food safety, team, and guest reports to understand the business and make decisions.
• Lead a culture of financial accountability by monitoring sales trends, leadership headcount, payroll, and hourly overtime.
• Assess the competition and leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business.
• Build relationships within the store's community to address local needs.
• Leverage field support partners to solve problems and drive operational improvement.
• Set clear priorities for the team by balancing competing demands.
• Own the safety culture and performance for the store by modeling safe behaviors, identifying hazards, assisting with incident response, and validating investigations.
• Validate an instore security culture by focusing on deterrence, response, and resolution.
• Validate that merchandise protection strategies are executed according to best practices.
• Follow all safe and secure training and processes as a key carrier.
• Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance, and hold the team accountable.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 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
• Education Level: Associate degree