General Merchandise Team Leader

General Merchandise Team Leader

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Pay range per hour: $25.00 – $42.50

Target offers comprehensive benefits for eligible team members and their dependents, including medical, vision, dental and life insurance, 401(k), employee discount, short‑term and long‑term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Learn more about Target benefits at

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.

Experts of operations, process and efficiency who enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is set, merchandised and available, accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. The General Merchandise and Food Sales team leads inbound, outbound, replenishment, and promotional signing processes for all General Merchandise areas of the store, and also leads inventory accuracy, merchandise set‑up and pricing processes.

At Target, we believe in our leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a General Merchandise Team Leader can provide you with the following skills and experience:

• Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest first culture on your team
• Retail business fundamentals including department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies
• Leading a team by planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver sales goals, driving process improvements and enhancing workload efficiency
• Leading a team of hourly team members; including skills in interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating and retaining talent
• Coaching and training hourly team members to build a team of hourly team members with direction from your direct leader

As a General Merchandise Team Leader, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day most likely will include the following responsibilities:

• Execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, pricing, setting and updating merchandise salesfloor displays, sampling, promotions and price change
• With guidance from your leader, educate your team on how operational procedures, such as setting up and organizing merchandise, managing product stock levels, and maintaining sales floor areas, affect inventory management, store profitability, and product availability
• Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assist in developing a plan to resolve for your direct leader to review and approve
• Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency
• Assist with and lead the daily execution of tasks such as receiving products, restocking shelves, organizing the backroom, arranging merchandise, and putting up promotional signs for GM areas
• Assist and lead with the processes in inventory accuracy, merchandise set‑up and maintenance, and pricing for all areas of the store
• Assign daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities set by your leader
• Help establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations
• Help with efficient delivery to our guests by leading pick, pack and ship fulfillment work accurately and assess reporting in fulfillment to identify gaps and assist in developing a plan
• Responsible for collaborating with all teams and leaders (including closing team) to identify key priorities and ensure the store is guest ready in alignment with your leader’s direction
• Stay informed about relevant trends and products to educate team members by relaying Target communications from available tools and resources during team connection moments
• Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest‑centric team, as directed by your immediate leader, model a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through…