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General Merchandise Team Leader

Target, Goleta, California, us, 93116

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The pay range per hour is $26.00 - $44.20.

Benefits include:

Health, vision, dental, and life insurance

401(k) plan and employee discount

Paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation

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

All About General Merchandise 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 (GM) areas of the store. This team also leads inventory accuracy, merchandise set‑up and pricing processes for all areas of the store. This team may also lead Food & Beverage and Food Service, providing a fresh and food safe experience.

Skills

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 promotional strategies

Leading a team by planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver sales goals, with alignment from your direct leader, and driving process improvements and enhancing workload efficiency

Leading a team of hourly team members; 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

Responsibilities

Execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, pricing, setting and updating merchandise sales‑floor displays, sampling, promotions and price change.

With guidance from your leader, educate your team on how operational procedures 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 them.

Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency.

Help with 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 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.

Help establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.

Assist with pick, pack and ship fulfillment work accurately (if applicable) and assess reporting in fulfillment to identify gaps and develop a plan.

Collaborate with all teams and leaders to identify key priorities and ensure the store is guest ready.

Stay informed about relevant trends and products to educate team members.

Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest‑centric team.

Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs (early morning, evening, overnight shifts and weekends).

Support guest services such as back‑up cashier, digital fulfillment processes while maintaining compliance culture.

Demonstrate inclusivity and uphold a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance.

Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling safe behaviors, identifying hazards, holding team accountable, incident response, and reporting injuries.

Model execution of physical security processes to enhance in‑store security culture.

Support merchandise protection strategies across the store.

What We Are Looking For

You enjoy interacting and helping others — including guests and fellow team members.

You thrive in a fast‑moving, highly active and physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem‑solving are key.

You are open to working a flexible work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays and other peak shopping times).

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.

Age 18 or older.

Previous retail experience preferred, but not required.

Lead and hold others accountable.

Communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners.

Work independently and as part of a team.

Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently.

Remain focused and composed in a fast‑paced environment.

Welcoming and helpful attitude toward guests and team members.

Effective communication skills.

Target will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco and City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non‑accommodation related requests, such as application follow‑ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.

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