Food Service Team Leader, Houston Galleria

The role of a Food Service Team Leader can provide you with the skills and experience of: 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.Understand sales goals, plan and execute daily/weekly workload to deliver department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including planning food service transitions, revisions, sales plans, sampling, promotions and price change workload.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.Assess Food Service back of house, production areas, dining spaces and merchandising spaces to ensure food safety and proper inventory levels with guidance from your direct leader.Walk Food & Beverage Standards and Food Service routines daily to assess priorities and review reporting to identify business gaps for follow-up.Follow all food safety requirements and cleaning routines, including monitoring and recording temperature sensitive food items, as outlined in Target’s policies and procedures.Validate and follow-up on team members’ progress against department checklists and routines.Lead team to uphold and maintain all Starbucks and Pizza Hut Brand Standards and production specifications (where applicable).Ensure accurate in-stocks by placing store-initiated orders according to best practices.Follow proper perishable inventory management procedures to ensure an accurate recording of inventory.Make production quantity decisions just in time to ensure freshness, in-stocks, sales and profitability are achieved consistently.Remain up-to-date on relevant trends and products to educate team members.Participate in team hiring and onboarding processes.At direction of your direct leader, establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.In addition to Food Safety Manager Certification, complete all Starbucks and/or Pizza Hut training requirements and certifications.Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; lead your team to work in the same way and hold others accountable to this commitment.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.Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.Lead and demonstrate a culture of executing all best practices; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions.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 laws. This may be the right job for you if: The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a Food Service Team Leader. Hours will depend on the needs of the business and may fluctuate as requiredAbility to work in environments that will include refrigeration and freezer temperatures and conditions; where common allergens may also be handled or presentCapable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing certain job duties, including but not limited to Drive-Ups, carryout, etc.Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shifts (shift length may vary)Benefits Eligibility