Sept. 8, 2026

General Merchandise Team Leader

Target South Portland, Maine

Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experienceEnsures every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operationsActively observes and provides feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience momentsReviews 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 experienceWith your direct leaders guidance, lead the execution of daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including receiving products, merchandising, signing, setting and updating merchandise salesfloor displays, sampling, restocking shelves, organizing backrooms, and price change for GM areasWith guidance from your direct leader, educate your team on how operational procedures, such as setting up and organizing merchandise, managing product accuracy and stock levels, and maintaining sales floor areas, affect inventory management, store profitability, and product availabilityHelp assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assist to develop a plan to resolve for your direct leader to review and approveBe an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiencyAssign daily tasks to TMs based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities set by your direct leaderWith your direct leader’s guidance, help establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectationsWith your direct leader’s guidance, help with efficient delivery to our guests by leading pick, pack and ship fulfillment work accurately (if applicable) and assess reporting in fulfillment to identify gaps and assist to develop a planHelp enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, available, accurately priced and signed on the sales floor while prioritizing guest experience. Model a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactionsIdentify team members for future leader positions and utilize growth development to build a talent pool within your departmentSupport guest services such as back-up cashier, digital fulfillment processes while maintaining a compliance culture, including compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage lawsDemonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiencesDemonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, following all Target policies and safety procedures, adhere to role-specific guidelines (e.g., food safety, pricing), and help maintain a safe, compliant workplace by reporting and correcting hazard s; lead and hold the team accountable to work in the same wayLead 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 accuratelyModel the execution of physical security processes in order to enhance the instore security cultureSupport merchandise protection strategies across the total store; including ordering, storage and application as directed by best practices. This may be the right job for you if: You enjoy interacting and helping others - including guests that shop our store and fellow team members you work withYou thrive in a fast-moving, highly active and physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to successYou are open to working a variable work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays, closing shifts and other peak shopping times)The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a General Merchandise Team Leader. Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_C | Pegue esta URL en su navegador preferido para obtener información sobre la elegibilidad de este puesto para recibir beneficios: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_CAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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