Food & Beverage Team Leader

About the role

The role of a Food & Beverage Team Leader at Target can provide you with valuable skills and experiences, including:

• Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest-first and freshness culture on your team
• Food & Beverage business fundamentals, including department sales trends, freshness, food safety and quality, inventory management, item reliability, guest shopping patterns and pricing and promotions strategies
• Planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support Food & Beverage priorities and deliver sales goals
• Leading a team of hourly team members, including skills in interviewing, training, coaching, evaluating, retaining and developing talent.

Responsibilities

As a Food & Beverage Team Leader, you will be responsible for:

• Consistently delivering guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience.
• Ensuring every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operations.
• Actively observing and providing feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments.
• Reviewing area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, taking action to improve, and aligning team on the right behaviors and execution, celebrating wins, driving results that deliver outcomes and elevating the guest experience.
• Understanding sales goals, planning and executing daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, pricing, changes to salesfloor merchandise displays, sampling and promotions.
• Assessing backroom and sales floor areas of Food & Beverage and Food Service on a daily basis by walking the Target Food & Beverage Standards.
• Prioritizing your business needs and identifying workload tasks for the team; reviewing reporting to identify business trends for follow-up.
• Maintaining a fresh, full and food safe area during all operating hours leveraging strong inventory management, area routines and Food Safety policies and procedures.
• Supporting your leader in the hiring and onboarding process of new team members.
• Participating in team hiring and onboarding processes.
• Supporting guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up (OPU) and Drive-up (DU) and maintaining a compliance culture while executing those duties, such as compliance with federal, state, and local laws.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years old or older
• A high school diploma or equivalent
• Previous retail and/or food experience preferred, but not required
• Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business
• Lead and hold others accountable
• Communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed
• Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently
• Capable of remaining focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes
• Welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members
• Effective communication skills

Benefits

Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.