Food & Beverage Team Leader (Meat/Dairy/Frozen)

About the role

The role of a Food & Beverage Team Leader at Target involves leading a team to ensure a consistent and fresh experience for guests, managing daily and weekly workloads to meet sales goals, and maintaining a food-safe environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver guest experience commitments and ensure consistent operations.
• Observe and provide feedback to team members, holding them accountable while recognizing great moments.
• Review and analyze area metrics to identify opportunities and drive results.
• Plan and execute daily/weekly workload to support Food & Beverage priorities and sales goals.
• Lead a team of hourly team members, including interviewing, training, coaching, evaluating, retaining, and developing talent.
• Assess backroom and sales floor areas, ensuring they are fresh, full, and food safe.
• Assign daily tasks to team members based on workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• Validate and follow up on team members' progress, ensuring they meet assigned workload tasks, production area routines, and best practices.
• Lead team huddles to communicate focuses and trends, leveraging store reporting and HQ communications.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with vendors to ensure clear expectations are met and areas are reliably in-stock.
• Place store-initiated orders according to best practices, and support guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up (OPU), and Drive-up (DU).
• Support the hiring and onboarding process of new team members, and participate in team hiring and onboarding processes.
• Ensure product availability by supporting merchandise protection strategies and merchandise ordering.
• Model and recognize safe behaviors, assist with incident response, and report/investigate injuries.
• Support merchandise protection strategies across the total store, including ordering, storage, and application as directed by best practices.
• Support the Starbucks and/or Pizza Hut Brand Standards, fostering a productive partnership with your Starbucks district manager.
• Address store emergency and compliance requirements, and occasionally assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old or older.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Previous retail and/or food experience preferred, but not required.
• Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Capable of remaining focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes.
• A welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members.
• Effective communication skills.

Qualifications

• Lead and hold others accountable.
• Communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed.
• Work independently and as part of a team.
• Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently.
• Remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift.

Skills

• 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 interviewing, training, coaching, evaluating, retaining, and developing talent.
• Understanding and interpreting instructions, reports, and information.
• Accurately handling cash register operations as needed.
• Climbing up and down ladders if needed.
• Scanning, handling, and moving merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others.
• Working in environments that will include refrigeration and freezer temperatures and conditions; where common allergens may also be handled or present.
• Remaining mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift (shift length may vary).

Benefits

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