General Merchandise Team Leader
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We need to parse the job posting.
Key sections:
- Pay: Starting pay range per hour $20.75 - $22.75. Full pay range per hour $20.75 - $35.25. Pay based on factors etc. So we have pay info.
- Benefits: "In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member... Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more... 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."
Also there is a Benefits Eligibility URL: "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_C". This is also benefits info.
Thus we have Benefits section.
- About the role: There's a paragraph: "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 here." Then "All About General Merchandise Experts of operations, process and efficiency who enable a consistent experience for our guests. Teams in General Merchandise (GM) prioritize guest experience while blending completion of tasks that ensure product is available and easy to shop – replenishment, pricing and signing, setting, and maintaining the sales floor and the backroom. The GM teams also execute inbound, outbound, and fulfillment responsibilities." This seems like description of role.
Thus we could have an "About the role" section containing that prose.
- Skills: There's a "Skills" heading in the posting: "Skills At Target, we believe in our leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a General Merchandise Team Leader can provide you with the skills and experience of:" then a list of bullet points (some are long sentences). So we need a Skills section with
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- Responsibilities: There's a "Responsibilities As a General Merchandise Team Leader, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day most likely will include the following responsibilities:" then a long list of bullet points (each starting with a verb). So we need Responsibilities section with
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- Requirements / Qualifications: There's a "What We Are Looking For This may be the right job for you if:" then bullet points (list). Then "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. But, There Are a Few Things You Need From The Get-go" then bullet list of requirements (high school diploma or equivalent, age 18+, etc). Also later "About We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect:" then bullet list of physical requirements etc. So we have multiple requirement-like sections. We need to decide whether to combine into Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule, About the role, Responsibilities. We can choose to have Requirements (or Qualifications) covering the "What We Are Looking For" and the "few things you need from the get-go" and the "basics we expect". However we must not create sections with filler/placeholder text. All content is substantive.
We also have Schedule: The posting mentions flexible work schedule, variable hours, etc. There's a line: "You 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)". Also later: "Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); reliable and prompt attendance necessaryAlthough the role is full-time, it does not come with a guarantee of 40 hours each week. Hours will depend on the needs of the business and may fluctuate as required". So we have schedule info. Should we create a Schedule section? The instruction says only create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections if posting actually states them. It does state schedule info, so we can include a Schedule section.
But we need to avoid thin sections. However schedule info is substantive enough.
We also have "About" maybe we can combine "All About Target" and "All About General Merchandise" into About the role.
We need to ensure we don't duplicate content. We'll extract all substantive info and place into appropriate sections.
Let's list content:
Pay:
- Starting pay range per hour: $20.75 - $22.75.
- Full pay range per hour: $20.75 - $35.25.
- Pay based on factors: labor markets, education, work experience, certifications.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health benefits and programs for eligible team members and dependents: may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more.
- Other benefits: 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, paid vacation.
- Link to competitive benefits: https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
- Benefits eligibility URL: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_C (Spanish version also).
About the role:
- 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 here.
- All About General Merchandise: Experts of operations, process and efficiency who enable a consistent experience for our guests. Teams in General Merchandise (GM) prioritize guest experience while blending completion of tasks that ensure product is available and easy to shop – replenishment, pricing and signing, setting, and maintaining the sales floor and the backroom. The GM teams also execute inbound, outbound, and fulfillment responsibilities.
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 promotions 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, all while driving process improvements and enhancing workload efficiency
- Leading a team of hourly team members, including skills in 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 (list):
- 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
- With 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 areas
- With 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 availability
- Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assist to develop a plan to resolve for your direct leader to review and approve
- Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency
- 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
- With your direct leader’s guidance, help establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations
- With 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 plan
- Help 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. Collaborate with all teams and leaders (including closing team) to identify key priorities and ensure the store is guest ready in alignment with your leader’s direction
- Stay informed about relevant trends and products to educate team members by relaying Target communications from available tools and resources during team connection moments
- Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest-centric team, as directed by your direct leader. Model a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions
- Identify team members for future leader positions and utilize growth development to build a talent pool within your department
- Support guest services such as back-up cashier, digital fulfillment processes while maintaining a compliance culture, including compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage laws
- Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences
- Demonstrate 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 way
- 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
- 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
- All other duties based on business needs
Requirements / Qualifications:
From "What We Are Looking For This may be the right job for you if:" bullet list:
- You enjoy interacting and helping others - including guests that shop our store and fellow team members you work with
- You thrive in a fast-moving,
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences. We need to parse the job posting. Key sections: - Pay: Starting pay range per hour $20.75 - $22.75. Full pay range per hour $20.75 - $35.25. Pay based on factors etc. So we have pay info. - Benefits: "In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member... Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more... 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." Also there is a Benefits Eligibility URL: "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_C". This is also benefits info. Thus we have Benefits section. - About the role: There's a paragraph: "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 here." Then "All About General Merchandise Experts of operations, process and efficiency who enable a consistent experience for our guests. Teams in General Merchandise (GM) prioritize guest experience while blending completion of tasks that ensure product is available and easy to shop – replenishment, pricing and signing, setting, and maintaining the sales floor and the backroom. The GM teams also execute inbound, outbound, and fulfillment responsibilities." This seems like description of role. Thus we could have an "About the role" section containing that prose. - Skills: There's a "Skills" heading in the posting: "Skills At Target, we believe in our leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a General Merchandise Team Leader can provide you with the skills and experience of:" then a list of bullet points (some are long sentences). So we need a Skills section with
- .
- Responsibilities: There's a "Responsibilities As a General Merchandise Team Leader, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day most likely will include the following responsibilities:" then a long list of bullet points (each starting with a verb). So we need Responsibilities section with
- . - Requirements / Qualifications: There's a "What We Are Looking For This may be the right job for you if:" then bullet points (list). Then "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. But, There Are a Few Things You Need From The Get-go" then bullet list of requirements (high school diploma or equivalent, age 18+, etc). Also later "About We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect:" then bullet list of physical requirements etc. So we have multiple requirement-like sections. We need to decide whether to combine into Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule, About the role, Responsibilities. We can choose to have Requirements (or Qualifications) covering the "What We Are Looking For" and the "few things you need from the get-go" and the "basics we expect". However we must not create sections with filler/placeholder text. All content is substantive. We also have Schedule: The posting mentions flexible work schedule, variable hours, etc. There's a line: "You 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)". Also later: "Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); reliable and prompt attendance necessaryAlthough the role is full-time, it does not come with a guarantee of 40 hours each week. Hours will depend on the needs of the business and may fluctuate as required". So we have schedule info. Should we create a Schedule section? The instruction says only create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections if posting actually states them. It does state schedule info, so we can include a Schedule section. But we need to avoid thin sections. However schedule info is substantive enough. We also have "About" maybe we can combine "All About Target" and "All About General Merchandise" into About the role. We need to ensure we don't duplicate content. We'll extract all substantive info and place into appropriate sections. Let's list content: Pay: - Starting pay range per hour: $20.75 - $22.75. - Full pay range per hour: $20.75 - $35.25. - Pay based on factors: labor markets, education, work experience, certifications. Benefits: - Comprehensive health benefits and programs for eligible team members and dependents: may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more. - Other benefits: 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, paid vacation. - Link to competitive benefits: https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits. - Benefits eligibility URL: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_C (Spanish version also). About the role: - 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 here. - All About General Merchandise: Experts of operations, process and efficiency who enable a consistent experience for our guests. Teams in General Merchandise (GM) prioritize guest experience while blending completion of tasks that ensure product is available and easy to shop – replenishment, pricing and signing, setting, and maintaining the sales floor and the backroom. The GM teams also execute inbound, outbound, and fulfillment responsibilities. 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 promotions 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, all while driving process improvements and enhancing workload efficiency - Leading a team of hourly team members, including skills in 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 (list): - 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 - With 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 areas - With 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 availability - Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assist to develop a plan to resolve for your direct leader to review and approve - Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency - 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 - With your direct leader’s guidance, help establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations - With 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 plan - Help 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. Collaborate with all teams and leaders (including closing team) to identify key priorities and ensure the store is guest ready in alignment with your leader’s direction - Stay informed about relevant trends and products to educate team members by relaying Target communications from available tools and resources during team connection moments - Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest-centric team, as directed by your direct leader. Model a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions - Identify team members for future leader positions and utilize growth development to build a talent pool within your department - Support guest services such as back-up cashier, digital fulfillment processes while maintaining a compliance culture, including compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage laws - Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences - Demonstrate 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 way - 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 - 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 - All other duties based on business needs Requirements / Qualifications: From "What We Are Looking For This may be the right job for you if:" bullet list: - You enjoy interacting and helping others - including guests that shop our store and fellow team members you work with - You thrive in a fast-moving,