Specialty Sales Team Leader

Pay

The starting pay range for this position is $24.00 - $26.00 per hour. The full pay range is $24.00 - $40.80 per hour. Pay is based on several factors including labor markets, education, work experience, and certifications.

Benefits

Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Employee discount
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

For more details, visit Target Benefits.

About the Role

As a Specialty Sales Team Leader, you will help all families discover the joy of everyday life by delivering a strong operations, incredible guest experience, and compelling visual merchandising presentations. This role focuses on teams in Apparel and Accessories (A&A), Home, Baby, Core Beauty, and Electronics, prioritizing guest experience while ensuring product availability and ease of shopping.

This role provides the opportunity to build and develop skills for a career, including:

• Guest service fundamentals and building a guest-first culture
• Retail business fundamentals, such as department sales trends, inventory management, and pricing strategies
• Planning daily and weekly workloads to support business priorities and sales goals
• Leading multiple departments and teams with varied expertise
• Interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating, and retaining talent

Responsibilities

• Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an easy, inspiring, and friendly shopping experience.
• Ensure team members are trained and consistently deliver on Target’s guest experience commitments and operational standards.
• Review guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, take action, and celebrate wins.
• Demonstrate a service culture that prioritizes guest service, modeling and coaching team members on expectations.
• Plan and execute daily/weekly workloads to meet department and store sales goals and guest engagement.
• Lead and demonstrate best practices, helping close skill gaps through development and coaching.
• Assign daily tasks based on workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• Encourage the team to use department tools (e.g., fitting rooms, testers, displays) to provide personalized guest recommendations.
• Partner with third-party vendors to ensure brand standards and merchandising are met.
• Support team execution of changes to merchandise sets and visual presentations.
• Lead backroom processes, organization, and replenishment to ensure product availability.
• Prioritize guest experience by maintaining clean, safe, and welcoming fitting rooms (if applicable).
• Establish clear goals and expectations, holding team members accountable.
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance, including incident reporting and hazard correction.
• Model physical security processes to enhance in-store security culture.
• Support merchandise protection strategies, including ordering, storage, and application.
• Assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities as needed.
• Address store emergency and compliance needs, including federal, state, and local adult beverage laws.
• Support guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick-up (OPU), and Drive-Up (DU).

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must be at least 18 years of age or older.
• Previous retail experience preferred but not required.
• Ability to lead and hold others accountable.
• Experience communicating via multiple frequency devices, handheld scanners, and other technology.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong workload management and task prioritization skills.
• Welcoming and helpful attitude toward guests and team members.
• Effective communication skills.
• Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment.

Schedule

• Open to working a variable work schedule with varying hours, days, or shifts, including nights, weekends, holidays, and closing shifts.
• Reliable and prompt attendance is necessary.
• Full-time role, but hours may fluctuate based on business needs and are not guaranteed at 40 hours per week.

Physical Requirements

• Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues.
• Interpret instructions, reports, and information accurately.
• Handle cash register operations as needed.
• Climb up and down ladders as needed.
• Scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 15 pounds and occasionally up to 44 pounds without assistance.
• Capable of working in varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements (e.g., Drive-Up, carryout).
• Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift (shift length may vary).