Executive Team Leader GM and Food Sales (Assistant Manager General Merchandise & Grocery)- East Phoenix, AZ

About the Position

Executive Team Leader GM and Food Sales (Assistant Manager General Merchandise & Grocery)- East Phoenix, AZ

• Location: 3931 S Gilbert Rd, Gilbert, AZ, US 85297-7004
• Type: Full-time
• Salary: $64,000 - $128,000 USD annually

Join our team at Target as an Executive Team Leader GM and Food Sales in East Phoenix, AZ. This role is pivotal in managing general merchandise and food sales, ensuring a guest-first culture.

Responsibilities

• Drive total store sales and understand your role in sales growth.
• Manage Food & Beverage, inbound, outbound, replenishment, inventory accuracy, presentation, pricing, and promotional signing processes for all GM areas of the store.
• Manage a team of experts in operations, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Enable efficient delivery to our guests by leading pick, pack, and ship fulfillment work.
• Develop a strategy and utilize workload planning tools to complete all scheduled workload ensuring you are guest ready at all times.
• Conduct regular check-ins with your team to ensure completion of tasks and workload.
• Manage all GM backroom and sales floor areas, review all reporting to identify gaps and develop a plan to resolve.
• Oversee GM Team Leaders workload planning including transitions, revisions, and sales plans for all GM areas.
• Drive fulfillment sales by leading the Fulfillment team to fulfill each order accurately and efficiently and deliver on each guest promise time.
• Drive a culture centered in food safety; train, validate, and coach the team to deliver proper execution on all food safety standards and cleaning routines.
• Lead an efficient operation to fund the sales culture.
• Oversee Food & Beverage Team Leader’s workload planning including transitions, revisions, sales plans, sampling, and promotions.
• Create a guest-obsessed culture that prioritizes the guest experience and delivers on store sales goals.
• Know and assess the competition; leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business and be the destination of choice for our guests.
• Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs (this includes early morning, evening, overnight shifts, and weekends).
• Manage a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, fresh, available, food safe, and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor with minimal disruption to the guest.
• Assess all GM and Food & Beverage backroom and sales floor areas, walk Food Beverage Standards to assess priorities in food and review GM/Food reporting to identify gaps and develop a plan to resolve.
• Plan, lead, and follow-up on organizational and operational change.
• Anticipate and identify changes in unique store trends.
• Develop and coach your team to elevate their skills and expertise.
• Establish a culture of accountability through clear expectations and performance management; actively develop, coach, and train your team; anticipate staffing needs, talent plan, and recruit – both long and short term.
• Provide service and a shopping experience that meets the needs of the guest.
• Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance; lead the team to work in the same way and hold others accountable to this commitment.
• As a key carrier, follow all safe and secure training and processes.
• Address store needs (emergency, regulatory visits, etc.).
• All other duties based on business needs.

Requirements

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong business acumen
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
• Manage conflict, lead, and hold others accountable
• Relate well with and interact with all levels of the organization
• Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial, and quantitative analysis
• Learn and adapt to current technology needs
• Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health benefits and programs
• 401(k) with matching contributions
• Employee discount
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Paid sick leave and paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

About the Company

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 by ensuring product is set, in-stock, accurately priced, and signed on the sales floor. The General Merchandise and Food Sales team leads inbound, outbound, replenishment, inventory accuracy, presentation, pricing, and promotional signing processes for all General Merchandise (GM) areas of the store. This team leads Food & Beverage and Food Service, providing a fresh and food-safe experience. Experts enable efficient delivery to our guests by owning pick, pack, and ship fulfillment work.

Creating a culture of joy

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We value diverse voices and approaches. We act with authenticity and respect. We create equitable experiences for all.

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Drive

We do what is right for Target, our team, and guests. We deliver results that matter. We continually learn by valuing progress over perfection.

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Target's leadership truly empowers personal and professional growth, fostering an environment where we care, grow, and win together.

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