Food & Beverage Team Leader

Food & Beverage Team Leader

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.

The Food & Beverage team enables a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is fresh, in stock, available and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. They are experts of operations, process and efficiency. This team leads food and food services including replenishment, inventory accuracy, food safety, presentation, ensuring price accuracy and promotional signing processes for all Food & Beverage areas of the store.

At Target, we believe in our leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Food & Beverage Team Leader can provide you with the skills and experience of:

• Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest first culture on your team
• Food & Beverage business fundamentals: department sales trends, freshness and quality, inventory management, 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, developing, coaching, evaluating and retaining talent

As a Food & Beverage Team Leader, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:

• Understand sales goals, plan and execute 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
• Assess backroom and sales floor areas of Food & Beverage and Food Service (where applicable) on a daily basis by walking the Target Food & Beverage Standards. Prioritize your business needs and identify workload tasks for the team; review reporting to identify business trends for follow-up.
• At the guidance of your direct leader, establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.
• Maintain a fresh, full and food safe area during all operating hours leveraging strong inventory management, area routines and Food Safety policies and procedures.
• Deliver the Food & Beverage Standards.
• Validate and follow up on team members' progress against their assigned prioritized workload tasks, production area routines, and application of best practices.
• Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs (this includes early morning, evening, overnight shifts and weekends).

This may be the right job for you if:

• 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, highly active and physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to success.
• You are open to working a flexible work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays and other peak shopping times).

The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a Food & Beverage Team Leader. But, there are a few things you need from the get-go:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Age 18 or older
• Previous retail and/or food experience preferred, but not required
• Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business
• Ability to: 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, capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes, welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members, effective communication skills

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:

• 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 44 pounds
• Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); reliable and prompt and regular attendance necessary
• Ability to work in an environment that could range from 34F to -10F as needed
• Ability to work in spaces where common allergens may be handled or present
• Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing certain job duties including but not limited to Drive-Up, carryout, etc.
• Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift (shift length may vary).