At Target, we believe in our leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Store Director can provide you with the skills and experience of:
Managing a large team of hourly team members and leaders as well as leaders of leaders
Recruiting, selecting, talent management and talent planning across all departments of the store
Guest service fundamentals and experience building and leading a guest-first culture across the store
Retail business financials (e.g. payroll, profit and loss) and driving sales growth
Creating store-specific strategies and managing your team to deliver results
Retail business fundamentals for total store, including understanding sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns and satisfaction, pricing and promotions strategies and specialty businesses; teach and train your leaders on the same business acumen
Setting and planning total store quarterly business priorities and managing a team to meet sales goals
Building partnerships with and leveraging key partners (e.g. Assets Protection, Food & Beverage, Human Resources) to support store performance and business growth
Making business decisions by assessing market competition, understanding guest insights and feedback
As a Store Director, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:
Cultivate a guest-centric and engaged team
Consistently delivers guest experience commitments
Leads with confidence, care and purpose to drive a guest obsessed culture that relentlessly delivers the guest experience standard for Target’s brand promise.
Holds direct reports accountable to deliver exceptional guest experience through consistent operations,
accountability, team development, training and recognition.
Celebrates wins, aligns team, and prioritizes actions that drive results and elevate the guest experience.
Actively engages with their community to represent our brand and build connections in the communities
they serve
Lead a talent culture through taking an active role in the onboarding, development and growth of your
leaders.
Drive accountability through clear expectations and consistent performance management.
In partnership with HR, create and deliver on sustainable and equitable talent strategies to fuel career progression and continued team growth.
Be approachable and available for your team, lead a culture where leaders and team members are able to share and issues are quickly resolved.
Recruit, hire and retain a passionate team for area specific knowledge and expertise.
Oversee the scheduling process to ensure schedules meet the needs of your business, while providing a consistent guest experience and aligning with team member availability and desired hours.
Own and implement leadership schedules that align to guest and business needs (including weekends, mornings, evenings, overnight and appropriate seasonal adjustments).
Demonstrate and promote inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
Invest in and follow up on personal and team training to enhance skills and capabilities, follow up to consistently achieve timely completion of required training.
Drive a guest-obsessed culture balancing the in-store and digital guest to deliver on store sales goals and operational goals while ensuring your team can inform, educate and promote the suite of benefits, features
and offerings that reward our guest and/or enhance their shopping experience (including the Target App, Target Circle Card, Target Circle, Drive Up, Order Pick Up and Circle 360 same day delivery).
Own your store’s overall business to drive efficiency, safety and grow sales
Reviews store guest, financial, and team metrics to identify gaps and understand behaviors and takes
action to improve
Build and execute plans to run an efficient operation to fund future growth.
Lead and create a culture of executing all best practices; understand where operational shortage can occur
throughout the building, build routines and action plans to resolve opportunities, and establish clear goals
and expectations to hold team accountable.
Leverage your reports (financial, operational, safety, food safety, team and guest) to understand the
business and make decisions.
Lead a culture of financial accountability through following your sales trends, leadership headcount
guideline, payroll management and hourly overtime guidance and teaching each team how to understand
their role in driving sales growth and total store profitability.
Know and assess the competition; leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business and be the
destination of choice for our guests.
Build relationships that are important to the store’s community to address the most pressing local needs.
Leverage field partners’ expertise and guidance to help you solve problems, collaborate on store
opportunities and wins to lead your team to continuous operational improvement and driving business
objectives.
Set clear priorities for the team through balancing competing priorities and demands.
Own the safety culture and performance for the store through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors,
identifying and correcting hazards, assisting with incident response, validating investigations effectively
drive sustainable solutions, and owning total store accountability to team and guest safety.
Validate an instore security culture by focusing on deterrence, response and resolution in order to improve
physical security processes.
Validate that merchandise protection strategies across the total store are being executed according to best
practices.
As a key carrier, follow all safe and secure training and processes.
Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
Regularly assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for
the store during assigned shifts
Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety (including food safety) and compliance; Lead and
hold the team accountable to work in the same way.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
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 variable work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights,
weekends, holidays, closing shifts 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 Store Director. But there are a few skills you should have from
the get-go
4-year degree or equivalent experience
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Team leadership and engagement
Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial and quantitative analysis
Manage conflict and lead and hold others accountable
Relate well with and interact with all levels of the organization
Welcoming and helpful attitude
Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently
Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks
within established timeframes
Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other
technology equipment as directed
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 without additional assistance from others
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)
Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays) and reliable and prompt attendance
necessary
Benefits Eligibility
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