Service & Engagement Team Leader - Ankeny, IA
Target
- Ankeny, IA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Knowledge of guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest first team culture
- Skills in guest engagement; problem solving and resolution
- Knowledge of retail business fundamentals including: department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies
- Skills in planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver service and sales goals
- Experience leading a team of hourly team members; including skills in interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating and retaining talent
- Demonstrate a service culture that prioritizes the guest service experience. Model, train and coach expectations to deliver the service standard.
- Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias
- Lead a team of passionate and knowledgeable Guest Advocates and Front of Store Attendants who strive to exceed guest service expectations by focusing on decreasing wait time, friendly guest interaction and service recovery
- Understand sales goals, plan and execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on store sales goals and guest engagement
- Be a champion of physical and digital offerings to ensure 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 Target RedCard and Wallet)
- Lead and follow-up on training completion, checking for understanding and supporting continuous education opportunities to drive proficiencies for all front of store experiences
- Engage in consistent, meaningful development conversations throughout the critical touch points within the Guest Advocate and Front of Store Attendant career path
- Personalize recognition and appreciation to reinforce critical guest service behaviors and promote a positive team and guest centric culture
- Lead a culture of accountability through clear expectations and performance management (listen, observe, recognize and coach) on critical Service and Engagement behaviors
- Understand business reporting and guest insights to understand, troubleshoot and follow-up on opportunity areas
- Quickly respond to any negative guest shopping experience by de-escalating the situation and ensuring your team understands and feels supported to make things right for the guest
- Create intra-day workload optimization plans for your team
- Assess the front of store experience and anticipate and/or react with urgency to any scheduling needs based on fluctuations in guest traffic and sales
- Expect and enable your team to stay up-to-date on upcoming major promotions, brand launches and events
- Evaluate and recommend candidates for open positions and develop a guest-centric team
- Close knowledge and skill gaps through training and experiences
- Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs (this includes early morning, evening, overnight shifts and weekends)
- Utilize guest survey reporting tools to drive change in key areas with the greatest impact on guest experience; and use guest feedback to coach/recognize teams
- Expect and enable team members to deliver orders efficiently and accurately to digital guests
- Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; lead team to work in the same way and hold others accountable to this commitment
- Lead and create a safety advocacy culture by understanding how safety impacts your role and that of your team, identifying and correcting hazards, and holding team accountable to working in a safe manner to benefit themselves and others
- If applicable, as a key carrier, follow all safe and secure training and processes
- Address store needs (emergency, regulatory visits, etc.)
- Support guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up (OPU) and Drive-up (DU) and maintain a compliance culture while executing those duties, such as compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage laws.
- All other duties based on business needs
- Working in a fun and energetic environment makes you excited…. We work efficiently and as a team to deliver for our guests
- Providing service to our guests that makes them say I LOVE TARGET! excites you…. That’s why we love working at Target
- You enjoy interacting with people all day and making things easy for others…. Interacting with guests, solving concerns and making the guests day better is core of what we do
- You aren’t looking for Monday thru Friday job where you are at a computer all day… We are busy all day (especially on the weekends), making it easy for the guest to feel welcomed, inspired and rewarded
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be at least 18 years of age or older
- Previous retail experience preferred, but not required
- Lead and hold others accountable
- Learn and adapt to current technology needs
- Work independently and as part of a team
- Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently and with a team
- Welcoming and helpful attitude
- Effective communication skills
- Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues
- Interpret instructions, reports and information
- Accurately handle cash register operations and cash transactions
- Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 15 pounds and occasionally lifting or moving merchandise up to 40 pounds
- Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays) and regular attendance necessary