Guest Experience Leader: Service & Engagement Exec

Target; St. Charles (IL); On-site; USD 64,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Employee discount

Job summary

Target is seeking a Service & Engagement Executive Team Leader to lead guest-focused service and store operations in a dynamic environment. You will build and mentor a team, drive store sales, and plan staffing to meet peak traffic while delivering exceptional guest experiences.

The role emphasizes leadership, problem resolution, and coaching across leaders and hourly teammates, with a strong focus on guest satisfaction, promotions, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong business acumen.
• 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 and with a team.

Responsibilities

• Build a team of passionate and knowledgeable Guest Advocates and Service and Engagement Leaders who strive to exceed guest service expectations by focusing on decreasing wait time, friendly guest interaction and service recovery
• Drive total store sales, understand your role in sales growth and how your departments and team contribute to and impacts total store profitability
• Anticipate staffing needs, talent plan and recruit – both long and short term
• Manage leaders to follow-up on training completion, check for understanding and provide continuous education opportunities to drive proficiencies for all front of store experiences
• Engage in consistent and meaningful development conversations throughout the critical touch points within Service and Engagement Team leader career path
• Personalize recognition and appreciation to reinforce critical guest service behaviors and promote a positive team and guest centric culture
• Establish 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
• Own schedules that follow the scheduling allocation and guidelines to support peak traffic times, key holiday events and weekends
• Manage the store experience by anticipating and/or reacting with urgency to staffing or scheduling needs based on fluctuations in guest traffic and sales
• Ensure Team Leader schedules support a frictionless experience during guest peak traffic times for all shopping preferences: checklanes, self-checkout (SCO), Order Pick-up (OPU), drive up (DU).
• Be the 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)
• Expect and enable your team to stay up-to-date on upcoming major promotions, brand launches and events
• 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.
• Lead the teram to deliver an efficient and hassle free guest pick up experience
• Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs (this includes early morning, evening and weekends)
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; lead 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

Skills

Guest engagement

Team leadership

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

4 year degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Target is seeking a Service & Engagement Executive Team Leader to lead guest-focused service and store operations in a dynamic environment. You will build and mentor a team, drive store sales, and plan staffing to meet peak traffic while delivering exceptional guest experiences.

The role emphasizes leadership, problem resolution, and coaching across leaders and hourly teammates, with a strong focus on guest satisfaction, promotions, and operational excellence.