Specialty Sales Team Leader - Denver Northfield Blvd, CO

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 BEAUTY 

Beauty at Target is more than a shopping destination; it is an approachable, inspiring experience that helps every guest feel confident, discover something new, and express themselves through beauty. Store teams supporting Beauty bring energy, expertise, and personalized service to every interaction, creating an environment that feels welcoming, inclusive, trend-relevant, and easy to shop. Whether supporting a guest with everyday essentials, introducing new products and routines, or helping build complete beauty solutions, we deliver experiences that build trust, loyalty, and lasting guest connection. 

As a Beauty Team Leader, you play a critical role in bringing this experience to life through strong team development, operational excellence, and a guest-first mindset. By leading with passion, coaching meaningful guest engagement, and creating discovery-driven experiences, they help position Target as a trusted and inspiring beauty destination. Teams in Core Beauty and Beauty Studio prioritize guest experience while blending the completion of tasks to ensure products are available, easy to shop, and maintained on the sales floor and in the backroom. 

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

• Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest-first culture on your team, including consultations, personalized shopping techniques and selling tactics 

• Retail business fundamentals, including department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies 

• Planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver on sales goals 

• Leading a team of hourly team members, including skills in interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating and retaining talent 

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

• Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience. 

• Ensures every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operations. 

• Actively observes and provides feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments. 

• Understand elevated service standards in Beauty Studio at Target, and partner with your leader and field leaders to leverage their Beauty Studio expertise to model and maintain expectations. 

• Model and instill in your team behaviors around guest engagement, balancing task and service, promoting loyalty programs, and driving sales. 

• Reviews area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, takes action to improve, and aligns team on the right behaviors and execution, celebrates wins, drives results that deliver outcomes and elevates the guest experience. 

• Understand sales goals, plan and execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, pricing workload, changes to sales floor merchandise displays, events and promotions. 

• Assign daily tasks to TMs based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities set by your direct leader. 

• Lead a team that provides a seamless experience for guests across all Beauty areas. 

• Lead and demonstrate a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions. 

• Support your direct leader to develop a team of consultants and advisors who are knowledgeable and passionate about Beauty by staying current on brands, trends and promotions, and hold them accountable to expectations. 

• Evaluate and recommend candidates for open positions to develop a guest-centric team by participating in team hiring and onboarding processes. 

• Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences. 

• Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; hold the team accountable to work in the same way. 

• Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards, holding team accountable to following safety expectations, assisting with incident response, and reporting/investigating injuries timely and accurately.  

• Model the execution of physical security processes in order to enhance the instore security culture. 

• Support merchandise protection strategies across the total store, including ordering, storage and application as directed by best practices. 

• If applicable, as a key carrier, follow all safe and secure training and processes. 

• Occasionally assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for the store during assigned shifts based on store needs 

• Address all store emergency and compliance needs. 

• All other duties based on business needs. 

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 Beauty Lead. But, there are a few things you need from the get-go: 

• High school diploma or equivalent 

• Age 18 years of age or older 

• Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes 

• Previous retail experience preferred, but not required 

• 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 

• 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 

• 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)  

• 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 15 pounds and occasionally lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others  

• Variable work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); reliable and prompt attendance necessary