Store Director (Store Manager) - Columbus Area

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 STORE LEADERSHIP
You lead a team that has one purpose: to help all families discover the joy of everyday life.
You develop leaders who care about their teams, who care about their guests and each other. You lead a team
of experts, advocates, and consultants that are passionate about making sure guests get what they came for
(plus a little more) every time they shop at their store. You take accountability in running a profitable growth
business.
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: understanding sales trends, inventory management, guest
shopping patterns and satisfaction, pricing and promotions strategies and specialty businesses
• Setting and planning total store quarterly business priorities and managing a team to deliver on sales goals
• 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
• 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.
• Model creating a welcoming experience by greeting guests as you are working.
• Demonstrate how to engage with guests when assistance is needed; engage with guests in a welcoming
way and help solve their specific needs.
• Lead by thanking guests and let them know we’re happy they chose to shop at Target.
• 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
• Build and execute plans to run an efficient operation to fund future growth.
• Lead and create a culture of executing all best practices by understanding 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 teaming 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 support partners to help you solve problems and drive continuous operational improvement.
• 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 own total store accountability to 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
• Addressing all store emergency and compliance needs
• 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 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 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 taskswithin 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

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