Food & Beverage Expert

Starting Hourly Rate / Salario por Hora Inicial: $16.75 USD per hour

ALL ABOUT TARGET

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ALL ABOUT FOOD & BEVERAGE

The Food & Beverage team enables a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is fresh, in stock, available and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. They are experts of operations, process and efficiency. This team leads food and food services including replenishment, inventory accuracy, food safety, presentation, pricing and promotional signing processes for all Food & Beverage areas of the store.

At Target, we believe in our team members having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Food & Beverage Expert can provide you with the skills and experiences of:

• Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest-first and freshness culture in Food & Beverage

• Food & Beverage business fundamentals, including sales trends, inventory, quality and freshness management, and guest shopping patterns

• Understanding food seasonality, freshness and quality, food safety standards and routines, and merchandising

• Working with a dynamic and fast-paced team focused on the guest experience and routinely executing the Food & Beverage Standards and best practices through individual Assignment Sheets and task execution.

As a Food & Beverage Expert, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:

• Create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience by delivering on the following commitments:

• Greet:

• 10ft: be friendly – smile, make eye contact, or wave

• 4ft: greet the guest, smile and initiate a warm, helpful interaction

• Help guests find what they need and/or resolve issues to ensure a smooth, easy shopping experience

• End every guest transaction with a sincere thank you

• Actively support team efforts and assist peers in other areas while maintaining a positive and respectful attitude

• Adjust to business and guest needs to deliver an easy and inspiring guest experience

• Deliver an exceptional guest experience, providing a fresh and full shopping experience during all hours of operations, prioritizing the guest’s needs over task.

• Uphold and maintain the execution of the Food & Beverage Standards.

• Execute Food & Beverage processes including food deliveries, replenishment, straightening merchandise, in-stocks routines, data accuracy, culling, rotation, cleaning, signing and organizing and storing reserve product.

• Follow all food safety requirements as outlined in Target’s policies and procedures.

• Use sampling and suggestive selling to promote products and increase sales.

• Work with vendors to proactively set, maintain and make planned changes to salesfloor merchandise displays and to keep organized backroom space.

• Locate and identify damaged, recalled or expired items and process according to Target’s policies and procedures.

• Execute all federal, state and local adult beverage laws as they apply to your business.

• Appropriately use and care for in-store and personal protective equipment; follow equipment control guidelines.

• Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance.

• Work in a safe manner at all times; comply with all safety policies, best practices, and training; report hazards and correct where possible.

• 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 laws.

• 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 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 Food & Beverage Expert. But, there are a few skills you should have from the get-go:

• Must be at least 18 years of age or older (Bakery Only)

• Previous food or grocery experience preferred, but not required

• Welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members

• Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed

• Work both independently and with a team

• Resolve guest questions quickly on the spot

• Attention to detail and follow multi-step processes

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

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 if needed.

• Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others.

• Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); come to work when scheduled, work scheduled shifts and take required meal and rest breaks

• Ability to work in environments that will include refrigeration and freezer temperatures and conditions; where common allergens may also be handled or present.

• Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing certain job duties, including but not limited to Drive-Ups, carryout, etc.

• Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shifts (shift length may vary)

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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