Head of Food Production

The starting pay range for this position per hour is $23.75 - $25.75. The full pay range for this position per hour is $23.75 - $40.40.

These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at

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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, ensuring price accuracy and promotional signing processes for all Food & Beverage areas of the store.

At Target, we believe in our leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Food & Beverage Team Leader can provide you with the skills and experience of: Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest-first and freshness culture on your team.

Food & Beverage business fundamentals, including department sales trends, freshness, food safety and quality, inventory management, item reliability, guest shopping patterns and pricing and promotions strategies.

Planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support Food & Beverage priorities and deliver sales goals.

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

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

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

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, changes to salesfloor merchandise displays, sampling and promotions.

With guidance from your direct leader, lead a guest-focused, efficient Food & Beverage team that strives to deliver the Food & Beverage standards by completing the Food & Beverage Daily Standards walk.

Assess backroom and sales floor areas of Food & Beverage and Food Service on a daily basis by walking the Target Food & Beverage Standards. Be a partner to the store leadership team through communication and collaboration to influence current sales performance and workload deliverables, leverage check-in and check-outs as daily connection points.

Maintain a fresh, full and food safe area during all operating hours leveraging strong inventory management, area routines and Food Safety policies and procedures.

Validate and follow-up on team members’ progress against their assigned prioritized workload tasks, production area routines, and application of best practices.

help close skill gaps through development, coaching, training, and team interactions.

Develop and maintain partnerships with vendors to ensure clear expectations are established, brand standards (such as delivery and merchandising) are being met and areas are reliably in-stock. Support your leader in the hiring and onboarding process of new team members. 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.

Support Become a subject matter expert in federal, state and local adult beverage laws as they apply to your business and protect the store’s liquor license (if applicable).

Lead your team to uphold and maintain all Starbucks and Pizza Hut Brand Standards and foster a productive partnership with your Starbucks district manager, following up on key takeaways from their time in your store (if applicable).

In addition to Food Safety Manager Certification, complete all Starbucks and/or Pizza Hut training requirements or certifications (if applicable).

Foster a productive relationship with your Starbucks district manager DM (if applicable), attend required in-store planning and business meetings and follow-up on key takeaways from their time in your store.

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

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.

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 Food & Beverage Team Leader. Must be at least 18 years old or older

High school diploma or equivalent

Previous retail and/or food experience preferred, but not required

Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business

Communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed

Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently

About 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

Accurately handle cash register operations as needed

Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); Although the role is full-time, it does not come with a guarantee of 40 hours each week. Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shifts (shift length may vary)

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.

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