Store Executive Intern

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.

About the Stores Executive Leadership Internship

This internship gives you a firsthand look at what it's like to lead a retail team in a Target store. It's a paid, 40-hour-per-week, hands-on training program designed to prepare you for store leadership. As a Stores Executive Intern, you'll get a realistic preview of the Executive Team Leader role (Assistant Store Manager) over a defined period. You'll work closely with managers and team members to understand how Target's retail business operates and what it takes to succeed in a management role. You'll be introduced to multiple areas of the store's business, but most of your time will be spent leading the team, focusing on store priorities, and delivering great guest service.

This program is designed to teach you how to lead within a retail store, and you will:

• Learn how to drive guest experience and impact your store's financial, team, and operational performance.
• Work alongside a mentor and learn how they effectively lead their department.
• Have the opportunity to step into leading your mentor's departments (with guidance along the way).
• Spend your days learning to lead and motivate a team, drive sales results, merchandise products, and provide an exceptional guest experience.
• Have ongoing development conversations, as your development is a top priority.
• Lead and support daily operations by working with your team to build culture and achieve goals.

At Target, we believe in leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build skills for a career. The goal of this internship is to provide a realistic job preview of an ETL role. The role of a Stores Executive Intern can provide you with the skills and experience of:

• Guest service fundamentals and building a guest-first team culture across the store.
• Guest engagement, problem-solving, and resolution.
• Retail business fundamentals.
• Setting and planning department(s) monthly/quarterly workload to support business priorities and managing a team to deliver service and sales goals.
• Managing a team of hourly team members and team leaders while creating business strategies and goals.
• Recruiting, selecting, and talent management of hourly team members and leaders.

Typical Responsibilities

As a Stores Executive Intern, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will most likely include:

• Spending time on the salesfloor and backroom, leading team members and aligning the team on daily business priorities.
• Working alongside your Executive Team Lead (ETL) mentor and other leaders to understand their roles.
• Leading through daily priorities (stocking shelves, ensuring a safe and welcoming environment, helping build displays, etc.).
• Partnering with leaders on team member performance by teaching, coaching, training, and delivering timely feedback.
• Addressing team member concerns and removing hurdles to ensure smooth operations and goal attainment.
• Leading or presenting at daily huddles with the peer or leadership team.
• Planning daily goals and organizing plans within the building.
• Providing summaries of results and priorities to the peer or leadership team.
• Working with store leaders each day to set goals and expectations.
• Reviewing business reporting and guest insights to understand, troubleshoot, and follow up on opportunity areas.
• Delivering an exceptional guest experience by ensuring team members are knowledgeable and empowered.
• Providing new ideas and recommending solutions to business or team opportunities.
• Taking the initiative to learn how to be a Target leader by seeking growth and development opportunities.
• Committing to learning Target's expectations of leaders and using them to personally develop by asking questions and seeking feedback.
• Actively participating in internship program training activities, developmental opportunities, and events.
• Demonstrating a willingness to take strategic risks and take on new assignments.
• Demonstrating a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance.
• Working safely at all times, identifying and correcting hazards, and complying with all safety policies.
• Fostering an inclusive, equitable, safe, and secure culture.
• Carrying out principal duties and responsibilities by the department.
• Gaining an understanding of all business areas to develop business acumen.
• Creating a welcoming experience by greeting guests as you complete daily tasks.
• Engaging with guests in a welcoming way to help solve their specific needs.
• Thanking guests and letting them know we're happy they chose to shop at Target.
• All other duties based on business needs.

About You

This may be the right job for you if:

• You enjoy interacting with and helping others, including guests and fellow team members.
• You thrive in a fast-moving, highly active, and physically demanding role where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key.
• You are open to working a flexible schedule with varying hours, days, or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays, and other peak shopping times).

The good news is that we have amazing training to teach you how to be an effective leader in our stores. But there are a few things you need from the get-go:

• Previous retail experience preferred, but not required.
• Strong interest in working in retail, specifically within our stores in management.
• Leadership skills and team-oriented thinking.
• Ability to learn and adapt to current technology needs.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage workload and prioritize tasks independently.
• Welcoming and helpful attitude.
• Effective communication skills.

We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to be clear on a few more basics 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.
• Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners and other technology equipment as directed.
• Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends, holidays) and reliable and prompt attendance.