Store Executive Intern (Store Leadership Intern) –Bakersfield, California (Starting Summer 2025)

The pay range per hour is $25.75- $26.75.
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. 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 https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

ALL ABOUT TARGET

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work, and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.

ALL ABOUT THE STORES EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INTERNSHIP
Experience firsthand what it’s like to lead a retail team within a Target store. This internship is a paid 40 hr/week, hands-on training program to develop and prepare for your store leadership. As a Stores Executive Intern, you will get a valuable realistic preview of the Executive Team Leader role (Assistant Store Manager) over a defined period of time. Within this store management internship, you will work closely with other managers and team members to develop an understanding of how Target’s retail business works and what it takes to excel in a management role. You will be introduced to multiple areas of the store’s business, but the majority of your time will be spent leading amongst the team, identifying and working towards store priorities, and delivering great guest service.  

This program is designed to teach individuals how to lead within a retail store amongst the store team:

• You’ll learn about how to drive guest experience and how to impact your store’s financial, team, and operational performance.
• You’ll work alongside a mentor and learn how they effectively lead their department within the store.
• You will have the opportunity to step into leading your Mentors departments- of course, we will be there to guide you and help you learn along the way! 
• You will spend your days learning to lead and motivate a team, drive sales results, merchandise products, and provide an exceptional experience for our guests.
• Your development will be a top priority of ours, and to ensure you’re feeling supported, you can expect ongoing developmental conversations.
• While you’ll lead and support the execution of daily operations by working beside your team members, your leadership will build the culture and guide your team to grow and achieve goals.

Hear more from past Interns, Mentors, and Managers here.

At Target, we believe in our leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The goal of the Stores Executive 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 experience building and managing 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, team leaders and creating business strategies and goals
• Recruiting, selecting and talent management of hourly team members and leaders

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