Store Leadership Story: Momin

Soft instrumental music plays. In a Target store, two employees chat together as they walk down aisles. They both wear glasses and employee name badges, and one wears a t-shirt while the other wears a red and white jacket with a Target Bullseye on the front. 

 

MOMIN: I think at the heart of it all, as a leader of people, I get the opportunity to help other people with their career paths, and being a store director is so fun because you get to impact all the way to the team member level and change their lives.  

 

The man in the jacket interviews, sitting in a cozy modern living room with an abstract painting taking up one wall. White text appears beside him. 

 

ONSCREEN TEXT: Momin 

Store Director 

 

The employee in the t-shirt smiles and a close up shows his name badge: Johao.  

 

MOMIN: You get to help them have a career, find their personality find their voice.  

 

He and Johao walk down an aisle side by side, revealing that the back of Momin’s jacket reads ‘Target’ in swirling script. Then he sits for the interview. 

 

MOMIN: Being a diverse leader, I'm very cognizant of the role that diversity and representation has in the workplace and outside. I'm a first generation individual, and I make it a point to really ensure that I'm creating a community around myself for people who look and sound like me, but also do it for other people who may not have that.  

 

In the Target store’s accessory section, Momin gestures to something and he and Johao smile. Later Johao uses his hands for emphasis as they pass by home goods. 

 

MOMIN: I really, at Target, get the opportunity to do things, interact with different organizations and cohorts that fill my cup so that I can show up and do the same for my team and create the sense of community for them.  

 

In the store, he circles up with other employees in red shirts and name badges. One woman wears a shirt reading: ask me about Target circle. They chat and smile near an elevator.  

 

MOMIN: As a Target store director. You're running a business, but you're also being a part of the community, and there is a right when you're part of that community, to ensure that you're doing more than just benefiting from a profit point of view: that you're investing in that community, helping them out.  

 

He and Johao talk near the store’s checkout. The gray floor gleams and circular fluorescent lights glow overhead. Costumers ride an escalator down, near the elevator where the team met. 

 

MOMIN: I have the chance within my role to be district community captain for the cohort of like 8 to 9 stores within my district, and it's really a unique opportunity where I get to use the machine of Target and all the resources that Target has to help different organizations within the community that need that support. Most recently is our local food shelf. We already engage with them, where we are able to donate our store products that have gone out of date, where the community members can go to that food shelf and get them.  

 

He gestures with his hands for emphasis. An employee adds a bag of grapes to a produce display. Then an employee helps a woman get a bag of green grapes. She smiles. The employee helps stack bags of potatoes nearby. 

 

MOMIN: We also use that food shelf as a way that we actually volunteer our time as a store to ensure that we're also physically there to show up for the community, and show that we're part of the people that we’re working with.  

 

On a red background a white Bullseye appears with text below it. 

 

ONSCREEN TEXT:

#TeamTarget