(USA) Cake Decorator

Walmart • Lynchburg, VA

23h • $19 - $27 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Cake Decorator, you will drive member service in your bakery area to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will work collaboratively with other associates to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations. You will be responsible for planning bakery productions, ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of bakery decorative designs, following recipe measurement instructions, and working with a variety of products to create decorative flowers and lettering on bakery items. You will also ensure adherence to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management, while operating, maintaining, and sanitizing equipment. Additionally, you will leverage digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement, and adapt to new tools and encourage others to use them. You will drive the performance of the bakery area, ensuring quality and date control standards, eliminating waste, and preparing for seasonal events. You will also identify member needs, assist members with purchasing decisions, and resolve member issues and concerns. As a brand advocate, you will model high-quality service and products, interact with associates to understand roadblocks, and assist in training, developing, influencing, and inspiring them. You will comply with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity, and complete work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources. You will embrace differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creating a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging. You will work as a team, build strong and trusting relationships, and communicate with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence. You will strengthen the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others, and recognizing others' contributions and accomplishments. You will maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, and act in a selfless manner, being humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent. You will deliver results while putting the customer first, make decisions based on reliable information, balance short and long-term priorities, and consider how your work impacts the team's ability to deliver on our purpose. You will display curiosity and a desire to learn, take calculated risks, and demonstrate courage and resilience. You will drive continuous improvements, be open to and use new technologies and skills, and support others through change.

Requirements

• 6 months' experience in fresh production area.
• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Must be able to successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period.

Nice To Haves

• Cake Decorating

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with cross functional teams and helps educate other associates on tools tasks and resources
• Communicates and develops interpersonal skills for providing customer service
• Is flexible to the needs of the business
• Maintains instock levels and controlling shrinkage
• Plans the bakery productions ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of bakery decorative designs
• Follows recipe measurement instructions
• Works with a variety of products for example decorating bags tips nozzles to create decorative flowers and lettering on bakery items
• Ensures adherence to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management
• Operates, maintains, and sanitizes equipment
• Demonstrates understanding of product and layout execution
• Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement
• Utilizes hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, merchandise ordering, training, and product quality with the member in mind
• Adapts to new tools and encouraging others to use them
• Drives the performance of the bakery area ensuring quality and date control standards
• Eliminates waste
• Prepares for seasonal events that impact the bakery volume for example holidays, graduations, family events
• Identifies member needs
• Assists members with purchasing decisions
• Resolves member issues and concerns
• Is a brand advocate by valuing the members experience in Bakery and modeling high quality service and products
• Interacts with associates to understand the roadblocks and assisting in training, developing, influencing, and inspiring them
• Works in a style that is respectful, supportive, and team oriented
• Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans
• Uses the Open Door Policy and applies these in executing business processes and practices
• Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources
• Collaborates with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners
• Identifies priorities, deadlines, and expectations
• Carries out tasks, communicating progress and information
• Determines and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities
• Adapts to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback
• Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences
• Creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging
• Creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform
• Helps to attract the best talent
• Works as a team
• Builds strong and trusting relationships
• Communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence
• Strengthens the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others
• Recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance
• Models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture
• Holds oneself and others accountable
• Supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us
• Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent
• Delivers results while putting the customer first
• Makes decisions based on reliable information
• Balances short and long-term priorities
• Considers how own work impacts the teams ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders
• Displays curiosity and a desire to learn
• Takes calculated risks and demonstrates courage and resilience
• Drives continuous improvements
• Is open to and uses new technologies and skills
• Supports others through change

Benefits

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees