(USA) Cake Decorator

Walmart•Shreveport, LA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Cake Decorator, you will be responsible for driving member service in the bakery area, ensuring members receive high-quality products. This role involves collaborating with other associates, maintaining in-stock levels, and controlling shrinkage. You will be an expert in bakery production, ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of decorative designs, following recipes, and working with various decorating tools. Adherence to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management is crucial. You will also operate, maintain, and sanitize equipment, and understand product and layout execution. The position requires leveraging digital tools to enhance sales, improve the shopping experience, and boost associate engagement, using handheld technology for business decisions related to production, ordering, training, and product quality. You will drive the bakery area's performance by ensuring quality and date control, eliminating waste, and preparing for seasonal events. Additionally, you will identify member needs, assist with purchasing decisions, and resolve concerns. As a talent ambassador, you will advocate for the brand, model high-quality service, and help train, develop, and inspire associates. The role also involves complying with company policies, completing work assignments, embracing diversity, fostering teamwork, maintaining integrity, serving customers, and striving for continuous improvement.

Requirements

6 months' experience in fresh production area
Must be 18 years of age or older
Successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position

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
Being flexible to the needs of the business
Maintaining instock levels and controlling shrinkage
Plans the bakery productions ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of bakery decorative designs
Following recipe measurement instructions
Working with a variety of products for example decorating bags tips nozzles to create decorative flowers and lettering on bakery items
Ensuring adherence to food safety standards sanitation guidelines cold chain compliance and inventory management
Operating maintaining and sanitizing equipment
Demonstrating understanding of product and layout execution
Leverages digital tools to drive sales improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement
Utilizing hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production merchandise ordering training and product quality with the member in mind
Adapting to new tools and encouraging others to use them
Drives the performance of the bakery area ensuring quality and date control standards
Eliminating waste
Preparing for seasonal events that impact the bakery volume for example holidays graduations family events
Identifying member needs
Assisting members with purchasing decisions and resolving member issues and concerns
Being a brand advocate by valuing the members experience in Bakery and modeling high quality service and products
Interacting with associates to understand the roadblocks and assisting in training developing influencing and inspiring them for working 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 using the Open Door Policy: and applying these in executing business processes and practices
Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies data and resources collaborating with managers coworkers customers and other business partners identifying priorities deadlines and expectations carrying out tasks communicating progress and information determining and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities and adapting 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 selfaware honest fair and transparent
Delivers results while putting the customer first
Makes decisions based reliable information balances short and longterm priorities and 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 and supports others through change

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Medical, vision and dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting
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 (company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities, covering tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates)