cake decorator

Sam's West • Peoria, AZ

11d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Cake Decorator, you will drive member service in your 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. This role involves planning bakery productions, ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of decorative designs, and working with various products to create decorative elements on bakery items. You will also be responsible for adhering to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management, as well as operating, maintaining, and sanitizing equipment. Additionally, you will leverage digital tools to drive sales and improve the shopping experience, and take ownership of the bakery area by ensuring quality, date control, and waste elimination. You will also assist members with purchasing decisions and resolve concerns. As a brand advocate, you will model high-quality service and products, interact with associates to understand roadblocks, and assist in training and mentoring. You will also comply with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity, and complete work assignments by using policies, data, and resources, while collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners. You will also 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 their contributions and accomplishments. You will maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, and support Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us. You will act in a selfless manner and be consistently 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 for all stakeholders. 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.
• I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position.

Nice To Haves

• Cake Decorating

Responsibilities

• Be a Team Member: 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.
• Be an Expert: 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, and demonstrating understanding of product and layout execution.
• Be a Techie: 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.
• Be an Owner: Drives the performance of the bakery area ensuring quality and date control standards, eliminating waste, preparing for seasonal events that impact the bakery volume (e.g., holidays, graduations, family events), identifying member needs, assisting members with purchasing decisions, and resolving member issues and concerns.
• Be a Talent Ambassador: 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.
• Respect the Individual: 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.
• Respect the Individual: Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
• Respect the Individual: Strengthens the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others, recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
• Act with Integrity: 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 Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us.
• Act with Integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer first.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Makes decisions based on reliable information, balances short and long-term priorities, and considers how own work impacts the teams ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.
• Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, and demonstrates courage and resilience.
• Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and 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: No Education Listed