(USA) Cake Decorator

Walmart•Denver, CO

4d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Cake Decorator at Sam's Club, you will play a crucial role in driving member service within the bakery area, ensuring that members receive high-quality, attractively decorated bakery items. This position requires collaboration with other associates to meet overall club expectations and deliver value to members. Key aspects of the role include planning bakery production, maintaining consistency in quality and decorative designs, following precise recipe instructions, and utilizing various decorating tools such as bags, tips, and nozzles to create decorative flowers and lettering. You will be responsible for adhering to strict food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management. The role also involves operating, maintaining, and sanitizing equipment, as well as understanding product and layout execution. You will leverage digital tools and handheld technology to make business decisions related to production, merchandise ordering, training, and product quality, with the member in mind, and adapt to new tools while encouraging others to use them. Furthermore, you will be an 'Owner' by driving the performance of the bakery, ensuring quality and date control standards, minimizing waste, and preparing for seasonal events that impact bakery volume, such as holidays, graduations, and family events. This role also involves identifying member needs, assisting with purchasing decisions, and resolving member issues and concerns. As a 'Talent Ambassador', you will advocate for the brand, value the members' experience in the Bakery, model high-quality service and products, and interact with associates to understand roadblocks, assisting in training, developing, influencing, and inspiring them to work in a respectful, supportive, and team-oriented style. You are expected to comply with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity, complete work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources, and collaborate with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners. The company values respect for individuals, teamwork, integrity, customer-first service, and a drive for excellence, encouraging curiosity, calculated risks, and 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

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
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 coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting leave
Short-term disability
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)