Cake Decorator

Sam's East•Huntsville, AL

7h•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 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, 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. 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, and help attract the best talent. 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 recognize others' contributions and accomplishments. You will maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, model the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, and hold yourself and others accountable. You will 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 teams 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.
Must successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period.

Nice To Haves

Cake Decorating experience.

Responsibilities

Drive member service in the bakery area.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and educate other associates on tools, tasks, and resources.
Plan bakery productions, ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of decorative designs.
Follow recipe measurement instructions and work with various decorating tools to create designs on bakery items.
Ensure adherence to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management.
Operate, maintain, and sanitize equipment.
Leverage digital tools to drive sales and improve the shopping experience.
Utilize hand-held technology for business decisions related to production, merchandise ordering, training, and product quality.
Drive the performance of the bakery area, ensuring quality and date control standards.
Eliminate waste and prepare for seasonal events impacting bakery volume.
Identify member needs and assist members with purchasing decisions.
Resolve member issues and concerns.
Act as a brand advocate, modeling high-quality service and products.
Interact with associates to understand roadblocks and assist in training and development.
Comply with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity.
Complete work assignments and priorities, collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and business partners.
Adapt to and learn from change, difficulties, and feedback.
Embrace differences and create a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected.
Work as a team, build strong relationships, and communicate with impact, energy, and positivity.
Help, develop, and mentor others, recognizing contributions and accomplishments.
Maintain and promote high standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance.
Support Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company.
Act in a selfless, humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent manner.
Deliver results while putting the customer first.
Make decisions based on reliable information and balance priorities.
Display curiosity, a desire to learn, and take calculated risks.
Drive continuous improvements and support others through change.

Benefits

Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement leave
Jury duty leave
Voting leave
PPTO (Paid Public Time Off)
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption expense reimbursement
Surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U (company-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)