(USA) Cake Decorator

Walmart • Fort Smith, AR

1d • 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 decorating tools to create designs on bakery items. You will also be responsible for adhering to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management. Additionally, you will operate, maintain, and sanitize equipment, and leverage digital tools to drive sales and improve the shopping experience. You will also be responsible for driving the performance of the bakery area, ensuring quality and date control, eliminating waste, and preparing for seasonal events. Identifying member needs, assisting with purchasing decisions, and resolving member issues are also key aspects of this role. You will act as a brand advocate, model high-quality service, and interact with associates to assist in training and development. You will also comply with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity. Completing work assignments and priorities, collaborating with managers and coworkers, and adapting to change are also expected.

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
• Plans the bakery productions ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of bakery decorative designs
• Follows recipe measurement instructions working 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 maintaining and sanitizing equipment
• 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
• Drives the performance of the bakery area ensuring quality and date control standards eliminating waste
• Prepares for seasonal events that impact the bakery volume for example holidays graduations family events
• Identifies member needs assisting members with purchasing decisions and resolving member issues and concerns
• Acts as 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 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
• Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies data and resources
• Collaborates with managers coworkers customers and other business partners identifying priorities deadlines and expectations
• Carries out tasks communicating progress and information
• Determines and recommends 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

• 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