(USA) Cake Decorator

Sam's West • Tinley Park, IL

3d • 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 identifying member needs, assisting with purchasing decisions, and resolving member issues. The role also includes being a brand advocate, modeling high-quality service, and assisting in training and mentoring other associates. You will comply with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity. You will 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. Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creating a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging. Creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, and helps to attract the best talent. Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, and communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence. Strengthens the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others, and 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, and 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. Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent. Delivers results while putting the customer first. 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. 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.

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 if the position is received.

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.
• Is flexible to the needs of the business.
• Maintains instock levels and controls shrinkage.
• Plans the bakery productions ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of bakery decorative designs.
• Follows recipe measurement instructions.
• Works 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, maintains, and sanitizes equipment.
• Demonstrates understanding of product and layout execution.
• 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.
• Adapts to new tools and encourages others to use them.
• Drives the performance of the bakery area ensuring quality and date control standards.
• Eliminates waste.
• Prepares for seasonal events that impact the bakery volume (e.g., holidays, graduations, family events).
• Identifies member needs.
• Assists members with purchasing decisions and resolves member issues and concerns.
• Is 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 assists 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.
• Uses the Open Door Policy and applies these in executing business processes and practices.
• Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources.
• Collaborates with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners.
• Identifies priorities, deadlines, and expectations.
• Carries out tasks, communicates progress and information.
• Determines and recommends ways to address improvement opportunities.
• Adapts to and learns 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 Walmart's 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, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
• Delivers results while putting the customer first.
• Makes decisions based on reliable information.
• Balances short and long-term priorities.
• 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.
• 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: High school or GED