(USA) Cake Decorator FT

Sam's East • Trussville, AL

13d • 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, as well as operating, maintaining, and sanitizing equipment. Additionally, you will leverage digital tools to drive sales and improve the shopping experience, prepare for seasonal events, identify member needs, assist with purchasing decisions, and resolve member issues. You will also act as a brand advocate, model high-quality service, and assist in training and mentoring other associates. This position requires compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity, and involves completing work assignments by using policies, data, and resources, and collaborating with managers and coworkers. Embracing differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences to create a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected is also a key aspect of this role. You will work as a team, build strong relationships, and communicate with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence. Strengthening the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others, and recognizing their contributions and accomplishments is expected. You will maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, acting in a selfless, humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent manner. Delivering results while putting the customer first, making decisions based on reliable information, balancing short and long-term priorities, and considering the impact of your work on the team's ability to deliver on its purpose are essential. Displaying curiosity, a desire to learn, taking calculated risks, and demonstrating courage and resilience are also important. Driving continuous improvements, being open to and using new technologies and skills, and supporting others through change are key to striving for excellence.

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

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 controlling 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 encouraging 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 for example holidays, graduations, family events
• Identifies member needs
• Assists members with purchasing decisions
• 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 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
• 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, communicating 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 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, self-aware, honest, fair and transparent
• Delivers results while putting the customer first
• Makes decisions based 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: No Education Listed