Bakery Lead

Position Summary

As a Bakery Department Lead you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Bakery and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

What you'll do

• Supervises the team within the Bakery department to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of the club by communicating the goals of the department, executing company programs, adhering to policies, and being an advocate for the member, the associate, and the company.
• Working collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club is meeting the members' expectations.
• Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement.
• Utilizes handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality and adopting new tools and encouraging others to use them.
• Drives the business results ensuring commitment to operational excellence, maintaining a neat, clean, and safe work area in the Bakery department, ensuring appropriate planning and staffing for weekly bakery volumes, driving consistency in quality, food safety, and company policies to support both production and member service, maintaining accurate inventory audits and compliance standards, producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan.
• Teaches and trains the team by identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills to deliver high-quality products to the members, encouraging career growth for team members, and sourcing new talent internally and externally to work on the team.
• Develops, communicates, and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners, analyzing and applying information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results, and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities.
• Demonstrates, promotes, and supports compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by explaining, guiding, and demonstrating how to apply these in executing business processes and practices, implementing related action plans using the Open Door Policy, and assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems.
• Leads and participates in teams by using and sharing resources, information, and tools, determining customer needs and business priorities, coordinating and executing work assignments, providing advice, feedback, and support to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved, and modeling and helping others with how to adapt to change or new challenges.
• Respects individuals by embracing differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creating a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, creating opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, helping to attract the best talent, and acting in a selfless manner and being consistently humble, honest, fair, and transparent.
• Serves our customers and members by delivering results while putting the customer first, making decisions based on reliable information, balancing short and long-term priorities, and considering how own work impacts the team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.
• Strives for excellence by displaying curiosity and a desire to learn, taking calculated risks, demonstrating courage and resilience, driving continuous improvements, being open to and using new technologies and skills, supporting others through change, and living better through education and personal development.

Live Better U

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. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 months experience in a bakery production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bakery production including decorating.
• Food Handler Certification (Food Safety).

Primary Location

1300 E MALL DR, HOLLAND, OH 43528-8467, United States of America