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...

• Be a Team Leader
  • 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.
• Be an Expert
  • Maintains an indepth knowledge of business on the floor, backroom operations, product specifications, and seasonality of product by ensuring the Bakery department meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, equipment usage, production, safety, sanitation, and compliance.
    • Sharing knowledge and training the team ensuring team members possess the knowledge of new products, recipes, and production specifications and equipping them with what they need to do their job effectively.
• Be a Techie
  • 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.
• Be an Owner
  • 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.
    • Respects the individual, works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence, respects the individual, acts with integrity, acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, honest, fair, and transparent, strives for excellence, displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.
• Be a Talent Ambassador
  • 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, analyzes and applies information from multiple sources, monitors progress and results, and identifies and addresses improvement opportunities.
  • Respects the individual, acts with integrity, acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, honest, fair, and transparent, strives for excellence, displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

Strive for Excellence

• Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

Serve our Customers and Members

• 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.

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.
      • Paid time off benefits include PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
        • The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
          • For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
      • Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
        • 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

• Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position.
  • If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
• 6 months experience in a bakery production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.
  • I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position.
  • If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
• Bakery production including decorating, Food Handler Certification (Food Safety) - Certification
  • Primary Location: 305 AIRPORT RD, AMES, IA 50010-8205, United States of America
    • Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.