Bakery Lead Fresh Bakery

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.
• 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, analyzing and applying information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results, and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities.
• Act with Integrity
  • 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.
• Respect the Individual
  • Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence, and helps to attract the best talent.
• Respect the Individual
  • Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others, recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments, and acts with integrity.
• Act with Integrity
  • Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
• 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.
• Strive for Excellence
  • 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 team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.
• Serve our Customers and Members
  • Delivers results while putting the customer first, makes decisions based on reliable information, balances short-term and long-term priorities, and considers how own work impacts the team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 months experience in a bakery production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.
  • If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Primary Location

4326 28TH ST SE, KENTWOOD, MI 49512-1908, United States of America

Additional Information

• The hourly wage range for this position is $22.00 to $30.00* The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location.
  • Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances.
    • Premiums may be based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed.
      • Multiple premiums may apply if applicable criteria are met.
• 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.