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.
    • Respects the Individual: 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, 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: Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others, recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments, acts with Integrity: 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 with Integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent, strives for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, strives for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, supports others through change, strives for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, 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, encourages career growth for team members, and sources 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, identifies and addresses improvement opportunities
• Act with Integrity
  • Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent, serves our customers and members, 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, strives for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, strives for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, supports others through change, strives for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, supports others through change

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 months experience in a bakery production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.
  • Must be 18 years of age or older

Preferred Qualifications

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