Cafe Associate

Position Summary

What you'll do...

Be a Team Member

• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of product specifications related to prepared food merchandise.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and helps educate other associates on tools, tasks, and resources.
• Communicates effectively with the team members.
• Works in other areas to meet the needs of the business.

Be an Expert

• Prepares food according to item specifications.
• Understands and plans future productions and mass productions.
• Prepares for seasonality.
• Adheres to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management.
• Operates, maintains, and sanitizes equipment.
• Demonstrates an understanding of product and layout execution.

Be a Techie

• Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement.
• Utilizes handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, ordering merchandise, receiving club pick-up orders, training, and product quality with the member in mind.
• Adapts to new tools and encourages others to use them.

Be an Owner

• Drives the performance of the area.
• Stocks and rotates merchandise.
• Ensures quality and date control standards.
• Eliminates waste.
• Provides member service by acknowledging the member and identifying member's needs.
• Aids members with purchasing decisions, payment types, locating merchandise, and resolving member issues and concerns.

Be a Talent Ambassador

• Being a brand advocate.
• Develops, influences, and inspires others for working in a respectful, supportive, and team-oriented style.
• Understands roadblocks and assists in training them.

Complies with Company Policies

• Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Uses the Open Door Policy.
• Applies these in executing business processes and practices.

Completes Work Assignments

• Uses policies, data, and resources.
• Collaborates with managers, co-workers, customers, and other business partners.
• Identifies priorities, deadlines, and expectations.
• Carries out tasks.
• Communicates progress and information.
• Determines and recommends ways to address improvement opportunities.
• Adapts to and learns from change, difficulties, and feedback.

Benefits

• Competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great 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.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Successfully completes all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if offered the position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Food Safety Certification.
• Food Service Food Handler Certification (Food Safety).

Primary Location

9400 SWERNER AVE, EVERGREEN PARK, IL 60805-2509, United States of America