cake decorator
As a Cake Decorator, you will drive member service in your area to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will work collaboratively with other associates to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams and helps educate other associates on tools, tasks, and resources.
- Communicates and develops interpersonal skills for providing customer service while being flexible to the needs of the business.
- Maintains instock levels and controls shrinkage.
- Plans bakery production, ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of bakery decorative designs.
- Follows recipe measurement instructions and works with a variety of products (e.g., decorating bags, tips, nozzles) to create decorative flowers and lettering on bakery items.
- Ensures adherence to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management.
- Operates, maintains, and sanitizes equipment, demonstrating understanding of product and layout execution.
- 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, merchandise ordering, training, and product quality with the member in mind.
- Adapts to new tools and encourages others to use them.
- Drives the performance of the bakery area, ensuring quality and date control standards, and eliminating waste.
- Prepares for seasonal events that impact bakery volume (e.g., holidays, graduations, family events).
- Identifies member needs, assists members with purchasing decisions, and resolves member issues and concerns.
- Acts as a brand advocate by valuing the member’s experience in Bakery and modeling high-quality service and products.
- Interacts with associates to understand roadblocks and assists in training, developing, influencing, and inspiring them in a respectful, supportive, and team-oriented style.
- Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans and using the Open Door Policy.
- Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources, collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners.
- Identifies priorities, deadlines, and expectations, carries out tasks, communicates progress and information, and determines ways to address improvement opportunities.
- Adapts to and learns from change, difficulties, and feedback.
- Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences to create a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected.
- Creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, helping to attract the best talent.
- Builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
- Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
- Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, modeling Walmart values to support and foster culture.
- Holds oneself and others accountable, supporting Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world.
- Acts in a selfless manner, consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
- Delivers results while putting the customer first and makes decisions based on reliable information, balancing short- and long-term priorities.
- Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, and demonstrates courage and resilience.
- Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.
Requirements
- 6 months' experience in a fresh production area.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
Preferred Qualifications
- Cake decorating experience.
Benefits
- Competitive pay with performance-based bonus awards.
- Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off including PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- Live Better U: Company-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for high school completion, bachelor’s degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates.
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 specific plan or program terms.
Pay
The hourly wage range for this position is $19.00 to $27.00. 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.
Primary location: 5400 I20 Frontage Rd, Monroe, LA 71202-4040, United States of America.