Bakery Lead Fresh Bakery

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Oklahoma City, OK

This role is for a Bakery Department Lead at Walmart, focusing on driving sales, supervising a team, and ensuring operational excellence in the bakery department. It involves managing inventory, production, quality, and compliance, as well as training and developing team members. The role also requires leveraging digital tools and technology to improve business operations and the member experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement Utilizes hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production training and product quality and adopting new tools and encouraging others to use them
  4. 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 audit and compliance standards producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan
  5. 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

Skills

Required

  • Team leadership
  • Sales driving
  • Inventory management
  • Production management
  • Quality control
  • Food safety and sanitation
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Training and development
  • Digital tool utilization
  • Operational excellence
  • Merchandise display
  • Customer service

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of new products, recipes, and production specifications
  • Experience with hand-held technology for business decisions
  • Talent sourcing