(usa) Cake Decorator

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Maplewood, MO

This role is for a Cake Decorator at Walmart. The primary responsibilities include driving member service, planning bakery productions, ensuring consistency in decorative designs, adhering to food safety standards, and leveraging digital tools to improve the shopping experience. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and a focus on product quality and member satisfaction. Experience in fresh production and cake decorating is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborates with cross functional teams and helps educate other associates on tools, tasks, and resources; communicates and develops interpersonal skills for providing customer service; being flexible to the needs of the business; maintaining in-stock levels; and controlling shrinkage.
  2. Plans the bakery productions; ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of bakery decorative designs; following recipe measurement instructions; working with a variety of products (for example, decorating bags, tips, nozzles) to create decorative flowers and lettering on bakery items; ensuring adherence to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management; operating, maintaining, and sanitizing equipment; and demonstrating understanding of product and layout execution.
  3. Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement; utilizing hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, merchandise ordering, training, and product quality with the member in mind; adapting to new tools and encouraging others to use them.
  4. Drives the performance of the bakery area; ensuring quality and date control standards; eliminating waste; preparing for seasonal events that impact the bakery volume (for example, holidays, graduations, family events); identifying member needs; assisting members with purchasing decisions; and resolving member issues and concerns.
  5. Being a brand advocate by valuing the member's experience in Bakery and modeling high quality service and products; interacting with associates to understand the roadblocks and assisting in training; developing, influencing and inspiring them for working in a style that is respectful, supportive and team oriented.

Skills

Required

  • 6 months' experience in fresh production area
  • Must be 18 years of age or older

Nice to have

  • Cake Decorating