Cake Decorator - Full Time

Sobeys; Orangeville; On-site; CAD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Sobeys is seeking a Cake Decorator for an independently owned store location. You will decorate and finish specialty bakery items, provide exceptional customer service, and help maintain department standards including cleanliness, inventory, and display integrity.

The role requires cake decorating experience, ability to learn quickly, and flexibility to work days, evenings, weekends and holidays in a fast-paced team environment.

Qualifications

• Cake decorating experience required.
• Ability to learn quickly.
• Flexible hours including days, evenings, weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers in a polite and friendly manner.
• Ice, finish, personalize and decorate specialty bakery products.
• Ensure department presentation, cleanliness and sanitation; manage inventory, rotation, ordering, and backroom procedures.
• Maintain high quality of products available for customers.
• Monitor ad item display compliance and variety standards.

Skills

Cake Decorating

Customer service

Teamwork

Communication

Job description

What began as a meat delivery business in Stellarton, Nova Scotia has grown to over 128,000 teammates at corporate-owned and franchised/affiliate store locations. Sobeys Capital Incorporated and its independently owned and operated franchise stores operate over 1,500 stores in all 10 provinces. You may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drugs, Voilà, or another of our banners, but we are all one extended family.

Please note that this career opportunity is for a role at an independently owned and operated franchised/affiliate store location.

Ready to start fresh?

The Cake Decorator is responsible for carrying out a variety of duties in a professional, safe, accurate, and timely manner. Exceptional customer service is expected, as is the ability to work respectfully in a team environment.

Job Description

• Responsible for superior service goals of the department
• Greets customers in a polite and friendly manner
• Icing, finishing, personalizing and decorating specialty bakery product.
• Ensure standards of department presentation and operations are met; including cleanliness and sanitation, inventory control, rotation, quality, ordering, variety standards, signing, seasonal schematic, and proper backroom procedures
• Ensure the department has the highest quality of product available for the customer
• Monitor to ensure variety standards are followed, as well as 100% compliance on ad item display

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required

• Ability to learn quickly
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Highly motivated and team oriented
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in both oral and written form
• Possess strong customer service qualities
• Works in a safe and responsible manner
• Available to work flexible hours
• Days, Evening, weekends and Holiday availability a must

Physical Requirements

• Constant lifting of up to 20 pounds
• Constant reaching, gripping
• Frequent bending, walking, standing, twisting, pushing or pulling
• Occasional lifting of up to 20-50 pounds
• Occasional computer and point of sale system use
• Occasional crouching, kneeling, squatting

Experience

• Cake Decorating experience required

Our affiliate and franchise stores offer teammates competitive total compensation packages that will vary by role, location and store ownership. To learn more about this opportunity—including expected range of compensation in accordance with Pay Transparency Legislation where required—Individual Compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity within the range provided.

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We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.

Please note: Successful candidates will be required to provide documentation to prove their legal ability to work in the position during the onboarding process. Documentation will be assessed by the employer prior to commencement of work.