Bakery Lead: Team Builder & Quality Expert

Sam's Club; Ames (IA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) and stock purchase

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sam's Club in Ames, IA is seeking a Bakery Department Lead to drive sales, supervise the bakery team, and deliver to our members more of what they love.

You will model bakery expertise, ensure quality, safety, and compliance, lead and train Associates, and use digital tools to plan for production, inventory, and member service.

The role emphasizes open communication, teamwork, and integrity as you strive for excellence in a fast-paced retail environment.

Qualifications

• 6 months experience in a bakery production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Responsibilities

• Be a Team Leader: 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.
• Be an Expert: Maintains an in-depth 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.
• Be a Techie: 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.
• Be an Owner: 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.
• Be a Talent Ambassador: 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.
• Develops communicates and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers coworkers customers and other business partners analyzing and applying information from multiple sources monitoring progress and results and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities.

Job description

Sam's Club in Ames, IA is seeking a Bakery Department Lead to drive sales, supervise the bakery team, and deliver to our members more of what they love.

You will model bakery expertise, ensure quality, safety, and compliance, lead and train Associates, and use digital tools to plan for production, inventory, and member service.

The role emphasizes open communication, teamwork, and integrity as you strive for excellence in a fast-paced retail environment.