Bakery Specialist: Fresh Displays & Customer Service

Whole Foods Market; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Whole Foods Market is seeking team members for the Bakery department to assist with receiving, stocking, and displaying products while maintaining WFM standards. The role involves customer service, merchandising, and adherence to health and safety guidelines.

Responsibilities include opening/closing duties, inventory support, and promoting a positive customer experience in a fast-paced environment. This position supports store programs and requires flexible scheduling, including nights and

Qualifications

• Ability to sell proactively.
• Ability to learn basic knowledge of all products carried in department.
• Ability to visually examine products for quality and freshness.
• Proactively reads labels and familiarizes oneself on various products.
• Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Ensures a fresh and appealing display by keeping cases and shelves clean and well stocked by front-facing, checking codes, rotating and removing out-of-date products.
• Stocks and cleans shelves, bins, and display areas.
• Monitors and prevents spoilage and communicates waste to buyers, Team Leaders, and shift supervisor.
• Maintains back stock in good order.
• Assists with sampling program, keeping sample areas full, clean and appealing.
• Assists with periodic inventory checks.
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
• Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously.
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
• Immediately reports safety hazards and violations.
• Performs other duties as assigned by store, regional, or national leadership.

Skills

Customer service

Food safety

Stock management

Teamwork

Job description

Whole Foods Market is seeking team members for the Bakery department to assist with receiving, stocking, and displaying products while maintaining WFM standards. The role involves customer service, merchandising, and adherence to health and safety guidelines.

Responsibilities include opening/closing duties, inventory support, and promoting a positive customer experience in a fast-paced environment. This position supports store programs and requires flexible scheduling, including nights and