Bakery Team Member: Fresh Displays & Customer Focus

Whole Foods Market; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 23,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Whole Benefits

Store discount

Paid time off

Health & wellness programs

Job summary

Whole Foods Market is seeking a team member to support the Bakery by receiving and preparing product, maintaining the Bakery area and displays, and selling product in line with WFM standards. This role also handles breaking down deliveries and stocking shelves to keep the department fresh and inviting.

Team Members provide courteous, friendly, and efficient service to customers and colleagues at all times, follow store procedures, participate in trainings, and support store programs and health

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.
• Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors.

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display by keeping cases and shelves clean and well stocked by front-facing, checking codes, rotating and removing out-of-date products.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

Proactive selling

Product knowledge

Quality inspection

Label reading

Teamwork

Communication

Job description

Whole Foods Market is seeking a team member to support the Bakery by receiving and preparing product, maintaining the Bakery area and displays, and selling product in line with WFM standards. This role also handles breaking down deliveries and stocking shelves to keep the department fresh and inviting.

Team Members provide courteous, friendly, and efficient service to customers and colleagues at all times, follow store procedures, participate in trainings, and support store programs and health