Full Time Cake Decorator

Harristeeter; Millsboro (DE); On-site; USD 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Teeter in Delaware is seeking a full-time Store Associate focused on taking excellent care of customers by meeting their needs and exceeding expectations. The role requires product knowledge, food preparation skills, sales ability, and teamwork with fellow associates.

Responsibilities include stocking, packaging, cleaning, and providing outstanding customer service while reflecting the Harris Teeter brand in everyday interactions.

Qualifications

• Strong customer service focus and ability to assess customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service and help customers meet their shopping needs and preferences.
• Prepare, process, package, and stock products according to Fresh Foods Standards.
• Assist with unloading stock and maintaining clean work areas.
• Engage with customers in a courteous, friendly, and prompt manner.
• Be reliable and punctual and reflect Harris Teeter’s professional image.
• Neatly decorate cakes as part of assigned duties.

Skills

Customer service

Sales ability

Product knowledge

Teamwork

Job description

This is a full time position. Primary responsibility is to Take Excellent Care Of Our Customers by satisfying each customer's needs and exceeding their expectations. This requires a defined level of product knowledge, food preparation skills, sales ability, customer relations skills, and cooperation with fellow associates to create An Incredible Place To Work and Shop. Responsible for preparing, processing, packaging, and stocking products according to Fresh Foods Standards. Also responsible for providing customer service, cleaning work areas, unloading stock, and reloading salvage products according to Fresh Foods Standards.

Customers are among Harris Teeter's most valuable assets. Every associate represents Harris Teeter to our customers and the public. The way associates perform their jobs presents an image of the entire Company. Customers judge Harris Teeter by how they are treated each time they have contact with an associate. Therefore, one of the top business priorities is to assist any customer or potential customer. Nothing is more important than being courteous, friendly, helpful, and prompt in the attention given to customers.

Harris Teeter will provide training to all associates who have extensive customer contact. If a customer wishes to make a specific comment or complaint that you cannot resolve, you are required to direct that person to the department manager or manager-on-duty for appropriate action. Remember that all contacts with the public in person, over the telephone, and through any communication reflect not only on an individual associate but on Harris Teeter as a whole. Positive customer relations will not only enhance the public's image of Harris Teeter, but also pay off in greater customer loyalty and increased sales and profit.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Initiate interaction with customers on the sales floor and sales counter. Ask the customers questions regarding their shopping needs. Provide customers information needed to meet their taste and meal requirements. Follow through on customer requests.

• Your job performance is required to demonstrate the highest level of customer service. Never be rude to a customer under any circumstance.
• Follow through on customer requests. If you cannot say "yes" to a customer's request, bring in department management or the manager-on-duty. Never turn down business.
• Make eye contact with and smile at every customer.
• Speak to customers in a genuine, clear, and enthusiastic manner and ask if they found everything they were looking for.

Reflect an appropriate business image to customers and visitors. How you dress, your grooming and personal cleanliness standards all contribute to that image and also to the morale of your fellow associates. During business hours or whenever representing Harris Teeter, you are expected to present a clean, neat, and tasteful appearance. You are required to always dress and groom yourself according to our Company policy that reflects accepted conservative norms.

Be reliable and punctual by reporting for work on time and as scheduled. When you are absent or late, it places a burden on other associates and can impact productivity and service. In the rare instances when you cannot avoid being late or are unable to work as scheduled, notify your supervisor or Manager-on-duty two (2) hours in advance of your scheduled start time so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

Neatly decorate cakes