(USA) Cake Decorator

Sam's Club; Farmington (NM); On-site; USD 26,174 - 37,195; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) and stock purchase options

Paid time off for various circumstances

Company discounts and education benefit

Job summary

Sam's Club in Farmington, NM, is looking for a Cake Decorator to enhance member service and deliver quality bakery products. This role involves collaborating with associates, ensuring food safety, and providing excellent customer experience in the bakery.

The ideal candidate has experience in the Fresh Production Area and preferably in cake decorating. The position offers competitive hourly wages and a range of benefits including health coverage and paid time off.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Experience with cake decorating preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive member service and ensure member expectations are met.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver quality bakery items.
• Plan bakery productions and ensure adherence to food safety standards.
• Assist members with purchasing decisions and resolve issues.

Skills

Customer service

Cake decorating

Team collaboration

Food safety standards

Inventory management

Education

6 months' experience in Fresh Production Area

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Position Summary: As a Cake Decorator you will drive member service in your area to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will work collaboratively with other associates to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

What you’ll do

• Be a Team Member: Collaborates with cross‑functional teams and helps educate other associates on tools, tasks, and resources. Communicates and develops interpersonal skills for providing customer service, being flexible to the needs of the business, maintaining in‑stock levels and controlling shrinkage.
• Be an Expert: Plans the bakery productions ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of bakery decorative designs following recipe measurement instructions. Works with a variety of products (decorating bags, tips, nozzles) to create decorative flowers and lettering on bakery items. Ensures adherence to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance and inventory management. Operates, maintains and sanitizes equipment and demonstrates understanding of product and layout execution.
• Be a Techie: Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement. Utilizes handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, merchandise ordering, training and product quality with the member in mind. Adapts to new tools and encourages others to use them.
• Be an Owner: Drives the performance of the bakery area ensuring quality and date control standards, eliminating waste, preparing for seasonal events that impact the bakery volume (e.g., holidays, graduations, family events). Identifies member needs, assists members with purchasing decisions and resolves member issues and concerns.
• Be a Talent Ambassador: Acts as a brand advocate by valuing the member’s experience in Bakery and modeling high‑quality service and products. Interacts with associates to understand roadblocks and assists in training, developing, influencing, and inspiring them to work in a style that is respectful, supportive and team‑oriented.
• Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans and using the Open Door Policy.
• Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data and resources; collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers and other business partners to identify priorities, deadlines and expectations; communicating progress and information; determining and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities and adapting to and learning from change and feedback.
• Respect the Individual: Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported and connected through a culture of belonging; creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform; helps attract the best talent.
• Respect the Individual: Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy and positivity to motivate and influence.
• Respect the Individual: Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others, recognizing others’ contributions and accomplishments.
• Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members and the world around us.
• Act with Integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self‑aware, honest, fair and transparent.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer first.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Makes decisions based on reliable information, balances short‑ and long‑term priorities, and considers how own work impacts the team’s ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.
• Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn; takes calculated risks and demonstrates courage and resilience.
• Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements; is open to and uses new technologies and skills; supports others through change.

Benefits

At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance‑based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!

• Health benefits – medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits – 401(k), stock purchase and company‑paid life insurance.
• Paid time off – PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Also PTO/PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. Pay meets or exceeds required paid sick leave laws where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
• Other benefits – short‑term and long‑term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

Live Better U is a company‑paid education benefit program for full‑time and part‑time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short‑form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J.

Compensation

The hourly wage range for this position is $19.00 to $27.00. The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location.

Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances. Premiums may be based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed. Multiple premiums may apply if applicable criteria are met.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: 6 months' experience in Fresh Production Area. Must be 18 years of age or older. I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job‑required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position.
• Preferred Qualifications: Cake Decorating.

Location

Primary Location: 4500 E Main St, Farmington, NM 87402‑8665, United States of America

Compliance

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have a no‑tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.