(USA) Cake Decorator

Walmart; Gulfport (MS); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Cake Decorator to join their team. This role involves delivering exceptional member service while creating beautiful bakery items. You'll collaborate with associates, ensure food safety standards, and leverage technology to enhance the shopping experience. With a commitment to quality and member satisfaction, this position offers a chance to thrive in a supportive environment. Enjoy competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and opportunities for personal growth through educational programs. If you have a flair for creativity and a passion for baking, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

Health benefits (medical, vision, dental)

401(k) plan

Company-paid life insurance

Paid time off (PTO)

Short-term and long-term disability

Company discounts

Education benefits (Live Better U program)

Qualifications

• 6 months' experience in a fresh production area is required.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to meet member expectations and drive service.
• Plan bakery production ensuring quality and adherence to safety standards.

Skills

Customer Service

Team Collaboration

Food Safety Standards

Cake Decorating

Inventory Management

Problem Solving

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Cake Decorating Experience

Tools

Handheld Technology

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, working with a variety of products (e.g., 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, operating, maintaining, and sanitizing equipment, and demonstrating understanding of product and layout execution.
Be a Techie: Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement utilizing handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, merchandise ordering, training, and product quality with the member in mind, adapting to new tools and encouraging 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), identifying member needs, assisting members with purchasing decisions, and resolving member issues and concerns.
Be a Talent Ambassador: Being a brand advocate by valuing the members' experience in Bakery and modeling high-quality service and products. Interacting with associates to understand the roadblocks and assisting in training, developing, influencing, and inspiring them for working 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 using the Open Door Policy and applying these in executing business processes and practices. Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources, collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners, identifying priorities, deadlines, and expectations, carrying out tasks, communicating progress and information, determining and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities, and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, 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 to attract the best talent.
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.
Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer first. 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. Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

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: include medical, vision, and dental coverage.
-Financial benefits: include 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
-Paid time off benefits: include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
-Other benefits: include 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 specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J.

The hourly wage range for this position is $17.00 to $24.00*
*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.

Minimum Qualifications

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Cake Decorating.

Primary Location

10431 Old Highway 49, Gulfport, MS 39503-4118, United States of America