(USA) Cake Decorator

Sam's Club; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 27,552 - 38,572; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) and stock purchase plan

Paid time off including various leaves

Tuition reimbursement program

Job summary

A retail warehouse club is seeking a Cake Decorator in Winston-Salem, NC to enhance member service and ensure quality in bakery decorations. The ideal candidate will collaborate with associates and be responsible for precision in designs, customer interaction, and maintaining company standards. Benefits include health coverage, paid time off, and a tuition reimbursement program. The hourly wage ranges from $20.00 to $28.00 with potential additional premiums.

Qualifications

• 6 months’ experience in Fresh Production Area.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Willingness to complete all required job training.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive member service.
• Ensure consistent quality in bakery decorative designs.
• Utilize digital tools to drive sales and enhance customer experience.

Skills

Customer service

Cake decorating

Team collaboration

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

1. 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.
2. Be an Expert – Plans bakery productions ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of bakery decorative designs. Follows recipe measurement instructions, works with a variety of products, decorates bags, tips, nozzles to create decorative flowers and lettering on bakery items, ensuring 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.
3. Be a Techie – Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement. Utilizes hand‑held 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.
4. Be an Owner – Drives the performance of the bakery area ensuring quality and date‑control standards. Eliminates waste, prepares for seasonal events that impact bakery volume, identifies member needs, assists members with purchasing decisions and resolves member issues and concerns.
5. Be a Talent Ambassador – Acts as a brand advocate by valuing the member 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.
6. Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity, implementing action plans and applying the Open Door Policy.
7. Completes work assignments and priorities using policies, data and resources, collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers and other business partners, identifying priorities, deadlines and expectations, carrying out tasks, communicating progress, determining and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities and adapting to change and feedback.
8. 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, perform, and helps attract the best talent.
9. Respect the Individual – Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy and positivity to motivate and influence.
10. Respect the Individual – Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others; recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
11. Act with Integrity – Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models 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.
12. Act with Integrity – Acts in a self‑less manner, consistently humble, self‑aware, honest, fair and transparent.
13. Serve our Customers and Members – Delivers results while putting the customer first.
14. 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.
15. Strive for Excellence – Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience.
16. Strive for Excellence – Drives continuous improvement, is open to and uses new technologies and skills and supports others through change.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 months’ experience in Fresh Production Area.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Will successfully complete all required job‑training and assessments within the prescribed time period.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cake Decorating.

Benefits

• Health, vision, dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase plan and company‑paid life insurance.
• Paid time off including PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting. PTO/PPTO can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays or other purposes. Amount depends on job classification and length of employment and meets or exceeds applicable sick‑leave laws.
• 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 fully paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits may be subject to change and may depend on specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J.

Salary

The hourly wage range for this position is $20.00 to $28.00. The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location.

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

Location

Primary Location: 930 HANES MALL BLVD, WINSTON SALEM, NC 27103‑5527, United States of America.

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have a zero‑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.