Bakery Cake Designer Jobs

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Job Title: Bakery Cake Designer

Department: Bakery

FLSA : Non-Exempt

General Function

Responsible for decorating bakery items. You will assist customers with their bakery orders by the telephone and in person at the store. Additionally you will ensure a positive company image by providing courteous, friendly, and efficient customer service to customers and team members.

Core Competencies

• Professionalism
• Growth mindset
• Results oriented
• Customer focused
• Partnerships

Reporting Relations

Accountable and Reports to: District Store Director, Store Manager, Assistant Managers of; Perishables, Store Operations, and Health Wellness Home; Bakery Department Manager

Positions that Report to you: None

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
• Participates in employee cross training.
• Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Answers the telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call including taking product orders.
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time.
• Tracks daily retail production. Identifies, with co-workers, tasks to be completed.
• Checks orders for the day and sets up a timeline and production schedule.
• Loading or unloading heavy items
• Communicates with bakery manager regarding displays, weekly ads and special needs on a daily basis.
• Escorting them to the products they’re looking for
• Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.
• Keeps current on new designs and trends.
• Makes an effort to learn customers’ names and to address them by name whenever possible.
• Operates as a lead worker with part-time or other employees. (Instructs and reviews work).
• Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.
• Develops bakery orders for bakers on a daily basis. (Orders cakes, sizes, etc.)
• Assists customers by: (examples include)
  • escorting them to the products they’re looking for
  • securing products that are out of reach
  • loading or unloading heavy items
  • performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.
• Delivers product and sets up wedding cakes on site (outside the store).
• Orders supplies for decorating area and checks off the order.
• Ensures department standards are met.
• Checks cake orders for details (size, deco pack, icing needs, dates) daily and indicates supply needs.
• Takes customer orders at Bakery counter.
• Decorates bakery items in a timely manner.
• Securing products that are out of reach
• Performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.
• Checks product dates, pulls cases for work and lists items to fill or replace.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists in other areas of the store as needed.
• Performs other job related duties and special projects as required.
• Wraps all product as necessary.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Worker Characteristics

• Must have the ability to file, post, and mail materials; copy data from one record to another; interview to obtain basic information; guide people and provide basic direction.
• Must have the ability to solve practical problems; variety of variables with limited standardization; interpret instructions.
• Ability to do arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals, and percentages

Education and Experience

High school or equivalent experience and six months or less of similar or related work experience.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to perform the following physical activities: Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.
• Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches and more than 20 feet with or without correction, color vision, depth perception, and field of vision.
• Must be physically able to exert up to 100 pounds of force (shared team lifting) occasionally; exert up to 50 pounds of force frequently; and exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Working Conditions

The duties for this position are normally conducted in a store environment. There is significant pressure to meet deadlines and handle multiple priorities. There is exposure to flour dust, noise, cleaning chemicals/solvents, residual fumes and temperature extreme.

Equipment Used to Perform Job

Standard tools and equipment used in a bakery environment including mixers, ovens, turntables, tips, bas, airbrush telephone copy cake machine, intercom system.

Contacts

Has daily contact with the general public taking orders. Has weekly contact with suppliers/vendors.

Are you ready to smile, apply today.