Cake Decorator

We are hiring a Cake Decorator at Sam's Club located in Des Moines, IA.

$17.00/hr – $24.00/hr

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.

• Be a Team Member – Collaborates with cross‑functional teams, educates other associates on tools, tasks, and resources, communicates and develops interpersonal skills for providing customer service, adapts to business needs, maintains in‑stock levels, and controls shrinkage.
• Be an Expert – Plans bakery production, ensures consistency in quality and accuracy of decorative designs, follows recipe measurement instructions, works with a variety of products (e.g., decorating bags, tips, nozzles), creates decorative flowers and lettering on bakery items, adheres to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, 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 for 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, ensures quality and date‑control standards, eliminates waste, prepares for seasonal events that impact 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, values the member experience in Bakery, models high‑quality service and products, interacts with associates to understand roadblocks, assists in training, and inspires teammates in a respectful, supportive, and team‑oriented style.
• Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity, 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; collaborates with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners; identifies priorities, deadlines, and expectations; carries out tasks; communicates progress and information; determines and recommends ways to address improvement opportunities and adapts to and learns from change, difficulty, and feedback.
• Respects the Individual by embracing 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, performs helps attract the best talent.
• Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, and communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
• Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others, recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
• Act with Integrity by maintaining and promoting the highest standards of ethics and compliance, modeling Walmart values to support and foster our culture, holding oneself and others accountable, supporting Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us.
• Acts in a self‑less manner and is consistently humble, self‑aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
• Serves our customers and members by delivering 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.
• Strives for excellence by displaying curiosity and a desire to learn, taking calculated risks, demonstrating courage and resilience, driving continuous improvements, and using new technologies and skills to…