Cafe Associate

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$17.00/hr - $24.00/hr

Position Summary:

Why do people love eating in our café at Sam’s Club? Our members tell us one of the biggest reasons is our hard-working and happy-to-help café associates. Do you have a passion for preparing food? Our cafe associates listen to our member’s needs, prepare their food orders and provide fast and friendly service. We take pride in every aspect of our work and perform it with energy and enthusiasm.

We need strong team players, with a commitment to serving our members and creating the warm and friendly environment they deserve – serving up a meal just like at home! Be a part of a team that offers customers more of what they love, for less.

You will sweep us off our feet if:

• You have a passion for and experience with fresh food
• You keep member satisfaction as your top priority
• You’re a solution seeker and innovator who tackles obstacles head-on
• You’re comfortable with change and quickly adapt to different work scenarios
• You’re a curious and creative thinker, driving change through out-of-box thinking

You will make an impact by:

• Ensuring high-quality products are fresh, ready, and available in the café
• Ensuring shelves are clean, maintaining temperature control, verifying expiration dates, and disposing of lesser-quality food products
• Packing ready-to-sell products in proper containers and stock displays
• Preparing and serving ready-to-eat food
• Maintaining a clean, sanitized, and member-ready area

The café associate role is a great way to start a fulfilling career at Sam’s Club. Apply now!

What you'll do

• Be a Team Member:
  Maintains up-to date knowledge of product specifications related to prepared food merchandise; collaborates with cross-functional teams and helps educate other associates on tools, tasks and resources; communicates effectively with team members; and remains flexible to the needs of the business to work in other areas.
• Be an Expert:
  Prepares food according to item specifications; plans for future and seasonal productions; adheres to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold chain compliance, and inventory management; operates, maintains, and sanitizes equipment.
• Be a Techie:
  Uses digital tools to drive sales and improve the shopping experience; uses handheld technology for production decisions, ordering merchandise, receiving club pick up orders, training, and product quality with the member in mind; adapts to new tools and encourages others to use them.
• Be an Owner:
  Drives area performance; stocks and rotates merchandise; ensures quality and date control; eliminates waste; provides member service by acknowledging the member and identifying needs; assists with purchasing decisions and resolving issues.
• Be a Talent Ambassador:
  Acts as a brand advocate; guides and inspires teammates to work in a respectful, supportive, and team-oriented manner; helps address roadblocks and support training.

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 using policies, data, and resources; collaborates with managers, co-workers, customers, and other business partners; identifies priorities, deadlines, and expectations; carries out tasks; communicates progress and information;

identifies improvement opportunities; and adapts to and learns from change, difficulties, and feedback.

Benefits and compensation:
Sam's Club offers competitive pay and performance-based incentive awards and other benefits. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement and financial benefits; paid time off (PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, voting); PTO/PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. Eligibility varies by job classification and length of employment. PTO information is available through internal channels.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Food Handler Certification (Food Safety) or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Food Service
• Additional qualifications may be required as per job listing

Primary

Location:

2401 N Rose Ave, Oxnard, CA , United States

• Entry level

• Part-time

• Management and Manufacturing

• Retail