Cake Decorator

Starting Hourly Rate / Salario por Hora Inicial: $15.00 USD per hour

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The Food & Beverage team enables a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is fresh, in stock, available and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. They are experts of operations, process and efficiency. This team leads food and food services including replenishment, inventory accuracy, food safety, presentation, pricing and promotional signing processes for all Food & Beverage areas of the store.

At Target, we believe in our team members having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career.

The role of a Cake Decorator can provide you with the skills and experiences of :

• Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest first culture in food
• Build guest relationships and convert interactions into sales through sampling, special orders and creating unique designs
• Building in cake and dessert trends including: seasonality, guest preference, and flavor
• Monitoring sales of products and adjusting production to drive efficiency, profitability and minimize waste
• Cake decorating fundamentals

• Deliver an exceptional guest experience, providing a fresh and abundant shopping experience during all hours of operations, prioritizing the guest’s needs over task.
• Execute Food & Beverage processes, including food deliveries, replenishment, straightening merchandise, in-stocks routines, data accuracy, culling, rotation, cleaning, signing and organizing and storing reserve product.
• Engage with guests to capture and fulfill their customized cake order.
• Uphold and maintain the execution of the Food & Beverage Standards.
• Produce, package and label items to specifications on production cards and follow specific department routines to drive sales, in-stocks and profitability.
• Prep, ice and decorate cakes and cupcakes to place on the salesfloor that are seasonally relevant and follow production card specifications.
• Follow all food safety requirements, including monitoring and recording temperature sensitive food items, as outlined in Target’s policies and procedures.
• Locate and identify damaged, recalled or expired items and process according to Target’s policies and procedures.
• Use sampling and suggestive selling to promote products and increase sales.
• Follow proper perishable inventory procedures to ensure an accurate recording of inventory.
• Be knowledgeable about the tools, products, and services available in the total store, and specific to your area, to solve issues for the guest and improve their experience.
• Appropriately use and care for in-store and personal protective equipment; follow equipment control guidelines.
• Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance.
• Work in a safe manner at all times; comply with all safety policies, best practices, and training; report hazards and correct where possible.
• Support guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up (OPU) and Drive-up (DU) and maintain a compliance culture while executing those duties, such as compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
• Create a welcoming experience by greeting guests as you are completing your daily tasks.
• When guests need assistance, engage with guests in a welcoming way, to help solve their specific needs.
• Thank guests and let them know we’re happy they chose to shop at Target.
• All other duties based on business needs.

This may be the right job for you if:

• You enjoy interacting and helping others - including guests that shop our store and fellow team members you work with.
• You thrive in a fast-moving, highly active and physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to success.
• You are open to working a flexible work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays and other peak shopping times).

The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help…