Position Summary:
Provides support as a member of the Bakery team to include receiving and preparing product, maintaining the Bakery area and displays, and selling product in support of WFM standards. Performs all functions related to breaking down deliveries and stocking shelves. All Whole Foods Market Retail jobs require ensuring a positive company image by providing courteous, friendly, and efficient service to customers and Team Members at all times. All positions must be performed in accordance with team and store Standard Operating Procedures. Further, Team Members must be prepared and able to perform the duties inherent in other Team Member job descriptions. Team Leaders are required to spend significant time on the floor, engaging with customers, and pitching in to help whenever and wherever needed. All positions must strive to support WFM core values and goals, promote national, regional, and store programs and initiatives, and ensure adherence to all applicable health and safety regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assists with sampling program, keeping sample areas full, clean and appealing.
- Assists with periodic inventory checks.
- Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.
- Ensures a fresh and appealing display by keeping cases and shelves clean and well stocked by front-facing, checking codes, rotating and removing out-of-date products.
- Stocks and cleans shelves, bins, and display areas.
- Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and
- Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
- Maintains back stock in good order.
- Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
- Monitors and prevents spoilage and communicates waste to buyers, Team Leaders, and shift supervisor.
- Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously.
- Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
- Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
Required Education & Experience:
- Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
- Work requires the following motions: bending, twisting, squatting and reaching.
- Exposure to FDA approved cleaning chemicals.
- Assists with periodic inventory checks.
- Hand use: single grasping, fine manipulation, pushing and pulling.
- Proactively reads labels and familiarizes oneself on various products.
- Ability to work in wet and dry conditions.
- Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team.
- Ability to sell proactively.
- Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors.
- Exposure to temperatures: <32 degrees Fahrenheit (freezing), 32-40 degrees Fahrenheit (refrigerators), >90 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Ability to meet customer service expectations and standards in all interactions with customers, vendors, and Team Members.
- Ability to visually examine products for quality and freshness.
- Ability to follow directions and procedures; effective time management and organization skills.
- In an 8-hour work day: standing/walking 6-8 hours.
- Ability to learn basic knowledge of all products carried in department.