Bakery Sales Clerk
Job Description
Position Purpose: Provides courteous, personalized customer service. Maintains proper inventory levels of products and ensures the cleanliness and appearance of the bakery.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
Champions Company and Division customer service programs to meet or exceed Division customer service goals. Handles customer relations in a positive manner, including effective resolution of customer complaints. Promotes Albertson’s philosophy of personalized service in the bakery.
Assists in the sale of bakery products. Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom, and one-on-one customer contact.
Responsible for cost and quality control. Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of bakery equipment and work area. Ensures safe work environment.
Follows proper packaging and product handling procedures. Follows company guidelines and division schematics for setting up and maintaining products, cleanliness and appeal of product show cases, display tables and special displays. Follows proper signing procedures.
Processes bread and dinner rolls. Helps customers with special orders for cakes and other bakery items. Slices bread. Prepares and displays product for sampling.
Follows Company code dating procedures for all in-store bakery products. Complies with labeling requirements for packaged merchandise. Prevents the sale of out of code product.
Staying informed on the price, ingredients and availability of products, especially advertised merchandise. Keeps baker informed to ensure a constant supply of products. Fills out inventory and production sheets completely and accurately on a daily basis.
Opens and closes the bakery according to company procedures.
Assists with all bakery duties such as: receiving, cleaning, pulling, proofing, baking, decorating, slicing and packaging.
Responsible for performing all job duties safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.
Other necessary and required duties.
Skills and Physical Requirements:
Ability to be friendly, courteous, tactful and maintain composure in dealing with customers and co-workers. Must possess good communication skills in writing, over the telephone and in person, legible handwriting and the ability to read and follow directions.
Ability to frequently reach, lift, stack and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 55 lbs.
Ability to stand for long periods of time, walk and move rapidly, bend, stoop, twist, and turn frequently. Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination necessary. Must be able to operate bakery utensils and related equipment. Ability to push and pull fully loaded hand trucks, carts and racks.
Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities.
Requires knowledge of basic mathematics.
Must be able to learn taste, content and perishability of products, safety and sanitation procedures and department policies and procedures.
Work Environment:
Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to baking procedures, equipment and work aids necessary to perform job duties.
Frequent exposure to 400˚ Fahrenheit while baking products. Exposure up to approximately 28˚ Fahrenheit while handling products in cooler and -20˚ Fahrenheit while handling products in freezer.
Working conditions consist of a temperature controlled store environment.
Safety – Sensitive Position:
Job responsibilities include tasks or duties that could affect the safety or health of the employee performing the task or others.
DISCLAIMER:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by employees assigned to this job. If you have questions regarding your ability to physically perform the listed job duties and requirements – e.g. lifting, standing, bending, etc. - please speak to your Store Director. All team members must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified may vary within each store and from store to store.
Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. Committed to innovation and fostering a culture of belonging, our team is united with a unique purpose: to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being. We want talented individuals to be part of this journey!
Locally great and nationally strong, Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI) is a leading food and drug retailer in the U.S. We operate over 2,200 stores, 1,732 pharmacies, 405 fuel centers, 22 distribution facilities, and 19 manufacturing plants across 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Shaw’s, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets, United Express, Randalls, Albertson’s Market, Pavilions, Star Markets, Market Street, Carrs, Haggen, Lucky, Amigos, Andronico’s Community Markets, King’s, Balducci’s, and Albertson’s Market Street.
Our vision is to be a retail leader admired for national strength with deep local roots, offering an easy, fun, friendly, and inspiring experience, no matter how customers choose to shop with us. We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and strive to create a workplace where everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources, and can fully contribute to their and our company’s success.
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Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job and are not the official job description for the position. All employees must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties, and skills of personnel may vary within store and/or from store to store and the official job description will be provided during the application process.
Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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