4 Baker jobs in the United Arab Emirates

**Additional Information**
**Job Number**
**Job Category** Food and Beverage & Culinary
**Location** Al Wathba a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa Abu Dhabi, Al Wathba South, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates, 56620 VIEW ON MAP
**Schedule** Full Time
**Located Remotely?** N
**Position Type** Management
**JOB SUMMARY**
Exhibits creative baking and decorating talents by personally performing tasks while leading the staff in preparing quality and consistent pastries for all areas. Works to continually improve guest and employee satisfaction while maintaining the operating budget. Leads development and training of team to improve results while maintaining standards. Must ensure sanitation and food standards are achieved.
**CANDIDATE PROFILE**
**Education and Experience**
- High school diploma or GED; 4 years experience in the culinary, food and beverage, or related professional area.
OR
- 2-year degree from an accredited university in Culinary Arts, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 2 years experience in the culinary, food and beverage, or related professional area.
**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**
**Leading Pastry Culinary Team**
- Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
- Supervises and manages employees. Manages all day-to-day operations. Understands employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence.
- Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Serves as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.
- Ensures and maintains the productivity level of employees.
- Ensures employees understand expectations and parameters.
- Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.
- Solicits employee feedback, utilizes an "open door" policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns.
- Leads shifts while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on required specifications.
- Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
**Ensuring Culinary Standards and Responsibilities are Met**
- Develops, designs, or creates new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Recognizes superior quality products, presentations and flavor.
- Maintains food preparation handling and correct storage standards.
- Maintains purchasing, receiving and food storage standards.
- Supports procedures for food & beverage portion and waste controls.
- Follows proper handling and right temperature of all food products.
- Supervises pastry preparation shift operations and ensures compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, standards and procedures.
- Ensures compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Prepares and cooks foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests or functions.
- Checks the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
- Assists in determining how food should be presented and creates decorative food displays.
**Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service**
- Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
- Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis.
- Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
- Sets a positive example for guest relations.
- Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service.
- Emphasizes guest satisfaction during all departmental meetings and focuses on continuous improvement.
- Strives to improve service performance.
**Maintaining Culinary Goals**
- Achieves and exceeds goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
- Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Trains employees in safety procedures and supervises their ability to follow loss prevention policies to prevent accidents and control costs.
- Purchases appropriate supplies and manage inventories according to budget.
**Supports Training and Development Activities**
- Ensures disciplinary procedures and documentation are completed according to Standard and Local Operating Procedures (SOPs and LSOPs) and support the Peer Review Process.
- Participates in training staff on menu items including ingredients, preparation methods and unique tastes.
- Reviews staffing levels to ensure that guest service, operational needs and financial objectives are met.
- Ensures property policies are administered fairly and consistently.
- Assists as needed in the interviewing and hiring of employee team members with appropriate skills.
**Additional Responsibilities**
- Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Brings issues to the attention of the department manager and Human Resources as necessary.
- Attends and participates in all pertinent meetings.
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We are currently seeking for passionate and dynamic Kitchen professionals who pride themselves on their ability to deliver extraordinary levels of customer service and provide creative solutions to our guests.

Responsibilities

• Monitor all duty schedules in the bakery operation
• Create high quality and creative bakery products to satisfy the customer
• Follow the instructions and recommendations from the immediate Superiors to complete the daily tasks
• Ensure the highest standards and consistent quality in the daily preparation and keep up to date with new recipes and preparation techniques
• Participate in establishing the month end inventory in the bakery
• Handle all food transfers out of the bakery to other areas and ensures proper documentation
• Coordinate and participate with other sections of requirements, cleanliness, wastage and cost control
• Consult and check on daily bakery requirements, functions, buffets and last minute events
• Ensure highest standards of hygiene within the bakery section

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Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al‑Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al‑Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al‑Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

Overview of the role:

A Senior Visual Merchandiser Display Stylist must stay informed about all aspects of popular culture and creativity to bring a fresh perspective to a brand. They will be responsible for presenting products in a way that attracts customers and maximizes sales.

What you will do:

• Display the brand by seasonal trends and be able to mix and match outfits in window/ in-store as per the Company’s brand standard.

Store Display Standard

• Display window and in-store mannequins/torsos to promote the brand styling and implementation standard
• Display window and in-store mannequins/torsos to promote a specific product or top seller promotion.
• Coaching store people/ Visual Merchandisers on how products should be displayed on mannequins/ torsos in windows/ in-store.

Visual Style

• Drawing designs and plans by hand or computer
• Deciding how to use space and lighting creatively
• Creating visual merchandising packs to send to each market/store
• Setting up displays, and graphics, arranging action areas and implementing posters in window/indoor

Operational Effectiveness

• New store openings, the Job holder will be responsible for physically being involved in the placement of graphics and Visual Merchandising displays.

Required Skills to be successful

• Advanced knowledge of PowerPoint, Photoshop, and Illustrator for computer‑aided design work.
• Innovative - Generates suggestions for improving work
• Creativity and imagination
• A good sense of design, color, style and fashion
• Practical skills, such as carpentry and needlework, etc.

Minimum Qualification and Knowledge: Education

University Degree graduatepreferably in Interior Design, Merchandising, or Fashion

Minimum three years of Visual Merchandising experience in the Retail Fashion business

Has experience in a Senior / Supervisory or Team Lead role.

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