Department Specialist - Bakery

The Bakery sales/marketing has an opening for a Department Specialist for the Balery Department. This position is in the Mid-Atlantic Division within the Malvern Office.

Position Purpose: The Department Specialist will complete a variety of specialized duties that support the functional operations. The duties in the department specialist job family focus on tasks and/work that are unique to the department and require knowledge and skills that are beyond what are required for general office work. Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Assist with total store Customer Service for the Division
• Maintains complex records.
• Responds to inquiries in area of responsibility.
• Collects data/information for dept. use in special projects or reports.
• Updates information and reports typically on the computer.
• Checks information for accuracy.
• Prepares and balances data.
• Answers dept. phones as needed and routes to appropriate area.
• Reviews information/data and makes decisions within very defined guidelines, parameters, and instruction.
• Examines and prioritizes documents to determine work to be completed or best course of action.
• Collects information for specific department reports.
• Creates and maintains complex reports.
• Sorts, files and maintains invoices, receipts, contracts, or other special department documents.
• Compiles minor statistical data
• Makes and checks routine one and two step math calculations.
• Completes keyboarding projects such preparing correspondence and mailings.
• Checks own work for accuracy.
• Coordinates special programs and/or events
• Reviews and/or compares information/data and makes determination within defined guidelines, parameters, and instruction.
• Maintains complex records and files, and search and investigate information found in files.
• Compiles information and data from various sources for specific departmental reports, and creates reports, graphs and data comparisons.
• Posts records and process departmental documents requiring specific knowledge of functional area.
• Completes detailed keyboarding projects such as preparing correspondence from rough drafts and completing specialized departmental forms.
• Responds to inquiries that require specialized knowledge of the function to respond.
• Analyzes and develops major projects and carries projects through to completion.
• Research and interpret a variety of levels of information.
• Maintains unit documents such as ledgers, financial records, service information, etc.
• Coordinates and implements approved changes in policies and procedures affecting unit.
• Provides advice and assistance to other employees in unit and acts as liaison to other units.
• Monitors daily work of a group of lower level specialist and make adjustments in division of work to ensure timely accurate completion of work.
• Trains new employees on job tasks.
• Acts as a resource to staff in work group.
• Provides input to management on performance reviews of staff in work group.
• May participate in interviews and provide input to management during selection process of new members to work group.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience with Pricing/POS systems required
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent keyboarding skills
• Math skills at a specific level (i.e. one step: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division or two step percent calculations or more advanced).
• Excellent computer skill: word processing and/or spreadsheet
• Be detail oriented, ability to organized, and strong analytical skills.
• Possess ability to direct, organize, lead and control work group staff.
  
  

We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. And a diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect. We provide employment, training, compensation, promotion and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status or any other legally protected status. We support a drug-free workplace - all applicants offered a position are required to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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