Assistant Bakery Manager

Albertsons • Trophy Club, TX

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About The Position

The Assistant Bakery Manager supports the daily operation of the Bakery Department and helps ensure excellent customer service, high-quality products, appropriate inventory levels, food safety, sanitation, merchandising, and efficient department operations. The role assists with supervising, training, scheduling, and developing bakery associates while supporting sales, production, inventory, and profitability goals.

The position includes helping prepare, package, display, and merchandise bakery products; maintain fresh and well-stocked displays; support production planning; and follow department opening, closing, labeling, and product-handling procedures. It also assists with receiving and inspecting deliveries, stocking and rotating merchandise, maintaining inventory and records, and building promotional and seasonal displays.

The Assistant Bakery Manager helps train and assign associates, maintain appropriate staffing coverage, communicate department goals, and support associate development and department performance. The role also helps maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe department and follow food-safety, sanitation, and workplace-safety requirements.

Requirements

• Strong customer service, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead, train, and work effectively with bakery associates.
• Working knowledge of bakery operations, production, merchandising, sanitation, inventory control, and product freshness.
• Basic mathematical skills, including knowledge of weights and measures.
• Strong organization and time-management skills.
• Ability to prioritize responsibilities in a fast-paced retail environment.
• Ability to safely operate bakery equipment and other department tools as required.

Responsibilities

• Provide fast, friendly, and professional customer service; assist customers with product selections, special orders, and recommendations.
• Respond to customer questions, phone calls, and concerns; resolve concerns when possible and involve store leadership when necessary.
• Promote bakery products through suggestive selling and positive customer interactions.
• Assist with preparing, packaging, displaying, and merchandising bakery products, and maintain clean, attractive, fresh, and well-stocked displays.
• Follow product preparation and packaging procedures and support daily production planning and monitoring according to company procedures.
• Follow department opening and closing procedures; ensure bakery products are properly signed, labeled, and code dated.
• Assist with receiving deliveries, verifying orders, inspecting product quality, stocking, and rotating merchandise.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels and product freshness; organize cooler and freezer areas and help control shrink, inventory, and department costs.
• Support physical inventory processes, required inventory reporting, and accurate department records, production charts, sales and labor information, and logs.
• Build and maintain promotional and seasonal displays; monitor product dates and remove outdated or spoiled merchandise.
• Assist with supervising, training, and assigning duties to bakery associates; help schedule associates to maintain coverage and customer service levels.
• Train associates on department standards, store policies, sales procedures, food safety, and recordkeeping.
• Communicate department goals, performance expectations, and sales opportunities; help identify and develop associates with advancement potential.
• Support department productivity and overall performance.
• Maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe bakery department, including sales floor, work areas, coolers, freezers, preparation areas, displays, and equipment.
• Ensure proper temperatures and follow food handling, storage, packaging, labeling, sanitation, workplace safety, and company requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly.
• Access to up to 50% of earned wages before payday through a partnership with Stream.
• Associate discounts.
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates, including medical, dental, and 401(k).
• Time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick pay.
• Training, career growth, and development.
• Inclusive work environment with colleagues who reflect the communities served.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed