Assistant Bakery Manager

Weis Markets • Schnecksville, PA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

WEIS is seeking an Assistant Bakery Manager who is passionate about teamwork and the growth of its associates and communities. The company values respect, understanding, and appreciation for its employees, offering growth and career opportunities. This role involves promoting excellent customer relations, focusing on continuous improvement within the bakery department, and handling customer orders for decorated products. The Assistant Bakery Manager will be responsible for creating and decorating cakes and other bakery items, adhering to company recipes, and assisting the Bakery Manager with daily operations such as merchandising, ad execution, associate engagement, and customer service. The position also includes overseeing department inventories, assisting with scheduling and training associates, developing merchandising plans, and ensuring product quality and freshness. The Assistant Bakery Manager will perform the duties of the Bakery Manager in their absence and is expected to maintain a well-stocked and appealing bakery department while controlling expenses and ensuring compliance with company policies.

Requirements

• High School diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Minimum (2) years’ experience in management in retail/restaurant/supermarket environment
• Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation

Nice To Haves

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in business related or food service-related field
• Previous decorating experience

Responsibilities

• Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer focused behavior with associates
• Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions and helps resolve customer issues promptly in a polite and professional manner
• Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress
• Takes customer orders over the phone or in person at the store with a pleasant and positive attitude
• Determines what the customer is looking for in terms of size, flavor and appearance
• Creates the finished decorated product in timely fashion
• Decorates cakes and other bakery products using dye, specific designs or by creating custom designs
• Uses variety of creams, frostings and fillings with consistent outcome
• Makes icing for cakes and other related products
• Adheres to company approved recipes
• Assists Bakery Manager in day-to-day functions of Bakery operations such as merchandising, ad execution, associate engagement and customer service
• Performs duties of Bakery Manager in their absence
• Oversees department inventories by tracking weekly sales reports, product orders and supplies to ensure successful period-end physical inventory
• Assists with scheduling all Bakery associates, participates in training, rewards and recognizes performance and delegates work assignments to effectively utilize talents and abilities while maximizing profits for the department
• Utilizes the Learning Management System (LMS) current and new associates
• Develops and implements merchandising plans that meet financial goals
• Knowledgeable on weekly ads and specials to ensure correct pricing and production amounts
• Continuously improves knowledge of produced merchandise
• Adheres to and enforces company policy of production logs
• Checks and verifies all department deliveries and invoices to ensure accurate billing
• May help unload merchandise and transport to sales floor or storage area
• Enforces and follows department practices regarding receiving, dating and restocking to ensure product rotation
• Monitors product quality and freshness
• Breaks down deliveries
• Controls department expenses by improving operations and efficiencies, controls labor costs and reduces losses due to damages, spoiled product and shrink
• Ensures associates correctly follow company recipes for prepared products
• Maintains freshness by properly removing and recording out of code products
• Completes required product logs
• Keeps bakery department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demand
• Smiles and greets customers, makes suggestions, answers questions about various products
• Helps resolve customer concerns in a prompt and courteous manner
• Ensures that merchandise is fresh, in saleable condition and properly priced with the correct signage
• Handles spoiled and damaged product, or product that is close to expiration, according to company procedures and standards
• Removes product that is not saleable to ensure quality
• May assist with the production of breads, pastries and other baked goods to sell
• Adheres to use of production logs and company approved recipes
• Ensures smooth workflow within department by cooperating with co-workers and superiors
• Strive to continuously improve job performance
• Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE)
• May also be called upon to assist in other departments
• Supervises associates within the department in partnership with or absence of the department manager

Benefits

• Company that treats associates with respect, understanding, and appreciation
• Passionate about teamwork and the growth of its associates and communities
• Provides growth and endless career opportunities for people at all stages in life
• Known for talent development at all levels

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees