Assistant Bakery Manager
About The Position
The Assistant Bakery Manager delivers fast, friendly, helpful, and efficient service to Market 32/Price Chopper customers. This role assists the Bakery Manager with day-to-day operations, ensuring compliance with merchandising, sanitation, and training policies and procedures. The Assistant Bakery Manager inspects bakery products to maintain availability and quality and maximize sales opportunities. The position supports bakery operations in a retail store, including product preparation, baking, merchandising, and presentation. It oversees department operations when the Bakery Manager is absent and helps ensure customer satisfaction through product availability, quality, service, and sanitary conditions. The role also assists with associate training, inventory, financial administration, and shrink control. The pay range is $18.75–$25.50. Applicants must be at least 18 years old, have a high school degree or equivalent, and have 6–12 months of related experience. Strong communication, basic computer skills, and the ability to lead and support others are required. The work involves frequent standing and walking, constant hand dexterity and pivoting, and exposure to hot environments for 5–8 hours. It also includes occasional exposure to cold environments, sitting, pushing or pulling, and lifting, as well as frequent squatting or kneeling, bending, and twisting. Equipment used includes bakery tools and machinery, ovens and stoves, a donut fryer, pallet jack, stackers, dock plates, compactor/baler, computer applications, and other listed equipment.
Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- High school degree or equivalent.
- 6–12 months of related experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and support others, with strong follow-through in achieving desired results and objectives.
- Strong communication skills.
- Basic computer skills.
Responsibilities
- Provide fast, friendly, helpful, and efficient customer service while following company 5S efficiency standards.
- Demonstrate a welcoming customer service approach, including smiling, making eye contact, and thanking customers.
- Maintain a neat, clean, and organized workstation in accordance with 5S standards.
- Assist with bakery operations, including product preparation, baking, merchandising, and final presentation of bakery products.
- Oversee department operations in the Bakery Manager’s absence.
- Maintain customer satisfaction through product availability, quality, service, sanitary conditions, adequate presentation, and appropriate product variety.
- Comply with corporate and state sanitation regulations and maintain a clean workstation.
- Manage and fulfill customer special orders accurately and in a timely manner.
- Assist with the training and development of bakery associates to support corporate performance standards.
- Follow company safety and training policies and procedures and ensure bakery associates do the same.
- Assist the Bakery Manager in maintaining inventory levels in freezers, coolers, back rooms, supplies, and Deco Pac.
- Develop proficiency in bakery department financial activities, including paperwork, weekly shrink, transfer sales, and budgets.
- Control shrink by consistently following related policies and procedures.
- Inspect bakery products to maintain product availability and quality and maximize sales opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
