Team Manager/ Assistant Manager Full Time

Panera Bread•Nicholasville, KY

About The Position

The Team Manager is part of the bakery-cafe’s leadership team, helping run successful shifts, support team development, and maintain the standards guests expect. The role focuses on delivering quality food and service, building guest loyalty, and leading a team in a fast-paced environment. Team Managers help foster a culture of warmth, belonging, growth, and trust, while embodying Panera’s Guiding Values and Behaviors.

Requirements

At least 18 years of age.
Proven ability to lead shifts and direct, motivate, coach, and develop others in a fast-paced environment.
ServSafe certification or the ability to achieve certification.
Availability for flexible hours, including nights and weekends.
Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull objects weighing up to 25 pounds.
Ability to stand and walk for up to 6 hours.
Ability to communicate clearly and quickly understand directions from guests and associates in a loud environment.
Any job offer is conditional upon the results of a background check.

Nice To Haves

At least 1 year of restaurant management experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Ensure guests are delighted by the quality of food, service, and staff.
Build engaging relationships that encourage long-term guest loyalty.
Lead, manage, coach, inspire, motivate, and develop team members to achieve goals for sales, speed, order accuracy, and guest experience; celebrate their achievements.
Participate in interviewing and selecting team members.
Train the team in food safety standards and ensure those standards are maintained.
Help build a culture of warmth, belonging, growth, and trust.
Represent Panera’s Guiding Values and Behaviors by making people smile, learning and growing together, finding solutions, taking initiative, working as a team, celebrating success, and seeing the best in others.