Team Manager

Panera Bread•Schererville, IN
•$18 - $23•Onsite

About The Position

As a Team Manager at Panera, you’ll be part of the bakery-cafe’s leadership team, helping run great shifts, support team development, and maintain the high standards guests expect. You’ll help create a welcoming culture and ensure guests receive quality food and service. The role requires flexible hours, including nights and weekends, in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities. Any job offer is conditional upon the results of a background check.

Requirements

  • Minimum age of 18.
  • Proven ability to lead shifts while directing, motivating, coaching, and developing others in a fast-paced environment.
  • ServSafe certification or ability to achieve certification.
  • Ability to work flexible hours, including nights and weekends.
  • Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull objects weighing 25 pounds.
  • Ability to stand and walk for up to 6 hours.
  • Ability to clearly communicate and quickly understand guests’ and associates’ directions in a loud environment.

Nice To Haves

  • 1+ years of restaurant management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure guests are delighted by the quality of food, service, and staff.
  • Build engaging relationships that lead to long-term, loyal guests.
  • Lead, manage, and develop team members by coaching, inspiring, and motivating them to exceed goals in 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 and taking initiative, working as a team, celebrating success, and seeing the best in others.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and eligibility for quarterly bonuses
  • Free on-shift meals and unlimited fountain beverages
  • Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Pet insurance
  • 401(k) with match available
  • Career advancement and leadership development opportunities
  • Tuition discounts
  • Perks and rewards for team members
  • Team member assistance program
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