Team Manager - Virginia Beach, VA

Panera Bread•Virginia Beach, VA

3d•$18 - $23

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 will help create a welcoming culture while ensuring guests receive quality food and service. This 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

Must be at least 18 years of age.
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 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 guests’ and associates’ directions in a loud environment.
Availability for flexible hours, including nights and weekends.

Nice To Haves

At least 1 year of restaurant management experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Ensure every guest is delighted by the quality of the 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 meet goals in sales, speed, order accuracy, and guest experience; celebrate their achievements.
Participate in the interviewing and selection process.
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.