Team Manager- Greenbriar

Panera Bread•Chesapeake, VA

About The Position

The Team Manager is part of Panera’s bakery-cafe leadership team and helps run effective shifts, develop team members, and maintain high standards for guests. The role focuses on delivering quality food and service, building guest loyalty, and supporting a culture of warmth, belonging, growth, and trust. The position 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 old.
Ability to lead shifts and direct, motivate, coach, and develop others in a fast-paced environment.
ServSafe certification or ability to obtain certification.
Ability to work 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 six hours.
Ability to communicate clearly and quickly understand guests’ and associates’ directions in a loud environment.
Must pass a background check as a condition of a job offer.

Nice To Haves

One or more years of restaurant management experience.

Responsibilities

Ensure every guest is delighted by the quality of the food, service, and staff.
Build engaging relationships that encourage long-term guest loyalty.
Lead, manage, coach, inspire, motivate, and develop team members to exceed goals in sales, speed, order accuracy, and guest experience, and 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.