Team Manager - State College, PA

Panera Bread•State College, PA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Team Manager is part of the bakery-cafe leadership team and helps run effective shifts, develop team members, and maintain the standards guests expect. The role focuses on delivering quality food and service, building guest loyalty, coaching the team to achieve operational and guest-experience goals, supporting hiring, and maintaining food safety. The Team Manager also helps foster a culture of warmth, belonging, growth, and trust.

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.
Flexible availability, 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 guests’ and associates’ directions 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.

Responsibilities

Ensure guests are delighted by the quality of food, service, and staff.
Build engaging relationships that encourage long-term guest loyalty.
Lead, manage, and develop team members through coaching, inspiration, and motivation to achieve goals in sales, speed, order accuracy, and guest experience.
Celebrate team members’ 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.