Team Manager

Panera Bread•Elmhurst, IL

10d•$19 - $24•Onsite

About The Position

The Team Manager is part of Panera’s bakery-cafe leadership team and helps run successful shifts, develop team members, and maintain guest-facing standards. The role focuses on delivering high-quality food and service, building loyal guest relationships, coaching the team toward performance goals, supporting hiring, and ensuring food safety standards are followed. The position requires flexible hours, including nights and weekends, and work in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities. A background check is required as a condition of any job offer.

Requirements

At least 18 years of age.
Ability to lead shifts and direct, motivate, coach, and develop others in a fast-paced environment.
ServSafe certification, or the ability to obtain 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 communicate clearly and quickly understand guests’ and associates’ directions in a loud environment.
Offer of employment 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 the 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 in sales, speed, order accuracy, and guest experience; recognize 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.