Trainee Bakery Manager

Job Description

Merchandising Management:

• Conduct regular quality check on merchandise.
• Execute plano guide 100%.
• Handle product as per SOP.
• Ensure products are produced according to recipe specification.
• Ensure department is ready for trade by store opening time.
• Identify fast selling lines within store, and implication on margin and sale opportunity.
• Ensure product is wrapped and packed according to standard.
• Ensure sufficient product available for customer demand.
• Ensure compliance to hygiene, housekeeping and safe working standard.
• Monitor the implementation of all promotional activities – adherence to promotional calendar.
• Back up areas are kept clean and clear.
• Follow sell by date, rotates stock as per policy/SOP on sale floor and back up area.
• Throughout day ensure department merchandising and cleanliness standard are maintained, keeping waste to a minimum.

Food Safety & Hygiene:

Ensure that hygiene and housekeeping standard are maintained. 

Ensure stock rotation. 

Monitor the adherence to food safety and health and safety standard are maintained. 

Manage Non-Conformance via effective corrective action. 

Implement cleaning schedule and check effective cleaning and sanitation. 

Recording of Food Safety Daily Checklist.

 

Customer Services Management:

Respond to customer requests. 

Answers queries on out of stock - assists with replacement products, explains time to next delivery and issue which may be affecting stock availability.  

Ensure department standards are maintained, equipment is manned and in working order. 

 

Staff Management:

Communicates critical information to staff. 

Set target and activity – priority, delegate and communicate. 

Handles procedural, policy and legislative non compliance. 

Attend monthly regional meetings - take information back to staff - responds to queries on turnover/waste.  

Check and amends Kronos scheduling.

Coach staff.

 

Administration:

Ensure that all equipment is properly maintained in effective working order. 

Ensure that general maintenance standard are met.

Monitor waste, and ensures procedure are adhered to.

Monitor turnover and identifies opportunity for increasing turnover and identifies and issue or barriers to achieving budget. 

 

Systems:

Gap scanning out of stocks.

Identify, counts, and records out of stocks & over stocks.

Draws excel report from SAP, communicate addresses stock concerns by completing excel sheet and sending to Demand Planning.

Process IDTs via SAP.

Action reduced to clear on SAP as per SOP  

Check for electronic communications regularly during the working day  

Process waste.

Ensure PID’s are counted correctly as per the National P & L schedule.

Qualifications and Skills

Minimum Requirements:

Preferably NQF 3 Bakery qualification.

Minimum 2 – 3 years’ experience in a supervisory role.

Experience as a Baker / Bakery Supervisor/ Manager.

Location

Norwood - Gauteng