Position Summary

This position will require strong management skills paired with skilled bakery experience to lead a successful bakery team. You will be expected to operate within set ranges for labor and purchase budgets. Focus will also be on creating and setting successful and innovative merchandising displays throughout the department based on season and product offerings.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Schedules staff to cover peak days/times, and within set labor budgets
• Places appropriate product orders based on sales, store demand while staying within budget
• Maintain current product knowledge and bakery trends
• Properly trains, manages, and develops department staff
• Ensures a positive and productive workflow in the bakery department which can include coordinating breaks based on employee schedule, enforcing uniform policy, and prioritizing accountability with tasks given to associates
• Maintains work areas in a sanitized and orderly manner in compliance with state health and safety regulations and has food safety knowledge
• Maintains a current knowledge of product
• Provides excellent customer service
• Abides by Westborn Market’s time and attendance policy

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Ability to write legibly and read with comprehension at a level where it applies to this position
• Ability to multi-task with strong attention to detail
• Ability to communicate effectively through verbal, written, and electronic communication.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. Work involves considerable exposure to unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, unpleasant odors, and/or loud noises. Moderate physical activity. Requires handling of average-weight objects up to 25 pounds or standing, and/or walking for more than four (4) hours per day. Work environment involves some exposure to hazards or physical risks, which require following basic safety precautions.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.