Trainee Bakery Manager at PnP

Introduction

To manage resources in order to maximize turnover and minimize shortage. Ensures that standards, processes, and policies are adhered to.

This position serves as a valuable opportunity for career advancement toward becoming a Bakery Manager.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Merchandising Management

• Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise.
• Executes plano guide 100%.
• Handles product as per SOP.
• Ensures products are produced according to recipe specifications.
• Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time.
• Identifies fast selling lines within store, and implications on margin and sales opportunities.
• Ensures product is wrapped and packed according to standards.
• Ensures sufficient product available for customer demand.
• Ensures compliance to hygiene, housekeeping, and safe working standards.
• Monitors the implementation of all promotional activities - adherence to promotional calendar.
• Back up areas are kept clean and clear.
• Follows sell by dates, rotates stock as per policy/SOP on sales floor and back up area.
• Throughout the day ensures department merchandising and cleanliness standards are maintained, keeping waste to a minimum.

• Ensures that hygiene and housekeeping standards are maintained.
• Ensures stock rotation.
• Monitors the adherence to food safety and health and safety standards.
• Manages Non-Conformances via effective corrective action.
• Implements cleaning schedules and checks effective cleaning and sanitation.
• Recording of Food Safety Daily Checklist.

• Responds to customer requests.
• Answers queries on out of stock - assists with replacement products, explains time to next delivery and issues which may be affecting stock availability.
• Ensures department standards are maintained; equipment is manned and in working order.

• Communicates critical information to staff.
• Sets targets and activities - priorities, delegates and communicates.
• Handles procedural, policy, and legislative noncompliance.
• Attends monthly regional meetings - takes information back to staff - responds to queries on turnover/waste.
• Checks and amends Kronos scheduling.
• Coaches staff.

• Ensures that all equipment is properly maintained in effective working order.
• Ensures that general maintenance standards are met.
• Monitors waste, and ensures procedures are adhered to.
• Monitors turnover and identifies opportunities for increasing turnover and identifies any issues or barriers to achieving budgets.
• Ensures all SEL in place - print out and ensure all products have SEL current and legible by customer.

• Gap scanning out of stocks.
• Identifies, counts, and records out of stocks & over stocks.
• Draws excel report from SAP, communicates addresses stock concerns by completing excel sheet and sending to Demand Planning.
• Processes IDTs via SAP.
• Actions reduced to clear on SAP as per SOP.
• Checks for electronic communications regularly during the working day.
• Processes waste.
• Ensures PID's are counted correctly as per the National P & L schedule.

Experience & Qualification

• Must be a qualified baker.
• Minimum of 2 years in a supervisory position advantageous.

Competencies

• Achieving results through others.
• Plan, organize and follow up on activities and plans.
• Adhere to standards and policies.
• Customer Orientation.
• Communication skills - clearly conveying message and actively listening.
• Business mindedness.
• Bakery Skills.
• Production Planning.

Seniority level

• Internship

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing
• Industries
• Retail