Assistant Bakery Manager

At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.

At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.

The Assistant Bakery Manager supports the Bakery Manager in leading daily bakery operations, maintaining product quality and freshness, delivering excellent customer service, and developing a strong bakery team. This position helps ensure the department is clean, well-stocked, properly merchandised, and operated safely and efficiently.

• Assist the Bakery Manager with the overall operation and performance of the Bakery Department.
• Provide leadership, direction, and support to bakery associates throughout the workday.
• Help train, coach, and develop associates on department procedures, product standards, food safety, sanitation, and customer service.
• Ensure bakery products are prepared, packaged, labeled, displayed, and rotated according to established standards.
• Monitor product freshness, quality, presentation, and availability throughout the department.
• Maintain attractive, full, and properly merchandised displays that promote sales and meet customer expectations.
• Assist with production planning to ensure appropriate quantities of bread, cakes, pastries, desserts, and other bakery products are available.
• Help manage inventory levels, ordering, receiving, product rotation, and shrink.
• Monitor out-of-stocks and adjust production or ordering as needed.
• Provide friendly, knowledgeable service and assist customers with product questions, special orders, and department requests.
• Support cake orders and other customer-specific bakery requests to ensure accuracy and timely completion.
• Maintain department cleanliness and ensure equipment, work areas, displays, coolers, and storage areas meet sanitation standards.
• Ensure associates follow food safety, personal hygiene, temperature control, and safe food-handling procedures.
• Promote safe working practices and immediately address potential safety hazards.
• Assist with associate scheduling and daily work assignments based on business and production needs.
• Help monitor labor and productivity while ensuring adequate coverage for customer service and production.
• Support department sales, profitability, shrink, and operational goals.
• Conduct department walks and identify opportunities related to merchandising, conditions, cleanliness, freshness, and in-stock performance.
• Assist with opening and closing responsibilities as assigned.
• Take responsibility for department operations in the Bakery Manager's absence.
• Partner with store leadership and other departments to support overall store priorities and events.
• Perform additional duties as assigned based on business needs.

• Lead by example and demonstrate a…