Bakery Lead - Store

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Our first store opened on January 2nd, 1980, in Anaheim, CA and since then we have grown to 40+ stores in 4 counties:
Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, and the Inland Empire. We offer our customers a full‑service supermarket with a large meat department, bakery, tortilleria and prepared foods in addition to a sizeable section of domestic and imported Latin American grocery goods to provide a Mexican homeland experience. We are always looking for great people to join as a member of the Northgate Family.

We look for enthusiastic people with the potential and desire to grow with us. We strive to create a great work environment that is positive and fun; where people have meaningful work, where individuals have a sense of belonging and feel appreciated, valued and secure. If you are passionate about food, are customer focused, team oriented, and want to be a part of our family, we invite you to apply!

We offer flexible schedules, opportunities for growth, and 20% discount for you and one other family member in your household for most purchases made at Northgate.

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• Maintain a neat, well-groomed personal appearance at all times and observe company dress regulations; enforce grooming standards throughout the department; must wear an approved hat or hair net and clean uniform while in the department and make sure all personnel in the bakery department does the same.
• Responsible for the overall performance of the bakery department when the AM manager is not working.
• Maintain good communications with superiors and subordinates throughout the store.
• Direct and supervise team members in the absence of the bakery manager.
• Perform all the duties and job functions of an experienced baker or cake decorator.
• Assist in supervising and training other Bakery Department personnel.
• Maintain good communications in the department and throughout the organization.
• Notify manager of personnel situations or policy violations having an adverse effect on store operating performance or of situations requiring disciplinary action or that may potentially require such action.
• Perform any other work-related duties as assigned.
• Greet all customers and provide them with prompt and courteous service or assistance.
• Effectively supervise other bakery department personnel and train all new employees.
• Must assure that company values are practiced and taught.
• Must demonstrate managerial courage.
• Be able to hear, speak and understand the spoken word in order to respond promptly to pages for assistance, to accommodate verbal requests from customers for information or assistance, to answer telephones, and to be able to communicate effectively with supervisors, coworkers and customers.

• Comply with all local, state and federal health and civil code regulations.
• Comply with all state, county and local weights and measures laws and labeling requirements.
• Follow approved procedures for receiving product, price marking and restocking to ensure quality protection, accuracy and product rotation.
• Check and verify bakery department receiving to ensure that items listed on vendor invoices are all delivered; check product for quality, count or weight, and condition.
• Take products to preparation or storage area including refrigerated storage boxes.
• Control department expenses and utilize energy conservation practice. Assist in ordering and maintain inventory control to ensure freshness, product quality and turnover for maximum sales and to minimize out-of-stocks or overstocks.
• Follow opening and closing bakery department procedures.
• Greet all customers and provide them with prompt and courteous service or assistance.
• Prepare reports (orders, purchases and sales shrink, processing invoices).
• Follow all inventory control procedures to maximize product freshness, quality, turnover, and availability for maximum sales.
• Be familiar with invoice documents and confirm accuracy of item descriptions, sizes, quantities and pricing during department product deliveries; record invoice documents accurately on the receiving log and place signed invoices in the designated secured area.
• Follow approved bakery department plans for effective space management based on product movement, consumer demand and profitability.
• Keep displays fully stocked and attractively merchandised at all times according to tag allocation, product movement or department standards; sign and display merchandise in a neat manner.
• Keep perishable merchandise rotated in accordance with store policy and product code dates and pull all out-of-code merchandise.
• Observe local competitive activity pertaining to the bakery department and keep others informed.
• Maintain general housekeeping and sanitation standards in compliance with store policy and state and local health regulations on a regular, ongoing basis.
• Follow planned program of maintenance on cases, back-room coolers, ovens and other bakery…