Bakery Lead - Store

About Us

Northgate Gonzalez Market has grown from one store in Anaheim in 1980 to over 40 locations across Southern California, and we’re looking for passionate, customer-focused team members to join our family. We offer flexible schedules, opportunities for growth, and an associate discount of up to 20% for you and your household—all in a positive and fun work environment where you’ll feel valued and appreciated.

If you’re enthusiastic, team-oriented, and ready to build a career with us, we’d love to meet you.

The essential duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 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 experience 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…