Assistant Bakery Manager

Looking for a company that treats associates with respect, understanding, and appreciation? Looking for a company that is passionate about teamwork and the growth of it's associates and communities? That's WEIS!

Location Address: 2160 White Street

Job Description:

• Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer focused behavior with associates.
• Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions and helps resolve customer issues promptly in a polite and professional manner.
• Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress.
• Takes customer orders over the phone or in person at the store with a pleasant and positive attitude.
• Determines what the customer is looking for in terms of size, flavor and appearance.
• Creates the finished decorated product in timely fashion.
• Decorates cakes and other bakery products using dye, specific designs or by creating custom designs.
• Uses variety of creams, frostings and fillings with consistent outcome.
• Makes icing for cakes and other related products.
• Adheres to company approved recipes.
• Assists Bakery Manager in day-to-day functions of Bakery operations such as merchandising, ad execution, associate engagement and customer service.
• Performs duties of Bakery Manager in their absence.
• Oversees department inventories by tracking weekly sales reports, product orders and supplies to ensure successful period-end physical inventory.
• Assists with scheduling all Bakery associates, participates in training, rewards and recognizes performance and delegates work assignments to effectively utilize talents and abilities while maximizing profits for the department.
• Utilizes the Learning Management System (LMS) current and new associates.
• Develops and implements merchandising plans that meet financial goals.
• Knowledgeable on weekly ads and specials to ensure correct pricing and production amounts.
• Continuously improves knowledge of produced merchandise.
• Adheres to and enforces company policy of production logs.
• Checks and verifies all department deliveries and invoices to ensure accurate billing.
• May help unload merchandise and transport to sales floor or storage area.
• Enforces and follows department practices regarding receiving, dating and restocking to ensure product rotation.
• Monitors product quality and freshness.
• Breaks down deliveries.
• Controls department expenses by improving operations and efficiencies, controls labor costs and reduces losses due to damages, spoiled product and shrink.
• Ensures associates correctly follow company recipes for prepared products.
• Maintains freshness by properly removing and recording out of code products.
• Completes required product logs.
• Keeps bakery department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demand.
• Smiles and greets customers, makes suggestions, answers questions about various products.
• Helps resolve customer concerns in a prompt and courteous manner.
• Ensures that merchandise is fresh, in saleable condition and properly priced with the correct signage.
• Handles spoiled and damaged product, or product that is close to expiration, according to company procedures and standards.
• Removes product that is not saleable to ensure quality.
• May assist with the production of breads, pastries and other baked goods to sell.
• Adheres to use of production logs and company approved recipes.
• Ensures smooth workflow within department by cooperating with co-workers and superiors.
• Strive to continuously improve job performance.
• Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE). Including but not limited to cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, company sponsored footwear, etc.
• May also be called upon to assist in other…