Bakery Manager - Queensland - Gold Coast - Drakes Supermarkets | Expr3ss!

Drake Supermarkets Pty Ltd; Gold Coast City; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary incentives

Career growth

Promotion potential

Job summary

Drakes Supermarkets invites expressions of interest for a department leader role on the Gold Coast. You will bring strong fresh food retail knowledge and bakery experience, with hands-on leadership to coach and manage team members while controlling costs and rostering.

In this role you will tailor service and product offers to local customers, drive gross profit, and maintain high safety and customer service standards within a dynamic supermarket environment.

Qualifications

• Significant fresh food retail knowledge.
• Bakery experience preferred.
• Experience leading and managing a team.
• Strong cost control and ordering experience.
• Good understanding of gross profit calculations.
• Accurate rostering skills.
• Hands-on approach and customer service focus.
• Able to liaise with team members and management.
• Merchandising flair and strong leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead department operations in a competitive supermarket environment.
• Coach and train team members to deliver high service standards.
• Manage ordering, inventory, and cost controls to protect margins.
• Drive merchandising and store presentation to meet local customer needs.

Skills

Fresh food retail knowledge

Bakery experience

Team leadership

Cost control

Gross profit understanding

Rostering accuracy

Hands-on approach

Customer service

Liaise with team and management

Merchandising

Leadership and delegation

Coaching and performance management

Work health and safety standards

Job description

Queensland - Gold Coast Queensland - Gold Coast

This job is open for expressions of interest only

• Attractive salary package and incentives
• Dynamic growing company
• Potential for promotion

Drakes Supermarkets is a Retail industry success story. A family owned and operated private company, we are Australia's largest independently-owned supermarket chain. Due to our unprecedented growth, we provide excellent career opportunities within our company.

The successful applicant will be given the opportunity to treat the department as if it were their own business. They will be given the flexibility to tailor the stores service and products offering to meet the specific needs of the customers within the local area.

Working as a part of an enthusiastic team, in a highly competitive supermarket environment, applicants will be expected to demonstrate:

• Significant fresh food retail knowledge
• Bakery experience (qualifications are not essential)
• Expertise in leading and managing team members
• Ordering and cost control expertise
• An excellent understanding of gross profit calculations
• Accurateteam rostering
• Passion and enthusiasm, with a very "hands on" approach
• Unparalleled commitment to customer service
• Ability to liaise with bothteam membersand management
• A flair for merchandising
• Strong leadership and delegation skills
• Ability to coach, train and performance manageteammembers
• Commitment towork health and safety standards

To succeed within our organisation, applicants must be able to:

• Display a passion for fresh food within the grocery retail industry
• Express a positive "can do" attitude
• Lead by example
• Motivate a team
• Communicate effectively with management, employees, customers and external stakeholders