High-Volume Café Manager: Lead, Mentor & Grow

Placed Recruitment; City of Launceston; On-site; AUD 51,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy to implement ideas

Stable daytime trading hours

Long-term career development

Job summary

Placed Recruitment in Launceston seeks a Cafe Manager to lead a busy, high-volume cafe. You’ll coach a passionate team, maintain exceptional guest experiences and drive daily operations from the floor.

Reporting to the owner, you’ll shape service standards, manage rosters, monitor costs and identify opportunities to grow catering and community engagement. This is hands-on leadership with genuine autonomy and long-term career potential.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a busy café, restaurant or premium hospitality venue.
• A natural ability to motivate, coach and develop people.
• Strong commercial awareness with confidence managing labour, costs and performance.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Inspire, coach and develop a passionate hospitality team.
• Foster a positive, supportive and high-performing workplace culture.
• Recruit, onboard and mentor new team members.
• Build capability through ongoing coaching and cross-training.
• Lead by example and create an environment where people genuinely enjoy coming to work.

Skills

Team leadership

Coaching

Labour management

Customer service

Communication

Job description

Placed Recruitment in Launceston seeks a Cafe Manager to lead a busy, high-volume cafe. You’ll coach a passionate team, maintain exceptional guest experiences and drive daily operations from the floor.

Reporting to the owner, you’ll shape service standards, manage rosters, monitor costs and identify opportunities to grow catering and community engagement. This is hands-on leadership with genuine autonomy and long-term career potential.