Assistant Manager Bakery-FT

Thrifty Foods; Nanaimo; On-site; CAD 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrifty Foods is hiring bakers to join their team in Nanaimo, offering a chance to work in a vibrant bakery environment. Candidates should bring strong customer service and baking skills, with opportunities for career growth and professional development. Enjoy a comprehensive rewards package that supports physical, financial, and emotional well-being. Join us and help create exceptional shopping experiences for our community.

Benefits

Competitive Benefits Package

Access to Virtual Health Care

Retirement and Savings Plan

10% in-store discount at participating banners

Learning and Development Resources

Parental leave top-up

Paid Vacation and Days-off

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service, communication and leadership skills are essential.
• Thorough understanding of health and safety legislation is an asset.
• Certification as a registered apprentice or journeyman baker is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily essentials such as fresh bread and cakes.
• Utilize 'from scratch' recipes and participate in baking tasks.
• Hone baking skills with numerous career growth options available.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Leadership

Education

Post-secondary certification

Registered apprentice or certified journeyman baker

Job description

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

Here’s where you’ll be focusing :

If you have a passion for baking or simply love the smell of fresh baked goods, our bakeries offer a wholesome environment where you can develop your career. Providing daily essentials such as fresh bread or creating that perfect cake for a special occasion, our bakery department teams touch the lives of our customers each and every day.

Are you interested in taking it to the next level? Our bakeries continue to incorporate "from scratch" recipes among our product offering, giving our bakers an opportunity to utilize and hone their baking skills on a daily basis. Like all of our store employees, bakery employees have the opportunity to learn about, and participate in numerous areas of retailing with many career growth options. We offer a rewarding work environment that is held to the highest safety and food quality standards. Training is always available!

What you have to offer :

• Excellent customer service, communication and leadership skills
• Thorough understanding of health and safety legislation, policies and practices is an asset
• Post-secondary certification is an asset
• Classification as a registered apprentice or certified journeyman baker is an asset
• Available to work days, evenings, and weekends

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.

Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque :

• Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
• A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
• Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid Vacation and Days-off

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.

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