Bakery Department Lead — Fresh, Customer-Focused Ops

The Save Mart Companies; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

The Save Mart Companies in Sacramento, CA is seeking a Bakery Manager for Food Maxx at 3291 Truxel Rd. You will lead the bakery department, ensuring high-quality products, customer satisfaction, and efficient operations.

Responsibilities include managing staff, inventory, and display, while maintaining food safety and meeting banner guidelines. Experience in bakery or related department management is required, with a flexible schedule across retail hours.

Qualifications

• One year of college or equivalent knowledge gained through education, specialized training, or additional job experience.
• Two years Bakery Department experience – or - in current Produce, Meat, or Center Store Department Manager role.
• Available to work a variety of required retail hours.
• Requires standing and lifting up to 40 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Provides customers with a remarkable shopping experience by training and supervising store staff to deliver excellent service.
• Manages department financials including sales, profit and loss, projections, metrics and analysis.
• Leads department staff to meet high performance standards and accountability.
• Implements visual merchandising and planograms emphasizing fresh products.
• Oversees back room, inventory, rotation, spoilage, shrink, and markdowns.
• Ensures bakery products are prepared per banner guidelines and special orders are fulfilled.

Skills

Communication

Customer service

Leadership

Organization

Bakery knowledge

Food safety

Decoration techniques

Merchandising

Equipment handling

Union knowledge

Education

One year college

Job description

Bakery Manager - Food Maxx - 3291 Truxel Rd., Sacramento, CA 95833

We are California’s largest regional, full-service grocery chain, founded over 70 years ago in Modesto, California, where our headquarters are still located today. With 194 stores across Central and Northern California and Western Nevada, our banners—Save Mart, Lucky, and FoodMaxx—are cherished regional brands, serving the unique needs of their communities.

It’s our 12,000 passionate associates who make our company a great place to work and shop. We prioritize investing in our people, stores, and neighborhoods, and work closely with local suppliers to bring fresh, quality products at affordable prices to our customers. Shoppers can access our offerings in-store, online, or through convenient home delivery and curbside pick-up.

The Save Mart Companies is part of The Jim Pattison Group, a family-owned, diversified holding company operating primarily in the U.S. and Canada and headquartered in Vancouver, BC. The Jim Pattison Group has a long-term strategic focus to see their companies succeed and grow. Together, our dedication to our associates and customers, commitment to growth and innovation, and our family traditions continue to thrive

We are currently recruiting for the position of:

Bakery Manager - Food Maxx - 3291 Truxel Rd., Sacramento, CA 95833

The Bakery Department Manager ensures that our customers’ needs are met and exceeded through effective day-to-day management of the operations and merchandising functions for the assigned department. This position oversees department product and conditions to include, preparation and display areas, back room, equipment, schematics, and inventory.

The Bakery Department Manager provides leadership and direction to Department associates to promote a culture reflective of The Save Mart Companies mission statement and winning behaviors.This position trains and develops employees to enable their success and ability to advance in their careers.The Manager manages performance and productivity to optimize department performance goals.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities :

• Provides customers with a remarkable shopping experience by demonstrating, training, and holding store associates accountable for excellent customer service

• Achieves department financials (sales, profit and loss, projections, metrics, and analysis) by identifying, defining, and implementing best department practices and optimization strategies utilizing innovative solutions

• Directly leads department staff with focus on accountability and achieving high level of business performance outcomes for department

• Implements department’s visual merchandising and plan providing innovative solutions, emphasizing “fresh”

• Effectively utilizes resources to improve productivity, flexibility and efficiencies of labor, and quality of shopping experience

• Oversees schematic implementation, stocking standards, item to tag integrity, back room organization

• Manages product rotation, spoils, shrink, and markdowns

• Manages sign and price integrity

• Manages department to ensure bakery products are prepared according to banner guidelines and special orders are prepared as requested by customers (e.g., special occasion cakes)

• Trains department staff on department procedures, to include food preparation and packaging, hands-on safety, food safety, department planning tools

• Orders product (utilizes order/inventory system, pre-orders, promotion/seasonal planning)

• Analyzes and manages to product performance to maximize sales and profitability

• Manages the accuracy of department inventory

• Contributes to overall store conditions (to include store safety, food safety, sanitation, hazardous waste, protection of company assets, etc.) ensuring a safe working and shopping experience

• Performs other duties as assigned

Hiring pay range: $29.10 - 29.10

Requirements (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities) :

•Excellent communication, interpersonal, leadership/team building and training skills

•Excellent customer service skills and suggestive selling ability

•Strong organization, administration (to include department financial) and math skills

•Knowledge of:

o Department operations and financials
o Bakery products
o Department food safety and hazardous materials rules/regulations
o Baking and decorating techniques
o Visual merchandising techniques
o Use and care of professional bakery equipment and tools
o Applicable union contractual agreement language

Education: One year of college (or equivalent knowledge gained through formal education, specialized training, or additional job experience)

Experience:Two years Bakery Department experience – or - in current Produce, Meat, or Center Store Department Manager role

Other: Available to work a variety of required retail hours

Physical: Requires standing and other physical movements on a frequent basis.Requires lifting up to 40 lbs.

•Personal/Interpersonal Skills

Reference: req41914

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The Save Mart Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome resumes from individuals who will contribute to our diverse workforce.