Bakery Manager- 841 Tucker Rd, Tehachapi, CA 93561

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Tehachapi (CA)

On-site

USD 41,000 - 44,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

Life and AD&D

401K

Tuition reimbursement

Scholarships

Vacation and personal holidays

Employee discounts

Job summary

The Save Mart Companies in Tehachapi, CA is seeking a Bakery Manager to lead the bakery department, ensuring quality, freshness, and customer satisfaction. You will oversee daily operations, staff development, and merchandising to meet store goals and community needs.

You will manage inventory, production schedules, and department standards while coaching team members to deliver exceptional service and safe, compliant food handling. This role offers competitive pay and benefits.

Qualifications

Requires strong customer service and leadership skills.
Experience in bakery operations and food safety protocols.
Ability to train and develop department staff and manage inventory.

Responsibilities

Provide customers with excellent service and train associates to uphold standards.
Meet department financial targets through sales, margin, and productivity improvements.
Lead bakery staff with accountability and high performance; ensure fresh, well-merchandised products.
Implement visual merchandising and department planning to highlight fresh offerings.
Oversee inventory, rotation, spoilage, signs, and pricing integrity.

Skills

Customer service

Leadership

Communication

Training staff

Food safety

Bakery operations

Inventory management

Staff scheduling

Education

One year of college

Job description

Bakery Manager- 841 Tucker Rd, Tehachapi, CA 93561

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- 841 Tucker Rd, Tehachapi, CA 93561

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
Personal/Interpersonal Skills

Someofour competitive offerings include generous benefits packages (Health, Dental,Vision, Life and AD&D, 401K), tuition reimbursement and scholarshipopportunities, vacation and personal holidays, and in-store purchase discounts.

Hiring pay range: $30.82 - 30.82

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