Bakery Manager

JustTheJob.co.za; Potchefstroom; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Bakery Manager to lead operations in Potchefstroom. This role involves overseeing bakery production, ensuring financial targets are met, and maintaining high-quality standards. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing bakery operations, implementing best practices, and fostering a high-performance culture. You will be responsible for driving profitability, optimizing processes, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Join a dynamic team committed to excellence and innovation in the bakery sector, where your leadership will make a significant impact on operations and community engagement.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years as Plant Bakery Manager in FMCG with high production rates.
• Strong knowledge of financial planning and cost control principles.

Responsibilities

• Drive profitable operations while ensuring adherence to budgets and financial targets.
• Ensure operational excellence through effective management of service providers.
• Foster a quality-first mindset and continuous improvement in product quality.

Skills

Bakery manufacturing best practices

Financial acumen

Leadership and People management

Sales and customer relations management

Continuous improvement practices

Risk / HSE requirements

Distribution management

Strategy translation

Education

South African Chamber of Baking Qualification

Manufacturing Academy Qualification / equivalent National qualification

Business related qualification

Job description

Bakery Manager - Potchefstroom

Job Description

To plan, direct and coordinate bakery operations by overseeing the HOD team responsible for sustained and profitable bakery operations including distributions and sales, in line with the requirements of the Bakeries strategy and budgets, also ensuring a high performance culture (The Premier way).

Qualification Requirements

• South African Chamber of Baking Qualification
• Manufacturing Academy Qualification / equivalent National qualification
• Business related qualification

Experience Requirements

• Plant Bakery Manager in FMCG at a plant producing min 5000-6000 loaves per hour, 5-7 years

Essential Skills / Knowledge

• Bakery manufacturing best practices and process requirements
• Strategy translation, scorecard cascading and performance management
• Financial acumen, planning, budgeting and cost control principles
• Risk / HSE requirements for industry
• Leadership and People management principles
• Sales and customer relations management principles and processes for formal and informal markets
• Asset management best practices
• Distribution management for all channels
• Continuous improvement practices

Key Outputs

What will you do:

• Drive profitable and cost effective operations through adherence to budget and financial targets, adherence to all management SOP’s and controls, reviewing financial statements, sales or activity reports, or other performance data to measure goal achievement, identifying areas needing cost reduction, improvements or corrective action.
• Ensure operational excellence through the management of outsourced service provider performance in line with agreed service level agreements.
• Ensure consistent top-quality product for our consumers by creating a quality first mindset, implementing, maintaining and improving the quality management system, and fostering continuous improvement of the same.
• Ensure continuous improvement of operations through the planning, implementation, management and optimization of the site equipment and processes for optimal productivity in line with the full capacity of the plant.
• Stimulate customer demand to utilize full capacity of the bakery by delivering cost effective quality products and ensuring cost effective distribution, sales, marketing, CSI and customer relationships.
• Ensure people capacity by creating a competent workforce able to deliver on their scorecards in line with the requirements of their roles and targets through training and development.
• Ensure an engaged and high performing workforce by owning, living and driving the Premier way through the leadership team, ongoing coaching and mentoring.
• Earn the right to operate in your community by ensuring good governance in terms of quality production, building relationships with key customers and distributors, ensuring proactive meetings with local retailers, supporting bakery sales team with problems/customer complaints as needed, and identifying and driving the implementation of CSI initiatives with the relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure asset management on site through implementation of effective maintenance best practices.
• Ensure effective health, safety, environmental and risk management by advocating a health and safety culture, implementing and adhering to all HSER policies, procedures and practices, ongoing awareness and training, implementing waste and loss control practices, and ensuring legal compliance.