Local Manager Bakery at PnP

Pick n Pay; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A major retail company in South Africa is seeking a Bakery Supervisor to manage resources efficiently, ensuring high standards in the bakery department. Responsibilities include staff management, quality control, and maintaining hygiene standards. Applicants must have a Matric/Grade 12 and a NQF 3 Bakery qualification, along with 2-4 years of experience in a supervisory role. This position offers an opportunity to shape operations in a new store opening in Stellenbosch.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years' experience as a Baker/Bakery Supervisor/Manager.
• Ability to manage staff and communicate effectively.
• Experience in production planning and merchandising.

Responsibilities

• Conduct regular quality checks on merchandise.
• Respond to customer requests and manage queries.
• Ensure hygiene and safety standards are maintained.

Skills

Achieving results through others

Planning and organizing

Customer orientation

Communication skills

Bakery skills

Education

Matric/Grade 12

NQF 3 Bakery qualification

Tools

SAP

Job description

Role Summary

To manage resources in order to maximise turnover and minimise shortage. Ensures that standards, processes and policies are adhered to. This is a new local store that will be opening up and will be located in Stellenbosch between Kayamandi and Cloetesville.

Requirements

• Matric/ Grade 12
• NQF 3 Bakery qualification
• 2- 4 years' experience as a Baker / Bakery Supervisor/ Manager

Competencies

• Achieving results through others
• Plan, organize and follow up on activities and plans
• Adhere to standards and policies
• Customer Orientation
• Communication skills - clearly conveying message and actively listening
• Business mindedness
• Bakery Skills
• Production Planning

Key Responsibilities

• Merchandising Management
  • Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise
  • Executes plano guide 100%
  • Handles product as per SOP
  • Ensures products are produced according to recipe specifications
  • Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time
  • Identifies fast selling lines within store, and implications on margin and sales opportunities
  • Ensures sufficient product available for customer demand
  • Ensures compliance to hygiene, housekeeping and safe working standards
  • Monitors the implementation of all promotional activities
  • Back up areas are kept clean and clear
  • Follows sell by dates, rotates stock as per policy/SOP on sales floor and back up area
  • Throughout day ensures department merchandising and cleanliness standards are maintained, keeping waste to a minimum
• Food Safety & Hygiene
  • Ensures that hygiene and housekeeping standards are maintained
  • Ensures stock rotation
  • Monitors the adherence to food safety and health and safety standards are maintained
  • Manages Non-Conformances via effective corrective action
  • Implements cleaning schedules and checks effective cleaning and sanitation
  • Recording of Food Safety Daily Checklist
• Customer Services Management
  • Responds to customer requests
  • Answers queries on out of stock – assists with replacement products, explains time to next delivery and issues which may be affecting stock availability
  • Ensures department standards are maintained, equipment is manned and in working order
• Staff Management
  • Communicates critical information to staff
  • Set targets and activities – priorities, delegates and communicates
  • Handles procedural, policy and legislative noncompliance
  • Attends monthly regional meetings – take information back to staff – responds to queries on turnover/waste
  • Checks and amends Kronos scheduling
  • Coaches staff
• Administration
  • Ensures that all equipment is properly maintained in effective working order
  • Ensures that general maintenance standards are met
  • Monitors waste, and ensures procedures are adhered to
  • Monitors turnover and identifies opportunities for increasing turnover and identifies and issues or barriers to achieving budgets
  • Ensures all SEL in place – print out and ensure all products have SEL current and legible by customer
• Systems
  • Gap scanning out of stocks
  • Identifies, counts, and records out of stocks & over stocks
  • Draws excel report from SAP, communicate addresses stock concerns by completing excel sheet and sending to Demand Planning
  • Processes IDTs via SAP
  • Actions reduced to clear on SAP as per SOP
  • Checks for electronic communications regularly during the working day
  • Processes waste
  • Ensure PID's are counted correctly as per the National P & L schedule

Closing date: 13 December 2025