Trainee Bakery Manager - Stellenbosch

Job title: Trainee Bakery Manager - Stellenbosch

Responsibilities:

• Manage resources to maximize turnover and minimize shortage, ensuring adherence to standards, processes, and policies.
• Conduct regular quality checks on merchandise and handle products as per SOP.
• Ensure products are produced according to recipe specifications and that the department is ready for trade by store opening time.
• Identify fast selling lines within the store and implications on margin and sales opportunities.
• Ensure product is wrapped and packed according to standards and that compliance with hygiene, housekeeping, and safe working standards is maintained.
• Monitor the implementation of all promotional activities and adhere to the promotional calendar.
• Ensure back up areas are kept clean and clear, and follow sell by dates while rotating stock as per policy/SOP.
• Maintain department merchandising and cleanliness standards, keeping waste to a minimum.

Food Safety & Hygiene:

• Ensure hygiene and housekeeping standards are maintained and stock rotation is followed.
• Monitor adherence to food safety and health and safety standards.
• Implement cleaning schedules and check effective cleaning and sanitation.
• Record Food Safety Daily Checklist.

Customer Services Management:

• Respond to customer requests and answer queries on out of stock items, assisting with replacement products and explaining delivery timelines.
• Ensure department standards are maintained and equipment is manned and in working order.

Staff Management:

• Communicate critical information to staff and set targets and activities.
• Handle procedural, policy, and legislative noncompliance.
• Attend monthly regional meetings, relay information back to staff, and respond to queries on turnover and waste.
• Check and amend Kronos scheduling and coach staff.

Administration:

• Ensure all equipment is properly maintained and general maintenance standards are met.
• Monitor waste and ensure procedures are adhered to.
• Monitor turnover, identify opportunities for increasing turnover, and address barriers to achieving budgets.
• Ensure all SEL is current and legible for customers.

Systems:

• Conduct gap scanning for out of stocks and identify, count, and record out of stocks and over stocks.
• Draw excel reports from SAP and communicate stock concerns to Demand Planning.
• Action reduced to clear on SAP as per SOP.
• Check electronic communications regularly during the working day and process waste.
• Ensure PID’s are counted correctly as per the National P & L schedule.