Duty Description
About US:
Ginah’s Bakes specializes in specialty cakes, wedding cakes, cupcakes, pastries and desserts.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Bakery manager will oversee all baking staff to ensure the bakery’s standards are enforced. That means making sure bakery staff comply with customer service and safety policies.
- The incumbent will play a focal role in scheduling tasks for employees whilst mindful about delivery times and in line with the bakery's budget.
Inventory:
- Overseeing inventory involves ordering and rotating ingredients such as flour, sugar, and butter; it also involves receiving and unloading deliveries. Tracking inventory requires calculating the proper amount of ingredients necessary for production of baked goods on a given day or week
- The bakery manager must keep an eye on demand for each kind of pastry to know how much to supply.
Budgeting:
- The Bakery manager is tasked with ensuring the profitability of a bakery which involves working within budget in order to maximize sales.
- The jobholder will participate in pricing of baked goods and tracking sales, labor and inventory costs.
- The incumbent will also be tasked with creating and maintaining daily, monthly and annual budgets
Cleanliness and Safety:
- The incumbent must enforce standards regarding food handling practices, safety and sanitation. This requires knowledge of health department regulations.
- The incumbent will be tasked with the bakery clean, which involves cleaning and organizing display cases, bakery coolers and work areas.
Required Qualifications
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should for the Bakery Manager position should have at least five years working in a baking environment, three of which should be at supervisory level.
- Experience in preparing baked goods such as pastries, breads, cakes and cookies on a large scale
- Ability to innovate new product lines in the industry is desired
- Detail-oriented and have an eye for aesthetics, as baked goods must look appealing.
- Knowledge and experience in producing goods that conform to the quality standards is desired
- High business acumen
- Basic math skills to aid in managing the bakery’s inventory
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send their updated CVs to kajubit@gmail.com