Central Market Bakery Production Manager - HTX

Houston, Texas

Full-time

25 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities: Job Summary: As a CM Bakery Production Manager, responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the
Bakery department, and get to know our Customers, and treat them to excellent service. Supervises a team of Partners.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

Management
- Majority of the time spent using independent judgment in making employment-related and business decisions, or effectively recommend such decisions including but not limited to product and department related strategies, hiring, promoting, disciplining, suspending, discharging, rewarding or otherwise engaging in resolving Partner-related matters
- Responsible for interviews, performance reviews and Partner feedback, and training and developing Partners as well as writing department schedules
- Provides superior customer service and develops and leads a team to provide customer service at the highest level in all areas
Production
- Ensures production schedule and quantities are made to meet forecast
- Ensures product delivered to customers is of optimum quality and presentation and in-stock conditions are maintained
- Maintains a high degree of product knowledge
- Supports Bakery Manager with daily duties, as needed and with weekly duties such as conducting weekly forecasting and production planning for product assortment
- Effectively manages product waste
Sales
- Supports Bakery Manager with monitoring product assortment, shrink, labor, and wrap expenses to meet budget goals
- Supports product ordering and inventory controls with order writer
- Ensures appropriate planning with Bakery Manager to meet weekly and long-term budget goals
- Accountable for selling products for promotional and special events throughout the store
- Accountable for merchandising department to maximize sales, ensuring appropriate abundance and effective presentation through signage and art display and effective promotion of services and products
- Maintains multiple vendor relationships
Food Safety/Sanitation
- Ensures that all government and company regulations and standards for product freshness, safety, refrigeration and sanitation are met
- Oversees the organization and rotation of coolers
- Works with Food Safety leader to conduct regular ORT, self-assessments, and meet other Food Safety requirements

The responsibilities and essential functions outlined above describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Duties and responsibilities may be modified at any time based on business needs. Employees may be required to perform other job-related tasks as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.

Qualifications & Key Requirements:

Work Experience:

Tortilla production experience is preferred -
Proven experience in Bakery production -
Experience managing teams of at least bakers and experience training new bakers to achieve proficiency -
Experience in planning production and sanitation standards -

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Ability to troubleshoot recipe/product issues -
Pastry: Knowledge in all basics components manufacturing (Buttercream/Icings, cooked Creams and curds, Pate a choux, Sponge and Cheesecakes. Experience working with rack ovens, kettle, 80 to 140qt Mixers -
Bakery/Bread: Knowledge European style baking using complex preferment (Levain, Sponge/Poolish). Experience working with Deck ovens, rack ovens, bread divider, bread divider rounder -
Must be able to work flexible shifts -

Education:

Graduation from a Baking/Pastry school is -

Licenses/Certifications:

Physical Demands & Working Conditions:

Function in a fast-paced, retail environment, in detailed and precise tasks
Work with Customers, staying attentive to their needs
Occasionally reaches at overhead, reaches at shoulder, reaches at knee, reaches at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, pivot, twist, arm push/pull, pinch, utilize fine motor skills
Frequently stand, walk
Constantly reaches at waist, grasp
Must be able to demonstrate the ability to lift up to 50 lbs
Must be able to demonstrate the ability to manage in excess of 70 lbs. It is the responsibility of the individual partner to never lift beyond his/her own safe lifting limit. If the partner feels that an item is too heavy to lift, push/pull, and/or carry, the partner must: (1) break the box down into lighter/smaller, more manageable components, which he/she is comfortable with safely handling; (2) ask for assistance from another partner; or (3) ask for assistance from a manager.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is: Occasionally exposed to hot, cold, loud noises and wet conditions.
*While there may be exceptions, the measurements noted are generally defined as: (Occasional: 0-2.5 Hours, Frequently: 2.5-5.5 Hours, Constantly: 5.5+. Based on an 8-hour workday)

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Last revised: 02/01/2025

Numbers & Facts

Location	Houston, Texas
Job Type	Full-time

Skills

Bakeryunmatched
Bakery Departmentunmatched
Budgetingunmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
Food Safetyunmatched
Forecastingunmatched
Government Regulationsunmatched
Heavy Liftingunmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Inventory Managementunmatched
Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
Manufacturingunmatched
Merchandisingunmatched
Performance Reviewsunmatched
Physical Demandsunmatched
Product Managementunmatched
Product Planningunmatched
Product Safetyunmatched
Product Supportunmatched
Production Managementunmatched
Production Planningunmatched
Production Scheduleunmatched
Qt GUI (Graphical User Interface) Toolkitunmatched
Refrigerationunmatched
Retailunmatched
Revenue Growthunmatched
Safety Trainingunmatched
Salesunmatched
Sales Promotionsunmatched
Sanitationunmatched
Schedule Developmentunmatched
Team Lead/Managerunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched

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