Bakery Manager

Bakery Manager

As one of Palmerston North’s largest Bakeries, we strive to offer our customers excellent service, and baked goods of a very high quality. Our bakery has an excellent reputation for our scratch made cakes, biscuits, slices, pastries, and our wide range of artisan breads.

This role is a key part of the Bakery Team and ideally you will have a Bakery qualification and experience working in a Bakery. Main duties would include the day to day running of our Bakery and Bakery Team.

Essential Experience:

• Computer Literate
• Retail experience to supervisory level or previous department management experience.
• Physically fit and able to fulfil the requirements of the role.

Ideally you will:

• Have experience in a Supermarket / Commercial Bakery.
• Be capable of taking on a leadership role and assisting with the development of new employees.
• Be able to multitask and prioritise workloads.
• Have the ability to effectively communicate at all levels.
• Have a high degree of self motivation.
• Be a team player.
• Be able to comply with our Health and Safety and Food Safety standards.
• Unit standards 167, 168 and 497.
• Qualified Baker

You will be accountable for:

• Enhancing the reputation of the business by promoting and encouraging ‘best practice’ levels or customer service.
• Ensuring sales and GP targets for the department are met.
• Maintaining 100% price integrity in the department.
• Controlling ordering for the department through effective use of the instore purchasing systems.
• Controlling department costs.
• Undertaking the assigned tasks of a Baker as required.
• Achieving cost goals through monitoring department systems in an effective and timely manner.
• Ensuring all staff management practices within the department comply with store policies on employment, health and safety etc.
• Supporting the development of the store’s culture by working with the rest of the management team.
• Providing clear and consistent direction to the Bakery Team.
• Setting and upholding standards of products, service and behaviour.
• Acting with confidence, authority, integrity and empathy.
• Actively building team spirit.
• Clearly communicating the goals and objectives of the business.
• Working in a systematic way, putting systems and processes in place to ensure compliance and consistent levels of service despite changes in staff or suppliers.
• Having effective time management.
• Actively setting, monitoring and maintaining consistently high standards of customer service.

The position is full time, 40 - 45 hours a week. Hours and days are to be negotiated with the successful applicant – there is a requirement to work one weekend day.

If you are passionate about baking and committed to excellent customer service, then please apply!

• If you have not heard from us by 4th November 2026, you have been unsuccessful for this position.