Experience managing teams of bakers and training new bakers to achieve proficiency.
Experience planning production and maintaining sanitation standards.
Ability to troubleshoot recipe and product issues.
Knowledge of pastry basics, including buttercream and icings, cooked creams and curds, pâte à choux, sponge cakes, and cheesecakes.
Experience working with rack ovens, kettles, and 80- to 140-quart mixers.
Knowledge of European-style bread baking using complex preferments such as levain, sponge, and poolish.
Experience working with deck ovens, rack ovens, bread dividers, and bread divider-rounders.
Ability to work flexible shifts.
Ability to perform detailed and precise tasks in a fast-paced retail environment and remain attentive to customer needs.
Ability to perform the listed physical activities and frequently stand and walk; constantly reach at waist level and grasp; and lift up to 50 pounds. Must manage items over 70 pounds by safely breaking them down or requesting assistance rather than exceeding personal safe lifting limits.
Ability to work with occasional exposure to hot, cold, loud, and wet conditions.
Responsibilities
Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the Bakery department while providing excellent customer service.
Use independent judgment to make or recommend employment-related and business decisions, including product and department strategies and decisions about hiring, promotion, discipline, suspension, discharge, rewards, and other Partner-related matters.
Interview, review performance, provide feedback, train and develop Partners, and write department schedules.
Lead a team to provide customer service at the highest level.
Ensure production schedules and quantities meet forecasts.
Ensure products delivered to customers meet quality and presentation standards and maintain in-stock conditions.
Maintain product knowledge.
Support the Bakery Manager with daily duties and weekly forecasting and production planning for the product assortment.
Manage product waste effectively.
Support the Bakery Manager in monitoring product assortment, shrink, labor, and wrap expenses to meet budget goals.
Support product ordering and inventory controls with the order writer.
Plan with the Bakery Manager to meet weekly and long-term budget goals.
Sell products for promotional and special events throughout the store.
Merchandise the department to maximize sales by ensuring appropriate abundance, effective presentation, signage and art displays, and promotion of services and products.
Maintain relationships with multiple vendors.
Ensure government and company regulations and standards for product freshness, safety, refrigeration, and sanitation are met.
Oversee the organization and rotation of coolers.
Work with the Food Safety leader to conduct regular ORT and self-assessments and meet other food safety requirements.
Desired Qualifications
Tortilla production experience.
Graduation from a baking or pastry school.
Overview
Central Market is a specialty grocery that started in Austin, Texas in 1994, and has grown to multiple locations across the state. What makes
Central Market one of the freshest markets in the country - Try a sumptuous selection of everything edible, for starters. We go straight to the source to bring you the finest food and drink the world has to offer. With hundreds of cheeses, thousands of wines, acres of produce, and aisles of experts,
Central Market is a foodie’s wonderland. Our commitment beyond the plate is another reason we’re a cut above. We believe food is a way of uniting families and communities, of preserving cultures, and of starting new traditions. Each of our stores is a market in the truest sense and is a place to exchange goods, services, and ideas for those really into food.
Job Description
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