Bakery & Deli Team Leaders at Tuskys

Job Description

Overall Purpose of the Job:

• Provide overall leadership to the bakery team, responsible for all aspects of daily operations including planning, quality assurance and customer care.
• Key Responsibilities
• Build a positive work environment with outstanding teamwork, mutual respect, and exceptional morale.
• Ensure housekeeping standards are achieved. Ensure that the recipes are followed in the established proportions and communicate any scale up or scale down of batch sizes for verification.
• Follow through to make sure that the methodologies and production processes are strictly observed during the production of all the products.
• Schedule the production plans to make sure that the targets are achieved.
• Guide the sales team to ensure that there is proper handling of the products after baking to avoid damages.
• Maintain products quality by focusing on the key critical control points to make sure that the final products meets the required standards.
• Use product presentation guidelines to ensure that the products are well and neatly arranged in the glass displays and shelves.
• Plan the shifts in a way that will ensure continuity in production and service.
• Report all the indiscipline cases to management.
• Communicate and review the sales targets with the team on a weekly basis.
• Guide the teams in proper machine handling during usage.
• Schedule daily and weekly clean-up of equipment.
• Report breakdowns promptly and ensure that repairs are conducted satisfactorily.
• Keep a schedule and coordinate all equipment service.
• Inventory Management Recommend changes in product Menu based on market changes, customer demands and sales/margin reports.
• Raise inventory requisitions to direct suppliers and DC.
• Ensure that inventory received from DC and directed supplier is posted same day.
• Manage and control outlet inventory levels through the Hospitality module.
• Prepare stock management reports (direct supplies, stock-takes and accountability of any variances thereof, stock-damages/returns).
• Generate opening and closing stock records from system and verify with physical stock daily.
• Ensure correct stock rotation procedure, minimize wastage and correct recording of wastage.
• Ensure production plan are followed, record /posted. Raise IDT requests in the system and generate IDT reports for review and sign off by double checkers and Branch Manager.

Person Specifications

• Bachelor of Food production or any other related field.
• Diploma in Food & Beverage.
• Minimum KCSE – C Plus
• At least one year working at the Deli or Bakery.

Skills

• Good communication
• Multi-tasking skills
• Well organized, excellent planning and organization skills
• Team player
• Computer literacy.