Assistant Cafe Manager

We are delighted to have been asked to recruit for this position, for an established and successful company that continues to trade well, is ambitious, and has a "people first" culture. They are continuing to open new high street stores in the current climate.

Benefits:

• Daytime shifts only - great work/life balance
• Generous quarterly paid bonus
• Progression opportunities
• Discounted food & drink
• Birthday off!

Do you have passion for high quality food and drink ? because this is who we need. Someone with a quality food led background with exceptional customer service skills, a real eye for detail, and the ability to supervise and train great people and build sales.

They are coffee aficionados with trained baristas, and company trainers and serve an all day fresh range of bakery items alongside patisserie, pastries, breakfast pots and cakes etc.

You will either be an experienced assistant manager or a strong supervisor and your background will be working in busy coffee shops, restaurants, cafes, customer facing catering operations or cafe bakeries - in a hands-on capacity.

A massive bonus is that it is a day time only operation, so you will have a great work life balance.

Role - Assistant Cafe bakery Manager

As the Assistant Cafe Bakery Manager you will:

• Help to manage all day to day operations
• Deputise for the manager in their absence
• Supervise, train and develop your team
• Work in a hands-on capacity leading from the front
• Maintain high standards, compliance and company systems & procedures
• Manage stock and control wastage
• Deliver exceptional customer service
• Work to company targets and KPIs'

Attributes - Assistant Cafe Bakery Manager

• Experience as assistant restaurant/cafe/coffee shop/cafe bakery,catering manager or a supervisor in busy fast paced commercial customer facing operations
• Some financial knowledge
• Excellent people, communication and supervisory skills
• A hands-on lead from the front approach and a very keen eye for detail
• An understanding of legislation & compliance
• The ability to motivate and enthuse people and teams to deliver results
• A positive and outgoing personality and outlook
• IT literate - working with systems & process

This is an amazing opportunity in the current climate to join a company that has ambitious expansion plans.

Apply today

Please note: You must be resident in the UK and eligible to work. We will respond to your application as soon as possible, and please bear with us because we are experiencing very high numbers of applications at the moment.

Penny Cook Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer, a recruitment agency dedicated to recruitment in the Hospitality Industry.