Assistant Bakery Manager

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Northwood New World in Christchurch is looking for an Assistant Bakery Manager who can lead with hands on practicality in a fast paced supermarket, ensuring KPI targets while nurturing a friendly customer focus. You should bring baking experience and, ideally, SAP or a similar ordering system. The role blends leadership and hands on workload, including staff training, display planning, and developing in store promotions, with an eye to future department growth. Expects Sunday to Thursday work, onsite in Christchurch, with a supportive team culture. To apply online, tailor your resume to showcase bakery leadership, KPI delivery, staff development, and concrete examples of improving customer service.

About Northwood New World

At Northwood, our mission is to be the best supermarket in New Zealand, offering customers a level of service and performance that is unrivalled. We are committed to providing our customers with a comprehensive range of quality products and services at a competitive price in a friendly and clean environment. 

About You

You might currently be working in the baking industry as an experienced baker and have been waiting to take the next step. Over your career, you’ve built solid knowledge and skills in the Baking industry, experience with SAP or a similar ordering system would be an advantage.

You’ll be both a team leader and team player who can own the role and really take responsibility, holding yourself and others accountable. You’ll be organised and efficient, while maintaining a degree of flexibility and adaptability so you can handle the fast paced, ever-changing supermarket environment (as well as all the new ideas we will throw at you). Last but not least, you’ll have a positive, can-do attitude.

What You’ll Do

In a nutshell, your role will be to effectively assist in managing the bakery department, exhibiting leadership, and ensuring critical systems and procedures are adhered to. You’ll ensure KPIs across the department are achieved, while also developing a strong caring culture for our customers and our people. You will get stuck in, working alongside the Bakery Manager and team.

Specific tasks will include but are not limited to staff training; display planning; building an effective instore promotional program; management of critical department tasks; and planning for the future development of the department.

Instore, we offer great working conditions, a warm and friendly environment and an opportunity to learn and grow. Days of work will be Sunday to Thursday.

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been waiting for and believe you have all the skills and attributes listed above, please apply online now following the link below.