Bakery Manager at Outsource Africa

Outsource Africa - Our client, a leading and growing departmental store in Lagos is expanding her store operations to Benin and seeks to employ the services of:

Job Title: Bakery Manager

Location: Benin, Edo

Job Responsibilities

• Work with the Food technologist to ensure that raw materials, recipes and ingredients of good quality are gotten.
• Carry out and monitors tasks on bread and baked goods production
• Efficiently carry out stock, inventory and product calculations
• Follow and enforce HACCP, safety, hygiene and maintenance guidelines in the bakery
• Monitor and execute sales promotion tasks
• Ensure effective teamwork and leadership of the bakery team

Education and Experience Requirements

• Food management, food science or any food related course
• Good experience working in the food production or food retail industry, especially in the bakery department.

Skills Requirements:

• Knowledge of how to prepare baked goods (bread, cakes, pastries, cookies, etc.)
• Able to prepare baked goods in large quantities
• Knowledge of relevant food safety legislations and HACCP rules
• Good understanding of the meaning of food quality and freshness
• Have high standards of cleanliness and the ability to adhere to strict hygiene rules
• Excellent attention to detail
• Adept at finding best practices for production
• Strong interpersonal and commercial skills
• Understands (local) customer tastes, behaviours and the effect on sales
• Energy, drive and a strong can-do attitude (getting-it-done mentality)
• A desire for continuous food improvement and professional development.

Application Closing Date
22nd February, 2020.