Assistant Bakery Manager

Job Description

Assistant Bakery Manager | Nothing Bundt Cakes

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Nothing Bundt Cakes, located in Nashville, TN. Nothing Bundt Cakes builds high-quality, handcrafted bundt cakes, aiming to create a warm and welcoming experience for every guest. The Assistant Bakery Manager is a crucial leadership position, working closely with the Bakery Manager to uphold brand standards, drive sales, and cultivate a positive environment for both team members and guests. This role is essential for reinforcing the company’s core values and bringing its unique brand to life within the local community.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Nashville, TN
• Pay: $19.25–$28.80 hourly
• Team: Works alongside the Bakery Manager and bakery team members, reporting to the Bakery Manager.
• Mission: Shares responsibility for leading bakery operations, ensuring the creation of high-quality cakes, a superior guest experience, and fostering a positive work environment in full compliance with company standards.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook

What You’ll Actually Do
• Guest Experience: Prioritize and model a superior guest experience, fostering a positive work environment and consistently upholding brand and merchandise presentation standards.
• Team Leadership: Partner with the Bakery Manager to support the team by recruiting, selecting, training new members, directing daily responsibilities, and providing performance feedback and coaching.
• Operational Oversight: Co-manage critical bakery operations including cake production plans, setting productivity goals, team scheduling, supply ordering, and overseeing sales and labor reporting.
• Financial & Administrative Management: Assist in executing essential administrative responsibilities, which include basic accounting, expense control procedures, payroll processing, cash-drawer balancing, and bank deposits.
• Sales & Community Engagement: Co-manage special-order fulfillment for both individual and corporate accounts, while actively contributing to marketing strategy execution by participating in local brand-building events.
• Hands-On Support: Maintain comprehensive knowledge of all bakery roles and step in regularly to perform various responsibilities as business demands require, ensuring smooth operation.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Requires a high school diploma or GED, with post-secondary education being an advantage. Candidates should possess guest-facing experience within retail, restaurant, or foodservice environments, ideally in a leadership capacity with increasing managerial duties.
• Experience: Demonstrates a proven track record of 1-3 years in roles where creating a superior guest experience was paramount, along with coaching others, training new team members, directing work, and consistently achieving productivity goals.
• Skills: Exhibit an unwavering guest focus, strong interpersonal abilities to engage and motivate a team, and effective communication skills in both oral and written forms. The role demands strong organizational capabilities, resourcefulness, the ability to balance multiple priorities, and robust problem-solving skills to assess situations and develop solutions.
• Bonus: A strong comfort with learning new technologies is preferred, in addition to basic proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.