Hourly Baker Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Benefits:

• Free uniforms
• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off
• Bonus based on performance
• Company parties
• Employee discounts

Position Summary
The Hourly Bakery Manager owns the bakery's daily execution. This role leads the team, protects the guest experience, manages labor and operational controls, and ensures product quality, food safety, training, and brand standards are carried out consistently. The manager translates sales forecasts and leadership priorities into clear daily plans, resolves routine issues within established authority, and escalates higher-risk matters quickly.
Essential Responsibilities
Team Leadership and Staffing
• Identify staffing needs, screen candidates, conduct first interviews, and recommend hourly hires.
• Lead daily coaching, feedback, corrective action, and documentation; recommend terminations, raises, promotions, trainers, and shift leads.
• Execute the onboarding and training plan, verify required sign-offs, coach retraining, and develop shift leads, trainers, and assistant managers.
• Create weekly schedules, manage availability, PTO, call-outs, breaks, and shift coverage while protecting labor goals and required leadership coverage.
• Lead daily huddles and clear shift-to-shift communication; read, act on, and close out store-level communications.
Sales, Financial, and Administrative Execution
• Drive daily sales behaviors, upselling, guest engagement, and team focus against store goals.
• Manage daily controllables, including labor, waste, retail execution, cash discipline, and accurate timekeeping.
• Verify punches, correct missed punches, meet payroll deadlines, and escalate unusual overtime or compliance concerns.
• Complete and validate daily cash procedures and deposits, investigate routine variances, and maintain drawer accountability.
• Apply forecasts to staffing, ordering, prep, and production; complete store action items from weekly scorecard and P&L reviews.
Inventory, Production, and Bakery Standards
• Create and update pars; complete inventory counts; investigate basic variances; and place routine orders on time using forecast and approved guidelines.
• Build and execute the daily production plan using sales forecasts, orders, events, and pars; track waste and prevent overproduction or stockouts.
• Handle routine vendor and delivery issues, approved substitutions, and product rotation; escalate recurring shortages, pricing concerns, or service failures.
• Maintain retail pricing, displays, rotation, and inventory within approved standards.
• Own daily product quality, decorating standards, cleanliness, sanitation, temperature logs, food safety practices, and scored-visit readiness.
Guest Experience, Marketing Support, and Facilities
• Resolve routine guest concerns promptly and professionally within approved recovery limits; document complaints and recurring issues.
• Execute in-bakery marketing, signage, promotions, approved donations, and simple events in partnership with the Local Bakery Marketing Lead.
• Prepare staffing, product, setup, and guest flow for events, large orders, holidays, and peak seasons.
• Maintain the store maintenance log, report equipment or facility issues, follow up on repairs, and handle minor items within authority.
Decision Rights and Approvals
• Interview and recommend hourly hires; document performance issues and recommend termination or advancement decisions.
• Own the weekly schedule and shift coverage; use overtime only for emergencies and report it promptly unless planned overtime has been approved.
• Approve routine guest recovery only within the manager limit and use approved promotions, pricing, donations, and vendor substitutions.
• Execute simple, approved events and routine store-level purchases or maintenance items within policy.
• Escalate leadership hiring, compensation exceptions, sensitive terminations, major repairs, vendor changes, structural staffing changes, and high-risk guest or brand matters.
Approval limits: Refunds, discounts/comps, donations, marketing spend, maintenance spend, and event commitments must remain within written company limits and approved budgets. Escalate exceptions before committing funds or representing the bakery.
Performance Measures
Accountability | Primary measuresSales and labor | Sales vs. target; daily labor execution; weekly labor percent; overtime and coverage exceptions
People | Open positions; onboarding completion; first-30-day retention; training certification; bench strength
Product and cost | Forecast accuracy; stockouts; inventory variance; COGS/food cost; waste; emergency orders
Guest and brand | Complaint resolution time; repeat issues; product quality; scored-visit results; guest feedback
Controls and compliance | Punch accuracy; payroll timeliness; cash over/short; deposit completion; food safety logs; policy compliance
Operating Rhythm
• Daily: Review cash close, punches, production plan, labor, food safety logs, guest recovery, product quality, and shift communication.
• Weekly: Review sales trends, labor percent, training, schedule quality, pars, inventory, waste, and scorecard action items with the Multi-Unit Leader.
• Monthly/seasonal: Contribute to P&L action plans, talent reviews, compliance checks, maintenance trends, and holiday/peak readiness.
Qualifications and Capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to lead hourly teams, coach performance, and follow through on standards in a fast-paced guest-service environment.
• Working knowledge of scheduling, labor management, cash handling, inventory, production planning, food safety, and basic business KPIs.
• Sound judgment in guest recovery, employee documentation, prioritization, and timely escalation.
• Clear written and verbal communication; reliable organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to learn and consistently apply Nothing Bundt Cakes brand standards, franchise policies, and bakery procedures.
• Required certifications, age, education, and experience will be set by franchise policy and applicable local requirements.
Work Requirements
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on bakery needs, including opening, closing, weekend, holiday, and peak-season coverage as assigned.
• Ability to perform the essential functions of bakery operations with or without reasonable accommodation; location-specific physical requirements should be added before posting.
• Regular on-site presence and availability to respond to staffing, guest, product-quality, food-safety, and equipment issues.
Escalation Expectations
Immediately elevate food-safety or illness claims, legal threats, media or social escalation, harassment or discrimination allegations, safety incidents, missing deposits, suspected theft, major equipment failures, failed scored visits, payroll compliance concerns, severe staffing gaps, or any matter outside written approval authority.
Role Scope
This job description summarizes the primary responsibilities of the role and is not intended to list every duty. Responsibilities may be adjusted based on bakery needs, company policy, franchise requirements, and applicable law.
Compensation: $18.00 - $22.00 per hour
Join Our Growing Family
From "Happy Birthday" to "Just Because," Nothing Bundt Cakes® is committed to bringing joy to our guests and our communities and helping make every celebration sweeter! Each bakery offers a warm and welcoming work environment with team members who embody this joy-filled brand and possess a Servant's Heart, the Spirit of a Champion and the ability to make Genuine Connections.
With over 500 bakery locations in 40+ U.S states and in Canada, there's plenty of opportunity to join our family!
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Employees at a franchised Nothing Bundt Cakes bakery location are employed by the franchise owner/operator and are not employees of Nothing Bundt Cakes Corporate (the franchisor). All inquiries about employment should be directed to the franchise owner/operator and not to Nothing Bundt Cakes Corporate. Each franchise owner/operator is responsible for ensuring compliance with local, state and federal law.