Pastry Chef:
Holiday Market, an award winning, family-owned gourmet grocery store and bakery, is looking for an inspiring Pastry Chef. The ideal candidate will inspire the bakery team and inspire our customers with custom bakery and pastry creations.
Holiday Market:
Holiday Market-Royal Oak, MI, has consistently been awarded the best independent gourmet market by publications such as HOUR Detroit. In addition, being named the best place to buy your wedding cake and specialty cakes. Our guiding principle is that good companies are customer focused and great companies are employee focused.
Key accountabilities:
-Love what you do and inspire the team to do the same
-Develop a new pastry menu, enhance current recipes, standardize operations
-Train, motivate & mentor team
-Develop/select creative, cost-effective packaging
-Build sales and control costs
-Create systems for order taking counter sales and production schedule
-Focus on baking and pastries as our cake team is strong
-Efficiently manage your time to be hands on and in the bakery but also to complete any administrative work needed to be done
General requirements:
-Have 5 years of pastry chef management
-Be strong in creating and baking pastries, pies, muffins, quick breads, cheesecakes, etc.
-Have retail bakery experience
-Have the physical capabilities for this position (standing & lifting)
Benefits:
-Performance Bonus
-Autonomy
-Solid bakery team to begin with especially Wedding and specialty cakes
-Medical
-401K
-5 days a week on non-peak time retail hours
-Over 15,000 customers passing by baked goods each week
Job Type: Full-time
Work schedule
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Benefits
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Referral program
- Employee discount