Assistant Manager (Days)

Job Title: Kitchen Assistant Manager

Location: Cheltenham (5 days a week across 7 days, 6.30am to 5pm)

Reporting to: Kitchen Manager

Contract Type: Full Time

Job Purpose

Tosupport the Kitchen Manager in overseeing all dailykitchenoperations, ensuringconsistentlyhigh standardsof food quality, hygiene, and staff management arecontinuouslymaintained.

At SOHO Coffee, our central production kitchen in Cheltenham is where wemake daily a selection of products such as Toasties, Sandwiches,Saladsand Muffins, to send out to our stores. This role is apivotalsupport role to the Kitchen Manager, in delivering consistently great standards every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in managing daily kitchen duties, including product and ingredient preparation, cooking and baking, to ensure smooth workflow and timely delivery of finished product.
• Ensure all product is prepared according to standardized recipes and quality standards, monitoring portion control, temperature, and presentation.
• Constantly striving for excellence, ensuring the kitchen team supports the store teams with consistently great quality product every single day.
• Assist the Kitchen Manager by supervising, training, mentoring, and motivating kitchen staff and new hires, manage staff schedules and rotas, and assist with performance evaluations and disciplinary meetings.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Experience working with in high-volume food production or kitchen.
• Experience supervisory/management within a food business.
• Food Level Qualification - Level 2 or equivalent.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong communication skills.
• Strong coaching skills, with the ability to motivate and mentor a team.
• Passionate about delivering consistently great quality food every single day.
• Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
• Proactive and solutions-focused mindset.
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to the needs of the shift.

Compensation: To be discussed.