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Are you an Assistant General Manager ready to step up?

We're looking for an Assistant General Manager who cares as much about the people and the service as we do about what comes out of our ovens.

We opened our first UK bakery in 2025 and are now setting the standards for our future expansion. This is an opportunity to help run our London flagship alongside the General Manager, build a team you're proud of and grow into a bakery of your own as we expand.

You'll be present on the floor, close to your team and comfortable with the numbers and have experience of helping the General Manager. From a busy morning service to the weekly stock count, you'll bring the same care and attention to every part of the business. If you're an ambitious operator who leads by example and wants a clear route to General Manager, this is the role for you.

What we believe

• Craft & Quality. Time, learning and great passion are at the heart of any craft and of achieving quality.
• Organic, always. We use only organically certified ingredients, as proof of our commitment to animal welfare, unmodified crops and sustainable agriculture.
• Do it right or not at all. The quality goes in before the name goes on.

You will:

• Support the General Manager in the day-to-day running of the bakery and take full charge of the site in their absence, keeping the counter, coffee bar, kitchen and bakery teams working to clear standards and a shared plan.
• Lead from the floor –help running shifts, deliver warm, energetic hospitality, get to know our regulars and support the team through busy service periods.
• Help recruit, train and develop a dependable team, giving clear expectations and regular feedback and spotting people ready to take on more responsibility.
• Write and manage rotas with the General Manager, balancing service quality, team wellbeing and labour costs, and adjusting cover day to day as the business needs.
• Understand the site's financial performance – know the sales, labour, food cost and waste numbers for your shifts and act on them.
• Contribute to weekly performance reviews, explain what is working on the floor and help turn areas for improvement into practical actions.
• Work closely with the bakery and kitchen leads to plan production, maintain availability and keep product quality consistent throughout the day.
• Own ordering, stock counts and cash handling routines, keeping them accurate and protecting against avoidable losses.
• Maintain high standards of food safety, allergen awareness, cleanliness and workplace safety, keeping records and training up to date.
• Listen to guest feedback, resolve concerns with care and use what you learn to improve the experience.
• Grow sales through thoughtful product recommendations, seasonal launches and strong relationships with our local community.
• Keep the premises and equipment well maintained, raise repairs promptly and run reliable opening, closing and handover routines.

You are:

• Warm, thoughtful and dependable – someone who sets the tone and earns the trust of the team.
• An experienced Assistant General Manager, Deputy Manager or senior supervisor, with a strong track record in a busy bakery, café, restaurant or similar food business.
• Comfortable with the numbers – able to read a shift's sales, labour and waste figures and understand what moves them.
• A practical leader who is just as comfortable supporting service as planning the week ahead.
• Passionate about great food, coffee and hospitality, with the curiosity to learn about our breads, ingredients and approach to baking.
• Organised and calm under pressure, able to set priorities and follow through without losing sight of the guest experience.
• A clear communicator who can coach people, handle difficult conversations fairly and build a respectful, inclusive team.
• Ambitious – you want to become a General Manager and are ready to learn what that takes.
• Comfortable working across a seven-day operation, including early starts, weekends and the shifts your team and business need.
• Cooperative with lets-make-it-happen attitude

You'll need the right to work in the UK and fluent English. German is a bonus. Whatever your background, we'd love to hear from you.

We are a German company and believe strongly in training and supporting our team from whom we after all expect a lot:

• Competitive salary, depending on experience
• Quarterly bonus based on mutually agreed KPIs – up to 20% of base salary
• Disability insurance – 3 years at 75% of salary over and above statutory sick pay
• Private health insurance after 6 months of employment
• Discounted health club membership
• Discounted food and drink
• Salary sacrifice scheme for purchase of bicycles
• Discounts on a large range of retailers and technology items

About Zeit für Brot

Zeit für Brot are a German, fully organic-certified artisan bakery – we operate genuine full-cycle bakeries in multiple locations in Germany and the UK. We don't just do shops – we bake where we operate.

We started in Frankfurt in 2009 with a mission to revive traditional bread culture and to modernise it. Quality and sustainability drive us every day. We bake fresh on site in all our bakeries, using the best organic ingredients and a strong team spirit.

Product quality is everything to us: German heritage, a deep passion for baking and 100% organic ingredients with no additives. We do not aim to be the largest. We aim to do what we do best. Every morning we start with nine types of bread dough and do things the German way: we get the quality right, every day.

We opened our first UK bakery in 2025 at Angel, Islington: an open-view bakery where guests watch us bake on site – we bake 24/7 – alongside a kitchen preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner from our own breads. We are bringing to London the quality and baking approach developed across our bakeries in Germany.

Instagram: @zeitfuerbrot.uk

Website: zeitfuerbrot.co.uk

How to apply

Apply through Indeed with your CV and answer the application questions. We reply to every application.

Applications close Friday 30th October 2026

Pay: £35,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Store discount

Application question(s):

• Describe a change you made on shift or in your section that improved sales, labour costs or food waste. What did you do, and what was the result?
• What attracts you to work for a bakery like us?
• What was the team size and revenue of the last two businesses where you were a manager or assistant manager? What share of the sales were take away and delivery respectively?
• Describe one major problem you solved for the General Manager in your previous job. What was the problem, what did you do, and what was the result?
• What is your notice period, and when are you thinking of changing your current job?
• How would you approach your first 30 days as Assistant General Manager of our bakery? What area can you help the GM most?

Experience:

• Counter sales or quick service sales : 5 years (required)
• Hospitality supervisory or assistant management: 5 years (required)

Language:

• english fluently (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person