About us

The Bread and Butter Project is Australia’s first social enterprise bakery. We bake premium artisan bread and pastry, whilst providing paid baking training to people from refugee or asylum seeker backgrounds.

Although we operate a wholesale business, as a social enterprise 100% of our profits are reinvested into training, social and career assistance for refugees and asylum seekers. It's a simple but powerful formula - the more bread and pastry we sell, the more refugees we can assist.

We are passionate about good food and making a difference to people's lives in the most practical way – through building skills for meaningful, sustainable employment.

We’re now looking for an experienced and dynamic Bakery Operations Manager to join our passionate management team and drive the company’s strategic, operational and social purpose goals within our Marrickville Bakery

About the Role

Reporting into the CEO, the Operations Manager will oversee all operations within TBBP’s busy Marrickville bakery; driving growth and organisational change.

Responsibilities will include -

• Leadership and development of operations team within Marrickville Bakery
• Execution and coordination of TBBP Refugee training program
• P&L accountability and cost control
• Production planning, inventory management and resource allocation
• Procurement and supplier negotiations (equipment + materials)
• New and existing product development
• Quality Assurance and Work, Health & Safety program management
• Identification and execution of continuous improvement initiatives

About You

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in running a mid-sized bakery
• Technical skills and experience in baking
• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Sound business and financial acumen
• Resourceful and dynamic problem solver
• Highly organised with exceptional time management
• Computer literate with Microsoft applications
• Tertiary qualifications in business desired but not essential

What’s on offer

• Competitive salary with salary packaging tax benefits
• Role autonomy in a great team environment
• The opportunity to work for a rapidly growing social enterprise, giving back to some of Australia's most vulnerable