✨ We’re Hiring a General Manager! ✨
Alessi Bakeries Food Market is more than a place to eat—it’s where family, artisan bakery, gourmet food counters, bar, and café all come together to create memorable experiences for our community.
We’re looking for a passionate and results-driven General Manager to lead our team across 6 unique F&B outlets under one roof. This is an incredible opportunity to shape the daily presentation of our 112-year legacy, drive innovation, and deliver unforgettable experiences to our guests and staff alike.
If you’re a strong leader with hospitality or retail operations experience and you’re ready to bring your passion, creativity, and discipline to a Tampa icon, we’d love to hear from you!
Application Process
Please submit your Resume and importantly a cover letter outlining in detail why you believe you are the right person for us to put the trust of our beloved 112 years of operations in your hands.
About Alessi Bakeries Food Market.
Alessi Bakeries Food Market, is a dream that has become a reality. It is a place where family meets artisan Bakery, meets multiple Gourmet Food counters, meets Bar, meets Café and that screams quality, goodness and vitality.
Why Choose Alessi Bakeries Food Market
Alessi Bakeries Food Market is a wonderful place to visit and even a better place to work. A place where you can play your part in creating memorable experiences for our guest and team. We value passion, creativity, professionalism, discipline and dedication.
What you will do
As General Manager, you will lead and motivate a diverse team across 6 independent F&B outlets under one roof. You will be responsible for the Daily presentation of the Food Market in a manner that delivers outstanding returns while optimizing the guest experience. You will ensure the highest standards are consistently maintained and deliver exceptional, memorable and rewarding experiences to customers, staff and our community.
Key Responsibilities
· Manage an efficient and effective operation, identifying areas of strategic growth and business development opportunities.
· Work very closely with section leaders to develop products and strategies to continually improve their financial performance.
· Drive innovation by staying ahead of market trends and introducing new experiences.
· Monitor the department’s actual and projected sales to ensure revenue goals are met or exceeded, and opportunities are identified and addressed.
· Engage, mentor, and inspire your combined total team to deliver exceptional products, service and amazing guest experiences.
· Provide services above and beyond, guest satisfaction and ensuring return patronage.
· Drive the successful execution of initiatives to achieve profitability and growth in line with the strategic plan for the business
· Focus relentlessly on customer service, including the delivery of key opportunities to build the customer base.
· Understand the food market lifecycle, and ensure all activities on site, and the team's performance, contribute to meeting the objectives of the business plan.
· Build collaborative relationships with key local community groups and authorities, and customers/guests, and attend meetings as required.
· Ensure the team represents our reputation, products and the facility to the public in its optimal condition
· Ensure the food market meets all obligations stipulated under each license agreement, and all statutory requirements.
· Overall responsibility for ensuring 100% accuracy of all information including but not limited to sales, costs, salaries, marketing and compliance of license agreement.
· Overall responsibility for the business’s Income and Expenditure, Capital Expenditure and Marketing budgets.
· Continuously monitor, reforecast and manage all budgets.
· Ensure the Marketing Manager implements dynamic curation and marketing initiatives that deliver increased sales and foot traffic.
· Ensure the venue is in line with legislative requirements, and to the highest standard of repair, maintenance, presentation and cleanliness.
· Adhere to Alessi policies and procedures and internal reporting deadlines, and provide accurate and high-quality reports, and quick responses to requests for information about the business.
· Proactively engage with industry bodies and be up to date with emerging hospitality industry concepts and trends.
· Assist with any projects, or undertake additional duties as reasonably required.
What we expect from you
· You are a leader that radiates positive energy and is a person who can lift others through the good and challenging times.
· You are a passionate foodie and a results driven professional with a strong technical and financial understanding of retail, venue management and F&B operations.
· You understand Quality, pricing, presentation with a constant focus on customer satisfaction with a warm and welcoming disposition.
· You are a results driven leader who knows how to achieve from an ownership perspective
· You inspire and motivate a team, through effective coaching, mentoring, talent acquisition and management.
· Highly organized and efficiently, you thrive in fast-paced environments, using your analytical skills to assess business trends and drive proactive strategies.
· You navigate change effectively, resolve conflicts with integrity and make innovative results driven decisions
· You have extensive leadership experience in Hospitality or Retail Operations
· You have a proven track record of success in leading large-scale F&B or Retail Operations
· You possess the ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders
What you can expect
· If you are looking for an incredibly rewarding high end position that comes with great prestige where you will be mixing with the elite in Tampa and beyond, then look no further.
· You will be in a position to direct and drive a unique F&B operation that will come with many accolades and enormous media coverage. Join a renowned family institute in Tampa that is much loved for generations and known statewide.
· If you are the right person, we will compensate you well. So convince us and let’s talk.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Ability to Commute:
- Tampa, FL 33609 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Tampa, FL 33609: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
