Information Technology And Management Jobs in Independence, MO

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Job Title: Sr. Backend Developer

Location: Kansas City, MO (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 month Contract to Hire

Job Description

• Provides technical expertise to design, develop and maintain software applications and products that support business applications.

• In addition, provides lead role for day-to-day functional tasks in the team, developer support and maintaining the development environment.

• Uses tools, languages, coding standards and best practices to develop new product features and maintain year over year product functionality and enhancements.

• Works closely with the QA, UX and other related teams to ensure consistent understanding of requirements and approach.

• In addition, assists in planning and implementation of a strategic direction for the product.

• Designs, develops and maintains complex software components

• Creates and maintains documentation of design approaches

• Creates and maintains documentation on internal architecture of the system. Leads architectural changes in the system.

• Identifies product design features to support scalability, usability and better performance.

• Assists and drives technical design and code reviews for all new enhancements and maintenance work delivered by the development team.

• Understands complex business and functional requirements and produces technical specifications and product requirements.

• Establishes best practices in coding and development within the team. Ensures consistency of the use of best practices within the team.

• Designs and develops reusable code components. Positively and proactively leads and influences the team.

• Provides advice and guidance to associate, senior and software engineer roles in the effective use of coding principles and best practices. Develops reusable code components.

• Creates, maintains and executes unit test and alpha test plans

• Maintains development environment and creates build.

• Maintains and improves current knowledge on the latest technologies relevant to the role regarding algorithms, language, design methodology, third-party development tools, application platforms, hardware compatibility and operating systems.

• Mentors and coaches other team members on the latest technological advances within the current technology used. Leads by example.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and related work experience.

Technical Stack

Angular 13+

NET 5+

Azure Services

Azure App Service

Azure Storage

Azure Logi Apps

Azure Containers

Azure Functions

Position: Systems Administrator

Compensation: $40 - $45 /hour, depending on experience

Location: Kansas City, Missouri

Inceed has partnered with a great company to help find a skilled Systems Administrator to join their team!

Are you ready to elevate your career in IT? Join a dynamic team where your expertise in systems administration will be the key to maintaining top-notch infrastructure operations. This opportunity is perfect for those who thrive in a fast-paced environment and are eager to tackle challenging IT issues. Step into a role that offers growth and the chance to make a significant impact.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Serve as Tier 3 escalation point for Helpdesk issues
• Troubleshoot server performance and system alerts
• Review event logs and resolve infrastructure incidents
• Restore files and resolve storage conflicts
• Build and upgrade VMs and VDIs
• Manage disk expansions and Windows patching
• Monitor Patch My PC and maintain SolarWinds
• Assist with application deployments and Intune integrations
• Manage Microsoft 365 & Exchange tasks
• Conduct Google Workspace & GCP audits

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience in server performance troubleshooting
• Proficiency in building and upgrading VMs
• Knowledge of Microsoft 365 & Exchange administration
• Familiarity with Google Workspace & GCP management
• Strong problem-solving skills

Nice to Have Skills & Experience:

• Experience with Intune integrations
• Knowledge of SolarWinds monitoring
• Background in managing shared drives and external audits

Perks & Benefits:

• 3 different medical health insurance plans, dental, and vision insurance
• Voluntary and Long-term disability insurance
• Paid time off, 401k, and holiday pay
• Weekly direct deposit or pay card deposit

If you are interested in learning more about the Systems Administrator opportunity, please submit your resume for consideration. Our client is unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

We are Inceed, a staffing direct placement firm who believes in the possibility of something better. Our mission is simple: We're here to help every person, whether client, candidate, or employee, find and secure what's better for them.

Inceed is an equal opportunity employer. Inceed prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Kansas City (Onsite)

Requirements and skills

• Certification as a Scrum Master (e.g., Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM)) is required.

• Familiarity with other Agile frameworks and methodologies, such as Kanban, Lean, or XP, is beneficial.

• Experience with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and certification is a Plus.

• Experience in a scrum master role

• Familiarity with software development

• Solid understanding of Agile principles and Scrum framework.

• Proven experience working as a Scrum Master in Agile software development environments.

• Strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence team members and stakeholders.

• Ability to coach and mentor individuals and teams, fostering self-organization and continuous improvement.

• Knowledge of Agile metrics, tools, and techniques for tracking and reporting project progress.

• Experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., MS DevOps, Jira, Trello) and proficiency in using them for backlog management and sprint tracking.

• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)

• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Crystal, XP etc.)

• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills

• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability

• Outstanding organizational skills

The Program Director oversees assigned Beacon locations to ensure that company goals, budgets, and clinical effectiveness targets are met. They support Care Team Managers by ensuring adequate staffing and resources for high-quality care, and keep department heads informed of staffing, compliance, and operational concerns. The Program Director plans and co-chairs monthly staff meetings, ensuring that agendas are coordinated, and documentation is filed.

They also ensure the consistent application of policies and procedures, monitor Care Team Managers' workload, and review incident reports for timely submission to regulatory agencies. The Program Director communicates with regulatory agencies, assists the compliance department with corrective action plans, and manages Census, payroll costs, and EBITDA targets.

Additionally, they ensure accurate time-and-attendance reporting, manage staffing needs, and oversee new employee orientation and training compliance. The Program Director addresses personnel issues with HR, Compliance, and Executive Leadership, provides feedback on performance reviews, and manages the DSP leveling program.

The Program Director ensures individual protection, personal care, and participation in skill-building activities, maintains accurate records, and performs ongoing audits of Beacon location(s) operations.

Integrity

• 
  
• Always be compliant with all company and regulatory policies and procedures.
  
• Operational Oversight: Ensure that company goals, including budget and clinical effectiveness targets, are met.
  
• Policy Implementation: Consistently apply and deploy BSLS policies, procedures, and care practices.
  
• Incident Reports: Review incident reports, submit them for approval, and ensure timely submission to regulatory agencies.
  
• Work Injury Reports: Ensure work injury reports are entered accurately and in a timely manner if needed.
  
• Record Maintenance: Ensure records are secure, confidential, up-to-date, and accurate for individuals and employees.
  
• Reporting Requirements: Ensure that reporting requirements are met and monitor various plans and quality.
  
• Ongoing Audits: Perform ongoing audits of location operations, including routine inspections.
  

• 
  
• Must fully cooperate with all licensing reviews and internal or external investigations
  

• 
  
• Supervision: Support and supervise Care Team Managers to ensure adequate staffing and resources for high-quality care.
  
• Personal Care Logs/Daily Documentation: Ensure that logs are completed correctly and in a timely manner.
  
• EMAR/MAR: Ensure accuracy in medication administration records.
  
• Individual Protection: Ensure individual protection, personal care, and adherence to clinical actions.
  
• Skill-Building Activities: Ensure individuals participate in skill-building and community activities.
  
• Individual Interaction: Attend individual functions and maintain regular interaction.
  
• Individual Assessments: Assist with individual assessments, placement, transfers, and discharges.
  

• 
  
• Communication: Keep department heads informed of staffing, compliance, and operational concerns; collaborate with leadership.
  
• Licensing Liaison: Communicate with licensing consultants and external agencies to resolve issues.
  
• Investigation Response: Lead responses to investigations and facilitate access to requested information.
  
• Compliance Assistance: Assist the compliance department with responses, correspondence, and corrective action plans (CAPs).
  
• Personnel Issues: Address personnel issues with HR, Compliance, and Executive Leadership.
  
• Advocacy for Staff: Assist staff with navigating the process for training and tuition reimbursement.
  

• 
  
• Meetings: Plan, attend, and co-chair monthly staff meetings, coordinating agendas and ensuring documentation is filed.
  
• New Employee Orientation: Ensure new employee orientation is completed and monitored.
  
• Staffing Management: Collaborate with Care Team Managers, Recruiters, and Trainers to achieve full staffing.
  
• Training Compliance: Enforce training compliance and provide monthly reports.
  
• Personnel Issues: Address personnel issues with HR, Compliance, and Executive Leadership.
  
• Respect for Individuals: Ensure proper clinical actions are taken to maintain or improve individual health, safety, and stability.
  

• 
  
• Financial Management: Manage Census, LOA’s, Per Diem Rates, payroll costs, and EBITDA targets.
  
• Budget Monitoring: Support Care Team Managers with financial plans/budgets and ensure understanding of budgetary reporting.
  
• Time-and-Attendance: Ensure accurate reporting by monitoring schedules and actual time worked.
  

The Program Director oversees assigned Beacon locations to ensure that company goals, budgets, and clinical effectiveness targets are met. They support Care Team Managers by ensuring adequate staffing and resources for high-quality care, and keep department heads informed of staffing, compliance, and operational concerns. The Program Director plans and co-chairs monthly staff meetings, ensuring that agendas are coordinated, and documentation is filed.

They also ensure the consistent application of policies and procedures, monitor Care Team Managers' workload, and review incident reports for timely submission to regulatory agencies. The Program Director communicates with regulatory agencies, assists the compliance department with corrective action plans, and manages Census, payroll costs, and EBITDA targets.

Additionally, they ensure accurate time-and-attendance reporting, manage staffing needs, and oversee new employee orientation and training compliance. The Program Director addresses personnel issues with HR, Compliance, and Executive Leadership, provides feedback on performance reviews, and manages the DSP leveling program.

The Program Director ensures individual protection, personal care, and participation in skill-building activities, maintains accurate records, and performs ongoing audits of Beacon location(s) operations.

Integrity

• 
  
• Always be compliant with all company and regulatory policies and procedures.
  
• Operational Oversight: Ensure that company goals, including budget and clinical effectiveness targets, are met.
  
• Policy Implementation: Consistently apply and deploy BSLS policies, procedures, and care practices.
  
• Incident Reports: Review incident reports, submit them for approval, and ensure timely submission to regulatory agencies.
  
• Work Injury Reports: Ensure work injury reports are entered accurately and in a timely manner if needed.
  
• Record Maintenance: Ensure records are secure, confidential, up-to-date, and accurate for individuals and employees.
  
• Reporting Requirements: Ensure that reporting requirements are met and monitor various plans and quality.
  
• Ongoing Audits: Perform ongoing audits of location operations, including routine inspections.
  

• 
  
• Must fully cooperate with all licensing reviews and internal or external investigations
  

• 
  
• Supervision: Support and supervise Care Team Managers to ensure adequate staffing and resources for high-quality care.
  
• Personal Care Logs/Daily Documentation: Ensure that logs are completed correctly and in a timely manner.
  
• EMAR/MAR: Ensure accuracy in medication administration records.
  
• Individual Protection: Ensure individual protection, personal care, and adherence to clinical actions.
  
• Skill-Building Activities: Ensure individuals participate in skill-building and community activities.
  
• Individual Interaction: Attend individual functions and maintain regular interaction.
  
• Individual Assessments: Assist with individual assessments, placement, transfers, and discharges.
  

• 
  
• Communication: Keep department heads informed of staffing, compliance, and operational concerns; collaborate with leadership.
  
• Licensing Liaison: Communicate with licensing consultants and external agencies to resolve issues.
  
• Investigation Response: Lead responses to investigations and facilitate access to requested information.
  
• Compliance Assistance: Assist the compliance department with responses, correspondence, and corrective action plans (CAPs).
  
• Personnel Issues: Address personnel issues with HR, Compliance, and Executive Leadership.
  
• Advocacy for Staff: Assist staff with navigating the process for training and tuition reimbursement.
  

• 
  
• Meetings: Plan, attend, and co-chair monthly staff meetings, coordinating agendas and ensuring documentation is filed.
  
• New Employee Orientation: Ensure new employee orientation is completed and monitored.
  
• Staffing Management: Collaborate with Care Team Managers, Recruiters, and Trainers to achieve full staffing.
  
• Training Compliance: Enforce training compliance and provide monthly reports.
  
• Personnel Issues: Address personnel issues with HR, Compliance, and Executive Leadership.
  
• Respect for Individuals: Ensure proper clinical actions are taken to maintain or improve individual health, safety, and stability.
  

• 
  
• Financial Management: Manage Census, LOA’s, Per Diem Rates, payroll costs, and EBITDA targets.
  
• Budget Monitoring: Support Care Team Managers with financial plans/budgets and ensure understanding of budgetary reporting.
  
• Time-and-Attendance: Ensure accurate reporting by monitoring schedules and actual time worked.
  

The Program Director oversees assigned Beacon locations to ensure that company goals, budgets, and clinical effectiveness targets are met. They support Care Team Managers by ensuring adequate staffing and resources for high-quality care, and keep department heads informed of staffing, compliance, and operational concerns. The Program Director plans and co-chairs monthly staff meetings, ensuring that agendas are coordinated, and documentation is filed.

They also ensure the consistent application of policies and procedures, monitor Care Team Managers' workload, and review incident reports for timely submission to regulatory agencies. The Program Director communicates with regulatory agencies, assists the compliance department with corrective action plans, and manages Census, payroll costs, and EBITDA targets.

Additionally, they ensure accurate time-and-attendance reporting, manage staffing needs, and oversee new employee orientation and training compliance. The Program Director addresses personnel issues with HR, Compliance, and Executive Leadership, provides feedback on performance reviews, and manages the DSP leveling program.

The Program Director ensures individual protection, personal care, and participation in skill-building activities, maintains accurate records, and performs ongoing audits of Beacon location(s) operations.

Integrity

• 
  
• Always be compliant with all company and regulatory policies and procedures.
  
• Operational Oversight: Ensure that company goals, including budget and clinical effectiveness targets, are met.
  
• Policy Implementation: Consistently apply and deploy BSLS policies, procedures, and care practices.
  
• Incident Reports: Review incident reports, submit them for approval, and ensure timely submission to regulatory agencies.
  
• Work Injury Reports: Ensure work injury reports are entered accurately and in a timely manner if needed.
  
• Record Maintenance: Ensure records are secure, confidential, up-to-date, and accurate for individuals and employees.
  
• Reporting Requirements: Ensure that reporting requirements are met and monitor various plans and quality.
  
• Ongoing Audits: Perform ongoing audits of location operations, including routine inspections.
  

• 
  
• Must fully cooperate with all licensing reviews and internal or external investigations
  

• 
  
• Supervision: Support and supervise Care Team Managers to ensure adequate staffing and resources for high-quality care.
  
• Personal Care Logs/Daily Documentation: Ensure that logs are completed correctly and in a timely manner.
  
• EMAR/MAR: Ensure accuracy in medication administration records.
  
• Individual Protection: Ensure individual protection, personal care, and adherence to clinical actions.
  
• Skill-Building Activities: Ensure individuals participate in skill-building and community activities.
  
• Individual Interaction: Attend individual functions and maintain regular interaction.
  
• Individual Assessments: Assist with individual assessments, placement, transfers, and discharges.
  

• 
  
• Communication: Keep department heads informed of staffing, compliance, and operational concerns; collaborate with leadership.
  
• Licensing Liaison: Communicate with licensing consultants and external agencies to resolve issues.
  
• Investigation Response: Lead responses to investigations and facilitate access to requested information.
  
• Compliance Assistance: Assist the compliance department with responses, correspondence, and corrective action plans (CAPs).
  
• Personnel Issues: Address personnel issues with HR, Compliance, and Executive Leadership.
  
• Advocacy for Staff: Assist staff with navigating the process for training and tuition reimbursement.
  

• 
  
• Meetings: Plan, attend, and co-chair monthly staff meetings, coordinating agendas and ensuring documentation is filed.
  
• New Employee Orientation: Ensure new employee orientation is completed and monitored.
  
• Staffing Management: Collaborate with Care Team Managers, Recruiters, and Trainers to achieve full staffing.
  
• Training Compliance: Enforce training compliance and provide monthly reports.
  
• Personnel Issues: Address personnel issues with HR, Compliance, and Executive Leadership.
  
• Respect for Individuals: Ensure proper clinical actions are taken to maintain or improve individual health, safety, and stability.
  

• 
  
• Financial Management: Manage Census, LOA’s, Per Diem Rates, payroll costs, and EBITDA targets.
  
• Budget Monitoring: Support Care Team Managers with financial plans/budgets and ensure understanding of budgetary reporting.
  
• Time-and-Attendance: Ensure accurate reporting by monitoring schedules and actual time worked.
  

We are working with a respected and well-established gift company as they hire a Vice President of Product & Brand to join their executive leadership team onsite in the Kansas City metro area.

This is a highly influential leadership role responsible for shaping the company's product vision, brand storytelling, and creative direction, while leading a multidisciplinary team across Product Development, Creative/Marketing, Brand, and Showroom functions.

The VP will help define how meaningful, giftable products are created, positioned, and brought to market across independent retailers, national accounts, e-commerce, and international channels. This leader will work closely with executive leadership to ensure product strategy, brand narrative, and market opportunity remain tightly aligned as the company continues to grow.

This role is onsite at their headquarters in the Kansas City metro. Relocation is required.

What This Leader Will Do

• Define and lead the company's product and brand vision across all categories
• Oversee the entire product lifecycle from concept through launch
• Guide the development of cohesive, market-ready collections that resonate with both specialty retail and large national partners
• Translate consumer insights, design trends, and market opportunities into compelling product strategies
• Lead and mentor a cross-functional organization including product development, creative/marketing, and showroom teams
• Partner closely with executive leadership, sales, sourcing, and operations to drive growth
• Ensure the brand story and product presentation come to life across trade marketing, showrooms, digital channels, and retail environments

Experience Required:

• 10+ years of product development leadership in the gift, home décor, or adjacent consumer product categories
• Experience developing product for national retail accounts and wholesale channels
• Proven ability to lead creative and product teams while translating vision into commercially successful collections
• Experience managing multiple teams and complex product pipelines
• Familiarity with Product Lifecycle Management systems and modern product development processes
• A strategic leader who is both creative and commercially minded

Position Overview

Marlen, headquartered in Riverside, MO is a global leader in premium food processing technologies. Marlen's products have long set the standard for quality and performance in vacuum stuffing and pumping, portioning, size reduction, thermal processing, and food handling. Marlen has been trusted by the world's leading food brands for over 70 years.

The Director of Lifecycle Services is a strategic, commercially focused executive responsible for transforming aftermarket performance into a scalable, customer centric, and highly profitable growth engine. This role is accountable for the financial performance, operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and team development

ensuring that aftermarket becomes a core driver of profitable growth.

As a key member of both the Duravant Lifecycle Services leadership team and the Marlen leadership team, the Director plays a pivotal role in driving aftermarket strategy, market expansion, revenue diversification, and aligning execution across engineering, operations, sales, finance, and the Duravant enterprise.

This position oversees all commercial activities related to parts and service sales and directs all technical and administrative service operations, including installation, repair, preventive maintenance, training, warranty management, and value-add solutions delivered at customer sites.

Candidates must bring proven leadership experience, strong supervisory and project management skills, and solid familiarity with the technologies incorporated into Marlen systems.

Essential Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Commercial Growth

• Provide commercial leadership for all aftermarket functions, including parts sales, field service, project management, and value-added service offerings.
• Serve as a senior leader within both the Duravant Lifecycle Services and Marlen leadership teams, contributing to executive-level strategic planning and decision-making.
• Develop and execute a multi‐year aftermarket growth strategy centered on revenue expansion, margin improvement, and lifecycle value creation.
• Build a structured commercial engine including pricing strategy, disciplined margin management, and proactive campaigns for parts, service, upgrades, and rebuilds.
• Establish a customer‐centric vision that enhances responsiveness, lifecycle support, serviceability, and uptime performance.
• Lead development of new predictable revenue service offerings while conducting ongoing competitive and market analysis to guide prioritization and ensure strategic fit.

Execution Discipline & Operational Excellence

• Oversee recruitment, development, performance management, and daily operations for the Aftermarket team, ensuring adherence to Marlen and Duravant policies and procedures.
• Draft, implement, and maintain policies, processes, and performance metrics that ensure operational efficiency and a high-quality customer experience.
• Implement rigor in initiative prioritization and completion, ensuring that strategic projects are launched, progressed, monitored, and finished.
• Build and enforce disciplined processes for scheduling, installed‐base intelligence, pricing, quoting, field reporting, and KPI review.
• Improve operational results including response time, schedule adherence, first‐time fix rate, warranty cost reduction, and service profitability.
• Reinforce compliance expectations: training completion, expense reporting, AR review participation, and activity.

Product & Market Development

• Drive a culture of proactive customer engagement, rapid issue resolution, and full follow‐through
• Strengthen feedback loops to capture field learnings and translate them into engineering, quality, and product‐improvement actions.
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to build integrated go‐to‐market strategies that highlight Marlen's lifecycle value.

Commercial Growth & Market Positioning

• Direct and coordinate promotional efforts for aftermarket products and services to expand market share, attract new customers, and strengthen competitive positioning.
• Strengthen feedback loops to capture field learnings and translate them into engineering, quality, and product‐improvement actions
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to build integrated go‐to‐market strategies that highlight Marlen's lifecycle value.

Cross‐Functional Influence & Alignment

• Serve as the voice of the customer by facilitating cross‐functional alignment between engineering, operations, service, quality, and finance.
• Drive clear communication, transparency, and accountability to eliminate silos and build trust across the leadership team.
• Engage actively in Duravant Lifecycle Services enterprise initiatives and share best practices.

Leadership, Team Development & Culture

• Build a high‐engagement, high‐accountability service culture with clearer priorities, transparent communication, and consistent follow‐through.
• Create structured development plans, cross‐training programs, and succession readiness.
• Reduce turnover by improving leadership presence, clarity of direction, and proactive team support.
• Model mature conflict resolution, professional communication, and responsibility for resolving team issues

Position-Specific Competencies

• Technical Job Knowledge
• Strategic Commercial Leadership
• Customer Focus & Responsiveness
• Change Leadership, Execution Excellence & Prioritization
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Facilitation Skills
• Communication Proficiency
• Teamwork, Collaboration, Leadership Presence & Trust Building
• Managerial Influence
• Comfort Working in a Matrixed Organization
• Data driven decision making

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline; MBA preferred
• 10+ years of leadership experience with proven aftermarket commercial growth results
• Experience in food processing, or field service industries preferred
• Demonstrated success creating scalable processes and improving service profitability.
• Strong track record of improving customer‐experience metrics.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change and engage cross‐functional teams
• Strong financial acumen and accountability for P&L performance
• Ability to engage effectively at all organizational levels and with customers, partners, and Duravant Operating Companies
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Proven ability to influence, build consensus, and drive alignment across stakeholders
• Proficiency with Office 365, CRM, and ERP systems

Flynn Group entered the Panera system in 2015 with the acquisition of 47 cafes.

Since then, we have more than tripled in size to become the 2nd largest Panera franchisee in the world and continue to grow by building new stores and acquiring other franchise operators.

Flynn Panera is a franchisee of Panera Bread.

Flynn Panera is built on a decentralized business model, which means that each geographic area is led by a Market Leader.

Reporting to the ML are Area Directors, who are multiple unit operators, responsible for the overall functions of the cafés in their areas.

Reporting to the Area Directors are the General Managers, who are the chief Cafe managers responsible for the overall running of their café.

Aiding the management of the Cafe are Assistant Managers, who are responsible for running of their departments and who help with every-day management responsibilities.

Rounding out the cafe leadership are Team Managers.

We strive to hire only the best, starting with our leadership.

Our leaders within Flynn Panera have over 190+ years of experience in the restaurant industry, and 60+ years with Flynn Group.

We are one of seven premier brands of Flynn Group, which was founded in 1999 by Greg Flynn.

It has grown since then to the largest franchise operator in the world.

Flynn owns and operates a diversified portfolio of restaurants in iconic, world class brands across diverse segments, including Applebee's, Arby's, Panera Bread, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Wendy's and Planet Fitness.

Our primary mission is to be the premier operator within each of these brands.

We will achieve this by focusing on our core values; Care Genuinely for People, Play like a Champion, and Win as One.

Position Description Our Panera Bread cafes are upscale, friendly cafes which feature baked breads and pastries.

We serve made-to-order soups, salads and sandwiches as well as specialty espresso beverages.

No Fryers and No Late Nights.

We're known for our artisan breads, quality soups, salads and sandwiches which results in a grease and alcohol-free environment for our associates.

As a manager, this means no late nights, but we do hope you're a morning person.

Managers at our growing cafes supervise up to 75 staff members to ensure a top quality service experience for our guests
- As a Manager at Panera Bread you would be responsible for providing outstanding leadership to your team.

- You should be passionate about the industry, inspiring others, coaching, counseling, creating a profitable environment, and delivering an exceptional customer experience.

- Our Managers must maintain high standards of restaurant cleanliness, sanitation, food quality and safety, and facility management.

At Panera Bread, warmth is our business.

It's what we do best.

We look for like-minded individuals who are ready to surround themselves with fresh food and great people.

- We are looking for experienced restaurant professionals with a steady, stable employment track record, attention to detail, and outstanding interpersonal skills.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a rapidly growing concept.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Restaurant management combines strategic planning, shift organization and day-to-day management activities.

At Panera Bread, restaurant management is fast paced, highly demanding and very rewarding.

Typical work activities for Restaurant Managers:
- Taking responsibility for the overall business performance of the restaurant, including ordering, scheduling, labor management, marketing, facilities management, bakery operations, and catering.

- Analyzing and planning restaurant sales levels and profitability
- Creating and executing plans for sustained profitability
- Primary conduit of information between the associate and the management team
- Retaining and developing the team members and managers
- Manages a budget and controlling costs
- Coordinating the entire operation of the restaurant during scheduled shifts
- Greeting customers and doing table visits to ensure customer satisfaction
- Inspire associates to have fun and be their authentic selves while generating high productivity
- Coach and mentor associates through One-on-One's, Performance Documentation and Performance Reviews
- Anticipates problems and takes action to prevent them
- Serve as the primary resource for resolving associate questions
- Serves as a primary specialist within the bakery‐cafe, ensuring associates are properly trained and fully competent in all aspects of food service and customer support:
- Recruiting and training staff to meet staffing par levels
- Ensures objectives are achieved while operating within all company guidelines, cultural values and following ethical business practices.

- Exhibits a professional image.

Promotes and embodies our Values and Beliefs as outlined on the Premier Card.

Education and Experience
- At least 2-3 years Hospitality Management experience
- A degree or equivalent experience in Hospitality or Hotel/Restaurant Management is preferred
- Food Management Certifications also a plus
- Must have the "Run it Like you Own It Mentality" Perks for our employees:
- Competitive wages
- Profit Sharing (varies by Market)
- Meal Discounts
- Medical, dental and vision insurance available the month after you start
- 401(k) plan with a company match
- Paid vacation
- Development opportunities Physical Standards:
- Must be able to stand and exert well-paced mobility for up to ten (10) hours in length.

- Must have the ability to safely lift pots, pans, glassware, boxes, etc.

up to 50 pounds in weight.

- Must be able to read and write to facilitate communication.

- Must possess finger and hand dexterity for using small tools and equipment.

The associate is responsible for performing the crucial responsibilities of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

The associate should notify Flynn Panera of any reasonable accommodation requests and may need to provide supporting medical documentation.

This job description may not list all duties for this position and the associate in this position may be required to perform other duties to meet business needs.

Flynn Panera, reserves the right to revise this job description at any time.

This job description is not a contract for employment, and either the associate or Flynn Panera may terminate employment at any time.

Flynn Group is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and providing reasonable accommodations/adjustments for individuals with disabilities.

If you require any accommodation or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know.

We look forward to reviewing your application and potentially welcoming you to our premier team!