JOIN OUR TEAM!

🍨 Full Time - Join Our Gelato Team as store manager! 🍨

Competitive salary and performance based benefits. Benefits include:
-Paid sick leave
-Paid vacation time
-Health insurance
-Bonus based on performance and growth goals

We are looking for a full-time, experienced and dedicated manager to start in July!

We're growing! We just turned eleven years old and building a plan to expand our business in 2027 and beyond. We re proud of our Italian heritage, love gelato and can not wait to share it with a larger community. Expansion means we can collaborate with more farmers and do more work in our communities through educational programs. We are dedicated to maintaining a supportive, collaborative and fun work environment. We're a small team looking for the right fit for our Famiglia!

To thrive in this role, you'll need great intuition, management instincts, strong organizational skills, and solid Front of House experience. You ll take the lead on all things FOH from daily operations to creating an outstanding guest experience. You'll build and support a strong team by hiring great people, setting schedules, onboarding new staff, and helping team members grow. Training and maintaining our culture are key parts of the job, along with ensuring we stay on top of health and safety standards. You ll also handle staff reviews and keep communication flowing between the team and our guests.

Primary Responsibilities: 

  • Plan, organize and coordinate gelato preparation and sales operations

  • Deliver Professional, FUN & positive leadership for Team Members

  • Provide exceptional customer service

  • Respond efficiently and accurately to customer complaints

  • Ensure compliance with safety and sanitation regulations

  • Recruit, hire, train, supervise, coach, and counsel Team Members

  • Create and update SOPs for FOH

  • Update and maintain training materials

  • Onboard and train new hires as well as refresh training with current staff

  • Review staff performance quarterly and provide feedback to improve productivity

  • Create team schedules and supervise shifts

  • Maintain service quality control

  • Maintain weekly and monthly reports as required

  • Manage POS and provide an accurate accounting of all sales

  • Foster and lead sales in all channels to meet sales budgets and forecasts

  • Collaborate and help execute community events to reach larger audiences

  • Meet with Owner/s on a weekly basis

  • Lead weekly meetings with team members

  • Manage and expand B2B relationships

  • Maintain inventory counts

  • Assist in buying and ordering new and recurring merchandise

  • Lead and manage event, private event bookings


    The above points should not be considered an all-inclusive description of the job or job duties. Team Members in all positions may be asked to perform other tasks when needed, during times of co-worker’s absence, or to balance workload(s), retail process and/or retail volume changes 


Requirements
 

  • Proven work experience as a food industry manager or similar role

  • Proven customer service experience

  • Ability to work independently

  • Strong leadership, motivation and people skills

  • Strong financial management skills

  • Ability to drive in Oregon and Washington

  • Ability to do off site events - with work van and gelato bike

  • Open availability, Monday - Sunday (including afternoons, evenings, weekends & holidays)

  • Italian language skills are a bonus

  • Hospitality Management or Culinary school is not a requirement but a plus!


    Does this sound like you? We want to hear from you!

    Please send an email to sales@pinologelato.com and include:

  • Resume/CV

  • A short blurb about why you want to work with us!

  • 4 professional references 

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BENEFITS:

Competitive pay: Salary Range 60-75K

Health Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance coverage

Paid Time Off: Two paid weeks of vacation the first year, from the second year 3 weeks.

Bonus: Eligibility at year end based on performance

Team Member's Discounts: Enjoy 50% employee discounts