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See below for detail on our current roles!

Pastry Chef

As a Pollen pastry chef you will have a deep-rooted interest in Pastry- Viennoiserie and Patisserie. With a keen eye for detail and outstanding quality, you’ll bring enthusiasm, creative passion and a strong drive to develop across both disciplines as our brand grows.

Under the guidance of our senior pastry team you will play an essential part in realising the vision created by the Founders and senior management, contributing ideas, creating new products and constantly evolving your skills within the distinctly refined aesthetic of the Pollen style.

THE ROLE:
• Working across Patisserie and Viennoiserie departments: dough lamination, shaping, baking
• Efficiently managing and ensuring completion of daily & weekly prep tasks
• Management and completion of food safety processes, daily/weekly record keeping
• Processing wholesale product dispatch
• Product ordering and managing deliveries into the business
• Quality control management on incoming produce and ingredients
• Product development: contributing creatively to keep our product range evolving

ABOUT YOU:
• Minimum of 1 year experience in a pastry role, intermediate knowledge of Patisserie and/or Viennoiserie
• Keen eye for detail and consistency, obsessive about quality
• Highly organised and able to work efficiently and collaboratively as part of a small team
• Passionate and knowledgeable about our industry and contemporaries
• Proactive about your own development and keen to grow with our business

Salary: Up to £26k

Apply at: jobs@pollenbakery.com

Senior Baker

We are seeking an experienced Senior Baker who shares our fascination for all things sourdough and obsession for uncompromising quality to help lead our busy bakery team.

Working closely and collaboratively with our Head Baker you will engage and inspire your team to deliver outstanding products, creating a culture of development and creativity to keep our products, brand and team evolving.

With exciting plans ahead for 2024 this is a rare opportunity to join our growing senior team…

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
• Leading the day-to-day operations of our high-volume bakery
• Inspiring and motivating your team to deliver the highest of quality standards across all products
• Empowering your team to share ideas and creativity through continual development
• Managing all food safety processes and daily/weekly record keeping within the bakery
• Managing product ordering, production, stock and wastage in line with sales projections and patterns

ABOUT YOU:
• Minimum 2 years experience working with sourdough products
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of sourdough baking
• Clear and confident communicator, quick to share honest feedback and praise
• Calm, positive and consistent
• Highly organised and able to work efficiently in a compact space
• Creatively driven, obsessive about quality
• Passionate about people development

Salary: Up to £30k

Apply at: jobs@pollenbakery.com