Pastry Chef

Pastry Chef

Holiday Market, an award winning, family-owned gourmet grocery store and bakery, is looking for an inspiring Pastry Chef. The ideal candidate will inspire the bakery team and inspire our customers with custom bakery and pastry creations.

Holiday Market-Royal Oak, MI, has consistently been awarded the best independent gourmet market by publications such as HOUR Detroit. In addition, being named the best place to buy your wedding cake and specialty cakes. Our guiding principle is that good companies are customer focused and great companies are employee focused.

• Love what you do and inspire the team to do the same
• Develop a new pastry menu, enhance current recipes, standardize operations
• Train, motivate & mentor team
• Develop/select creative, cost-effective packaging
• Build sales and control costs
• Create systems for order taking counter sales and production schedule
• Focus on baking and pastries as our cake team is strong
• Efficiently manage your time to be hands on and in the bakery but also to complete any administrative work needed to be done

• Have 5 years of pastry chef management
• Be strong in creating and baking pastries, pies, muffins, quick breads, cheesecakes, etc.
• Have retail bakery experience
• Have the physical capabilities for this position (standing & lifting)

• Performance Bonus
• Autonomy
• Solid bakery team to begin with especially Wedding and specialty cakes
• Medical
• 401K
• 5 days a week on non-peak time retail hours
• Over 15,000 customers passing by baked goods each week

Job Type: Full-time

What once started as a small neighborhood butcher shop and specialty store in 1954, grew each year, aisle by aisle, from our loyal customers' requests. Started by Tom and Janet Violante, Holiday Market focuses on high quality products coupled with friendly neighborhood service. From a 2,500 square feet to now 60,000 square feet, we’ve always preserved our initial focus on quality and service.

Over the years the Violante children, Tom Jr. and Gina Mangold, along with her husband Craig, have overseen the growth that has led Holiday Market to be voted one of the best markets in Metro Detroit, year after year.