Forecast Coffee is excited to begin the search for a Cafe Manager for a new location in South Vancouver which is expected to open late 2026. As an extension to our current line up of cafes this new location will offer our fantastic specialty coffee house-made baked goods a small alcohol menu and an elevated everyday food menu.
Forecast Coffee exists to create space to feed the soul igniting our collective passion for each other our community and the outdoors.
Were eager to find the right person who has the experience to be able to lead a team of baristas and bring the Forecast vision to life.
Main Role Duties:
Café/Bar Daily Operations:
- Managing the café/bar while on shift; being an exceptional leader to your team
- Scheduling staff and managing labour
- Preparing and serving coffee food and drinks clearing tables washing dishes getting dirty and leading by example
- Creating a welcoming safe and inclusive environment for staff and customers
- Managing stock inventory and ordering so we can continue to make our customers happy
Administrative Operations:
- Financial Management meeting or exceeding set budgets
- Community Engagement Active involvement in community events building positive relationships in the neighborhood.
- Social Purpose considering environmental and social impact when making decisions for the store.
- Communication professional respectful and prompt communication with all team members suppliers and stakeholders.
- Training will be provided however experience in some (or all) of these aspects will be considered a great asset.
Specific Duties
This role comes with the following specific duties:
- Hiring firing and discipline
- Providing all team members with fulsome basic training following Forecast Training Program
- Ongoing development plans for team skill improvement and regular one-on-one meetings with team
- Quarterly all-hands staff meeting
- Creating profitable weekly schedules (weekly)
- Approving vacation and time off requests according to business needs
- Bank reconciliations and cash drops (every 2 weeks)
- Approving hours and tip reports (weekly Monday)
- Perform Café Health Check (weekly)
- Monitoring / adjusting weekly task list and delegating to team to ensure everything on list gets done to appropriate level
- Reporting maintenance issues and booking service according to schedules or needs
- Weekly inventory to assist with accurate ordering (orders Monday and Thursday)
- Receiving orders checking for accuracy and entering into our Inventory system
- Month end inventory (last week of month)
- Managing regular communication to the team
- Manage in-store events program by meeting with event leaders planning operations and bringing event ideas to life
- Maintain a record keeping procedure for all certification and licenses
- Attend weekly all-hand Manager meeting collate data and bring ideas and issues to solve
- Identifying areas of improvement and bring to Leadership to discuss and resolve
Who YOU Are
Were looking for someone with lots of experience of working autonomously with the following experience:
Minimum 5-year previous experience in a similar role at Manager level
Specialty coffee experience passion knowledge and understanding of coffee roasting processes and origin
Experience of training and development of a team
Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
Understanding of POS and inventory software
Food Safe Level 1 (or higher)
Serve-it-Right Certificate
Basic first-aid Certificate
Ability to remain composed under pressure
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Willingness to accept and follow direction from management
Confident in delegating tasks coaching and directing your team
Experience running your own business or a stand-alone location within a larger organization would be very beneficial
Why Work With Us
Because we are a young passionate company with fantastic coffee! And we offer a great compensation package including an incentive bonus extended health benefits cell phone allowance and daily tips/gratuities. We encourage a healthy work/life balance including flexible schedule free meals on shift and discounts across all of our stores.
Also We welcome employee input and provide a fun safe inclusive and supportive work setting for all. We love what we do and want our staff to feel the same way.
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