Manager at Artisan Bakery



Job Offer: Manager at Artisan Bakery

Akasha Life is currently looking for a Bakery Manager at Artisan Bakery in Suntakhan, Gokarneshwor Municipality.

About Akasha Life

Akasha Life is a youth-led social business start-up with the purpose to sustain life and to support its foundation. To inspire positive change, Akasha Life establishes sustainable business entities like the Artisan Bakery or Agriculture that offer healthy products or services and simultaneously care for the natural resources. At the same time, it creates job opportunities and perspectives for young Nepalese in local communities.

Akasha Life is inspired by the larger vision of the White Lama Tulku Khyungdor Rinpoche to create pathways for the future of our planet and works very closely together with its sister organization Akasha Academy, an institute for integrated education. Profits of the social business support the projects of Akasha Academy NGO in the fields of education, environmental protection, health promotion and women empowerment.

Akasha Life and Akasha Academy are working closely together with its German partner organization Long Yang e.V.

Artisan Bakery

Artisan Bakery is part of the social business Akasha Life. Its main goal is to support a healthy nutrition by offering a variety of high-quality baked goods. We support a local production and consumption and carefully select our ingredients accordingly to promote the regional agriculture.

Artisan Bakery offers employment, especially to support the local youth. Being a social business, we also promote a balanced diet for children by bringing a part of our products as nutritious snacks to schools at affordable rates. Along with educational workshops on nutrition, this promotes a healthy development of the children.

More information: https://www.akasha-academy.org.np/akasha-life 

Role of the position

The role of the Manager will focus on running the bakery, coordinating the work flows and supervising the team. It also includes to further develop and implement a brand and marketing strategy and strengthen the outreach in order to grow the young organization. For the position, regular presence at the office in Suntakhan-3, Gokarneshwor will be required.

Contract period

Initially 1 year, with the possibility of extension; long-term engagement envisioned, starting as soon as possible.

Tasks and responsibilities:

You will

• Be overall responsible for the business development of the bakery,
• Develop and implement a branding and marketing strategy for health-conscious food items,
• Further develop innovative products and activities of the bakery to increase outreach,
• Identify, contact and maintain new customer relationships
• Supervise the team members of Akasha Bakery
• Support the further development and growth of Akasha Life as a Social Business

Required skills and experience:

You should…

• Have successfully completed an advanced education/training in a relevant field
• have at least 3 years working experience in the food industry and/or in the area of business development and/or marketing,
• be passionate about nutrition and health-conscious living
• be creative, innovative and courageous,
• have excellent communication and presentation skills,
• have the ability to work within a team of different social and cultural backgrounds,
• have a strong aspiration to contribute to a positive change
• have a strong identification and commitment towards the overall work of Akasha Life and Akasha Academy,
• have the ability to organize yourself (in workflows) and guide others,
• have solid command of Nepali and English languages, both written and verbal,
• have solid command of MS Office package (especially Excel, Word)
• driver’s license (two-wheeler)

Ideally, you have

• experience in the health and food business sector
• practical leadership experience
• skills in product and/or web design

Candidates interested in working with Akasha Life are requested to send their complete application, including CV, salary expectation and motivation letter in English language, hr@akasha-life.org by 05.05.2024.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the advertisement might be closed prior to the deadline, if suitable candidates apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

In case of questions, do not hesitate to contact us via Email (hr@akasha-life.org). We are looking forward to hearing from you.