Catering Lead
West Saint Paul, MNFull-time$16–19.25/hrPosted 1y agoStill listed 2 days ago
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Panera Bread is hiring a Catering Lead. Panera seeks a Catering Lead to manage and produce catering orders, deliver exceptional service, and promote Panera Catering to local businesses, schools, and events while upholding food safety standards and fostering a culture of warmth and growth.
Key focus areas include Manage and produce catering orders for guests, Create memorable experiences with warm, friendly service and proactive follow-ups, and Assist with delivering orders to guests’ events.
Important skills include Effective Communication, Organizational Skills, Time Management, Customer Service, Marketing, and Food Safety Knowledge.
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Catering Lead
At Panera, our people come first. If you're looking for a place where you can grow, feel supported, be yourself, enjoy great perks, and have a little fun along the way—you're in the right spot. We're here to help you succeed every day, in every way.
Get ready to rise and come join the fun where you will be a part of making the familiar fantastic! Because at Panera, the best thing of bread is sharing it!
What’s In It for You?
- Competitive pay & eligible for team tips
- Free on-shift meals & unlimited fountain beverages
- Flexible & reliable scheduling
- Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays for full-time team members
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, pet insurance & 401(k) with match available
- Career advancement & leadership development opportunities
- Tuition discounts
- Perks & rewards for team members
- Team member assistance program
- And much, much more!
As a Catering Lead at Panera, you play a crucial role in our catering operations. You help guests plan and choose delicious, familiar and fantastic Panera dishes for their events, respond to their inquiries and requirements, and guarantee hassle-free hosting with craveable food delivered promptly and accurately.
As a Catering Lead at Panera, Your Role Includes:
- Manage and produce catering orders for our guests.
- Create memorable experiences with warm, friendly service, effective communication, and proactive follow-ups to ensure every guest leaves satisfied.
- Assist with delivering orders to guests’ events.
- Strictly adhere to health and food safety standards.
- Maintain Panera’s exceptional standards for craveable food quality.
- Build excitement and interest in Panera’s products and services.
- Marketing Panera Catering to local area businesses, schools and events.
- Assist and support your Managers and Team Members as needed.
- Help build our Culture of warmth, belonging, growth, and trust.
This Opportunity Is for You If:
- Minimum age: 18 years of age.
- Complete basic food safety understanding and practice training. (Food Handler’s Card, as required by law).
- Enjoy people and have effective communication skills.
- A self-starter who can meet goals with limited supervision.
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
- Must have your own vehicle that you can use for delivering orders and an acceptable driving record.
- This role requires an individual that can safely operate a passenger motor vehicle and has an acceptable driving record.
- This role requires flexible hours, including nights and weekends in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
- Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull objects 25-50 pounds.
- Capability to stand and walk for up to 3 hours.
- Must be able to clearly communicate and quickly understand guests and associates’ directions in a loud environment.
- Be an ambassador of our Guiding Values and Behaviors by making people smile, learning and growing together, finding solutions and taking initiative, working (and winning) as a team, having fun and celebrating success, and seeing the best in others! __
Equal Opportunity Employer: Disabled/Veterans
Competitive pay: $16.00-$19.25
The actual pay offered will be determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, job-related knowledge, skills, and geographical location. Individual compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.
601409 West St Paul, MN - South Robert Street
How this job compares
Set against the 957 open Catering Lead jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$16–19.25/hr
- Minnesota median$15–18/hr25 hourly ranges
- US median$17–20/hr367 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $17.63/hr, is 6% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($17/hr) — in the middle half of Catering Lead hourly ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 26 open Catering Lead jobs in Minnesota and 957 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Panera Bread (this employer)907 open
- Panera, Flynn Group49 open
- Education
- 0 of the 957 open Catering Lead jobs (0%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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