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Assistant General Manager

Full-time

Step into Leadership with Jamba in 2025! 

We're looking for positive and outgoing Assistant General Managers to bring energy and leadership to our team! This role is unlike any other—you’ll serve as a key support to the General Manager, ensuring seamless store operations, an outstanding guest experience, and strong sales performance. You'll have the opportunity to lead shifts, drive brand excellence, and contribute to the growth of annual sales and profits.

At Jamba, we cultivate a welcoming, vibrant culture where teamwork and passion blend together. Ready to take the next step in your career? Join us and make 2025 your most successful year yet! 


Assistant General Manager Qualifications:

  • Must be at least 18 years of age.
  • High School graduate or commensurate industry experience required. 
  • Must have access to reliable transportation.
  • Ability to pass a background check
  • Restaurant management, food service, outside sales and/or outdoor recreation retail experience.

Assistant General Manager Responsibilities:

  • Understands and communicates the company’s vision, mission, and values.
  • Responsible for maintaining operational excellence in the store.
  • Responds to direction in an accurate and timely manner and ensures the same compliance from the store team.
  • Demonstrates effective leadership behaviors and continuously improves leadership skills.
  • Strives for the ultimate guest service experience 
  • Ensures store has adequate shift coverage at all times, while adhering to scheduling and labor guidelines.
  • Supports the training of shift leads and team members to successfully handle service issues and intervenes when necessary.
  • Motivates and mentors team members on providing guests with product suggestions and information.
  • Educates and engages the community and store guests on all products and services.
  • Maintains impeccable standards concerning store maintenance, administration, and supplies.
  • Provides regular performance feedback to team members and shift leads. 
  • Leads and manages shifts while acting as manager in charge of store. Deploys team members as required to meet business demands and works with GM on necessary staffing decisions. 
  • Communicates clearly, concisely, and accurately to ensure effective shift operations and overall operations of the store.
  • Follows all food safety, cash handling, and operational procedures and policies and ensures that team members are in compliance.
  • Demonstrates accountability: accepts responsibility for one’s own performance/actions: follows through on commitments with a sense of urgency. 
  • Strategizes and drives for results.
  • Serves and inspires others: inspires others to excel; rewards and recognizes great performance. 


Physical Demands:

You will regularly be required to talk, hear, and stand. You will be required to reach, bend, stoop, scoop, pour, carry, push, and lift objects up to 40lbs. There is substantial repetitive motion of the wrists, hands, and fingers. Must be able to maneuver in walk-in coolers and freezers. 

Also, you must be comfortable with contact/immersion of hands in water and sanitation solutions; and contact with produce items, dairy products, and frequent allergen-related items such as nuts, citrus, peanut butter, cinnamon, etc.


Jamba is an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals.


We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that includes team members with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving customers throughout our global communities. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+, veterans are encouraged to apply.


Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal state and local ordinances.

Jamba - Evanston

1732 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
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