Greggs CV example

You do not need a CV for a Greggs job: its online profile asks for your work history, and you may choose to upload a CV, which fills the profile in for you.

This example is a bakery production worker’s CV for a Greggs team member job on 5am shifts, in Word and PDF, with each part of the advert matched to a line.

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Lorraine Pike

Bakery production operative

Leatherhead · 07700 900754 · [email protected]

Profile

Bakery production operative with 18 years on the early shift at a large commercial bakery, used to 5am starts, food hygiene rules and keeping a line moving. Made redundant when the site closed in June 2026. Looking for a team member job on morning shifts, serving customers as well as baking.

Experience

Production Operative | Hartwell Bakeries, Leatherhead | April 2008–June 2026

Worked the 5am shift on the bread and roll line: loaded the ovens and checked bake times and colour against the specification.

Packed and labelled up to 4,000 products a shift, checking dates and allergen labels on every batch.

Cleaned the line to the hygiene schedule at the end of each shift and signed the cleaning record.

Covered other stations when colleagues were off, from mixing to dispatch.

Trained 15 new starters on safe working and the allergen rules in the last three years.

Shop Assistant | Grove Newsagents, Epsom | 2004–2008

Served customers at the counter and sorted the morning papers for the delivery rounds from 5:30am.

Qualifications

Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene for Manufacturing (2024)

Allergen awareness training (2025)

GCSEs including English and Mathematics (1990)

Skills

Ovens, bake times and quality checks

Food hygiene, allergen and date checks

Cleaning to a schedule

Training new starters

Early starts, 5am every weekday for 18 years

Availability

Monday to Friday mornings from 5am, 20 to 30 hours a week. Own car, so an early start without public transport is no problem.

Fictional example for a bakery production worker applying to Greggs. Every person and employer in it is invented. Replace every detail with your own.

How Greggs takes applications

How you apply	What it means	What to do with your CV
A team member job (most shop jobs)	You apply online on the Greggs Careers Hub, and your profile asks for your contact details, work history, equality questions and any unspent convictions. You may choose to upload a CV, which creates your profile automatically, or connect with LinkedIn. Previous experience is not essential.	No CV needed. If you have one, upload it to save typing your work history, then read every field it fills in, especially job titles and dates, before you apply.
A shift manager or shop manager job	The same online application. Shift Manager adverts ask for previous team supervisory experience in a similar, customer-focused job, and Greggs looks for shop managers with food retail management experience.	Write the CV first, so each part of the advert has a line from your supervising experience, then upload it with the application.
Shift patterns	Each advert gives its contract hours and shift pattern. Some set fixed shifts, such as weekday mornings from 5am, and some say the pattern can be discussed at interview. Greggs asks you to apply if your availability matches.	Put your availability on the CV, and say how you will get to an early start if the advert warns there is no public transport.

From the Greggs Careers Hub, its recruitment privacy notice, its retail roles page and two adverts, checked 18 October 2026.

What a Greggs team member advert asks for, and where this CV shows it

The job asks you to	Where this CV shows it
Provide fast and friendly service to customers	Four years serving at a newsagent’s counter from 5:30am
Prepare the products, including managing the ovens	Loading the ovens and checking bake times and colour
Make sure the shop is clean and tidy	Cleaning the line to the hygiene schedule and signing the record
Be willing to learn	Covering every station from mixing to dispatch
Morning shifts from 5am, Monday to Friday, with no public transport at that hour	18 years of 5am starts; own car

The left column is from a Greggs Team Member advert for a shop in Cobham, read 18 October 2026 on the Greggs Careers Hub, with the ovens from a Shift Manager advert’s list of tasks, put briefly here. Food work from a factory, kitchen or café counts: it shows you can prepare food safely from your first shift.

Facts checked against Greggs: Careers Hub registration on 18 October 2026, Greggs: Recruitment privacy notice on 18 October 2026, Greggs: Retail roles on 18 October 2026, Greggs: Team Member, Cobham (advert) on 18 October 2026 and Greggs: Shift Manager, Guildford (advert) on 18 October 2026.

Pay at Greggs

Team Member adverts read 18 October 2026 offered £12.91 an hour, or £11.03 if you are under 18, and a Shift Manager advert £14.00 an hour, including a 20p band increment; pay is weekly. The adverts also list up to 50% off for you and a family member, free hot drinks on shift, paid breaks, a share of 10% of profits and a pension matched up to 7% (Greggs).

Inside this example

Profile: 51 words here
Experience: 114 words here
Qualifications: 19 words here
Skills: 27 words here
Availability: 24 words here

How to write yours

Check what the upload fills in

Uploading a CV creates your Greggs profile automatically. Read every field before you apply: a job title or date read wrongly is easier to fix now than to explain at interview.

Match the shift pattern

Greggs adverts give their hours and shifts, and some start at 5am with no public transport. Say when you can work and how you will get there, so the shop knows you can do the shifts before it calls.

Count food work from anywhere

A food factory, a kitchen or a café: lines about ovens, hygiene and date checks show you can prepare food to a standard from day one.

Show you can serve

Greggs team members do it all: serving, preparing food, managing the ovens, stocking and cleaning. If your recent work was behind the scenes, include a job where you served customers, even if it was years ago.

Questions about a Greggs CV

Do I need a CV to work at Greggs?

No. Greggs asks for your work history in its online profile, and you may choose to upload a CV as well (Greggs, checked 18 October 2026). On the Careers Hub, uploading a CV creates your profile automatically.

Do I need experience to be a team member?

No. Greggs says previous work experience is not essential: if you are willing to learn, it gives you all the training you need. New starters begin with 12 weeks of blended training, including on-the-job training, e-learning and regular reviews with the shop manager (Greggs).

What does a Greggs team member do?

A bit of everything: serving customers, preparing food, managing the ovens, stocking shelves and keeping the shop clean, for orders in the shop and through delivery, Click + Collect and drive-thru (Greggs).

What will Greggs check before an offer?

Proof of your right to work in the UK, such as a passport, birth certificate or visa, and for some roles documents such as a driving licence, qualifications or a DBS check (Greggs).

Can I become a shift manager?

Greggs says team members may get the chance to step into a responsible role, leading shifts and supporting colleagues. Shift Manager adverts ask for previous team supervisory experience in a similar, customer-focused job (Greggs).

Keep it to one page. Greggs reads your work history from the profile, so a short CV with your last two jobs, your food hygiene training and your availability is enough.

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