Job Description
Team Leader - Houseplant Department
Hours: 42 hours/week (alternate weekends)
Location: St Albans
Salary: Competitive DOE
This is a great opportunity to join a well-loved independent garden centre, known for its strong plant range and friendly, hands-on retail environment. They sell a wide selection of houseplants alongside sundries, homewares and gift lines - a creative, customer-focused setting with real scope to make the department your own.
Your Role
As Team Leader for Houseplants, you'll support the retail management team in running the department day-to-day: leading a small team (2-3 people), maintaining plant quality, building seasonal displays, and delivering excellent customer service. You'll help with purchasing and incoming deliveries, keep stock and EPOS records accurate, and make the most of trends and promotions to drive sales.
What We're Looking For
- Strong houseplant knowledge - ID, care, seasonality and pest control
- Retail/supervisory experience with the confidence to prioritise and allocate tasks
- Hands-on approach to merchandising, displays and housekeeping of the area
- Commercial awareness - stock control, basic EPOS and making the most of seasonal peaks
- Comfortable contributing to social media/website content and customer-facing advice
- An understanding of Health & Safety and the ability to lead the team with those standards
Perks & Benefits
Competitive salary for the hours, generous staff discount, supportive team culture and plenty of day-to-day variety in a creative retail environment.
Apply Now
If you're interested, contact Leo at (url removed) or call (phone number removed).
