Plants / Horticulture Manager

Are you an Horticulture professional with good leadership qualities? This role that I am recruiting for is with a people focused business who really value their staff. They are looking for someone with some commercial knowledge who can help drive plant sales and look after a team of Horticulture Advisors.

Their Horticulture Managers play an essential role in delivering customer experience across our stores - driving sales, promoting customer loyalty, providing excellent plant advice and maintaining department standards, whilst working alongside the general manager to set a standard within our flagship department.

Responsibilities:

Oversee the horticulture department operations to maximise profitable sales and growth, whilst creating a unique customer focused environment

Providing expert advice and guidance in relation to plant care, maintenance and core gardening products

Sparking your team's passion for delivering the best in-store experience possible by creating a brilliant customer journey and experience

Working closely with our central support teams, maintaining excellent communication to improve our business

Ensuring all health & safety regulations are carried out across the store, whilst caring for employee and customer welfare

As a member of the senior management team, you will also have duty manager responsibilities including key holder duties

Who we are looking for:

• You'll bring horticultural expertise with experience of retail management
• Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales and improved ways of working
• Ability to identify training needs.
• Adaptability.
• Positively managing change, you'll lead the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the best
• Can demonstrate our values at all times

What they offer:

• Generous annual leave entitlement. Use your holidays when you want with limited statutory days off required
• Treat yourself with generous uncapped discount across their stores.
• Access to Wagestream support your financial wellbeing, with ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for the future and financial advice
• Access to Retail Trust seek confidential support, access to a virtual GP, free counselling service and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platform
• Learning & Development support development programmes