Horticulture Manager

Dobbies Garden Centres; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Employee discounts

Development opportunities

Job summary

Dobbies Garden Centres is seeking a Horticulture Manager to lead our horticulture department and drive exceptional customer experiences across our stores. You will deliver expert plant care guidance, manage budgets, and work with the store GM to uphold high standards within our flagship department.

You will coach and develop teams, adapt to seasonal demands, and collaborate with central support to optimise operations while maintaining safety and customer focus.

Qualifications

• Horticultural expertise with experience of retail management.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets and profitability.
• Ability to identify training needs; coaching and training all levels.
• Adaptability to changing priorities, workload or new regulations.
• Leadership to guide the team through each season with care.

Responsibilities

• Oversee horticulture department operations to maximise profitable sales and growth.
• Provide expert advice on plant care and core gardening products.
• Inspire the team to deliver an exceptional in-store experience.
• Collaborate with central support teams to improve the business.
• Ensure health and safety regulations are followed store-wide.
• Fulfil duty manager responsibilities including key holder duties.

Skills

Horticultural expertise

Retail management

Budget management

Coaching

Adaptability

Leadership

Job description

Our 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. You'll be effectively coaching and training all levels ensuring our teams are delivering a first-class customer experience and safe centre environment
• Adaptability. You'll act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirements
• 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 - we're one team, getting better everyday. We bring a smile. We live and breathe gardens. We make it work for our customers.

What We Offer

• Generous annual leave entitlement. Use your holidays when you want with limited statutory days off required
• Treat yourself with generous uncapped discount across our stores with 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre and 10% off in our food halls
• Access to Stream – 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
• Access to Dobbies Academy – continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes
• Thriving culture; the Dobbies team are passionate, diverse and committed to making it work for our customers

About Us

At Dobbies, we’re proud to have a history dating back to 1865. We were founded by James Dobbie and are the only garden centre retailer to have stores in every nation across the UK.

Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special. In our stores, we showcase this through own brand and branded products, concession partners and services. We champion garden living all-year-round.

Many of our stores feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment.

We offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together, and we have a national charity partner that both our colleagues and customers raise money for.

We’re committed to being a great place to work. We’re one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves, every day; to share their wins and celebrate success. Together, we make it work for our customers.