Plants / Horticulture Manager

KAT Recruitment; Lisburn; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading horticulture business in Northern Ireland seeks an experienced Horticulture Manager to oversee sales and lead a team of Horticulture Advisors. The ideal candidate will have a background in horticulture and retail management, excellent communication skills, and commercial awareness. This role includes providing expert advice on plant care and fostering a customer-focused environment. The company offers generous leave, an uncapped employee discount, and support for financial wellbeing.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Uncapped employee discount

Access to financial wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in horticulture and retail management.
• Commercial awareness, understanding of budgets and profitability.
• Ability to identify training needs.

Responsibilities

• Oversee horticulture department operations for profitable sales.
• Provide expert advice on plant care and gardening products.
• Lead the team and ensure excellent customer experience.

Skills

Horticultural expertise

Retail management

Commercial awareness

Adaptability

Job description

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