Floral Assistant

OSTTRA Group; Danbury (CT); On-site; USD 24,000 - 28,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Family & personal time

Life insurance

Job summary

Stew Leonard’s, a family-owned fresh food store, seeks a part-time Floral Assistant to support the floral department by preparing flowers for arrangements, assisting customers, and maintaining displays. Responsibilities include helping customers with product selection, assisting floral designers with bouquets, rotating stock to keep displays fresh, and delivering arrangements when needed.

Candidates should have a High School Diploma and knowledge of flowers.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Knowledge of different types of flowers.
• Safely use pruning shears and box cutters.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide outstanding customer service by helping customers with product selection and answering questions.
• Assist floral designers with arrangements, bouquets, and displays for various occasions.
• Answer phone and take orders.
• Keep displays fresh by rotating flowers.
• Process flowers and care for plants.
• Inform customers about care and handling of flowers.
• Deliver arrangements when necessary.
• Adhere to health, sanitation, and safety regulations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Customer service

Communication skills

Flower knowledge

Pruning tools

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Stew Leonard’s, a family-owned and operated fresh food store founded in 1969, has locations in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. Stew’s earned its nickname, the “Disneyland of Dairy Stores” because of its country-fair atmosphere, with costumed characters and animated entertainment throughout the store that keep children entertained while parents shop.

Floral Assistant

Part Time Hourly – Estimated pay range $17.25/hr to $20.00/hr depending on qualifications and experience

Must be at least 18 years and older

Job Summary

Floral Assistants provide support to the floral department with a variety of activities such as helping prepare flowers for arrangements and displays, assisting customers, maintaining supplies and a clean work environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide outstanding customer service by helping customers with product selection and answering questions
• Assistant floral designers with arrangements, bouquets, and displays for a variety of occasions
• Answer phone and take orders
• Keep displays fresh by properly rotating flowers
• Process flowers and care for plants
• Inform customers about care, maintenance, and handling of flowers
• Deliver arrangements, when necessary
• Adhere to all health, sanitation, and safety regulations
• Perform other duties, as assigned

Education and Experience (include knowledge, skills and abilities)

• High School Diploma, or equivalent
• Knowledge of different types of flowers
• Safely use pruning shears and box cutters
• Excellent customer service
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Personal Characteristics

• Organized
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Active listener
• Great work ethic
• Problem solver
• Self-motivator
• Flexible
• Honest

Working Conditions

• Exposure to cooler than normal office temperatures possible to maintain product freshness
• Position requires walking, squatting, bending, pushing, pulling and lifting with a maximum weight of 50lbs.

Satisfy

• Greet customers with a friendly smile and positive attitude, ensuring that each customer feels welcome and appreciated.

Teamwork

• Collaborate with team members to ensure the smooth operation of the store, offering assistance and support where needed.

Excellence

• Improve and maintain the efficiency of the store in order to reach success.

Wow

• Be a positive ambassador for the store, representing our S.T.E.W. values in all interactions with customers and team members. You are the biggest WOW!

Why you’ll love working here!

Family Oriented: We respect the personal balance between work and family with career opportunity and growth- over 80% of our managers have been promoted from within.

Benefits

High value, high quality Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, 401 K plan, family & personal time, life insurance and more!

Environment

Have you seen the Avocado Girls? Chiquita Banana? Or the singing Parrot?

Pay Day

We’re thrilled to offer our team members Dayforce Wallet – a new way to get paid. Say bye-bye to pay day and hello to pay your way. Get your pay as soon as you earn it, at no cost to you – It’s your money, why should you have to wait? Request your pay as you earn it.

We take pride in the power of diversity, inclusion, and being socially responsible to the communities which we live and do business

Stew Leonard's is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.