Trainee Horticultural Manager - Notcutts Garden Centre - Cheshire Area

Notcutts Ltd; Suffolk (VA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in horticulture is seeking a Trainee Horticultural Manager. This full-time role offers a unique development opportunity to gain expertise in horticultural management, supporting a team and inspiring customers with your passion for gardening. Based in Cheshire or Surrey, you will work in a vibrant garden centre environment, learning from industry experts and contributing to a positive customer experience.

Qualifications

• Willingness to learn and develop in horticultural management.
• Passionate about plants and gardening.
• Ability to motivate and lead a team.

Responsibilities

• Support the Horticultural Manager in the plant area.
• Create inspiring visual displays.
• Deliver excellent customer experiences.

Skills

Horticulture

Team Leadership

Customer Service

Education

RHS Qualification

Job description

Apply Before: 31 May 2025

Full time hours - 40 hours per week (including alternate weekends and Bank Holidays on a rota basis).

Competitive salary available

Location – Cheshire or Surrey

Since 1897, Notcutts has helped bring gardens and homes to life with fresh ideas, generations of expertise and friendly advice. We are 100% family owned, with 19 garden centres across the UK and a head office in Woodbridge, Suffolk. We have an exciting, clear strategy for growth and innovation: delivering brilliant customer experiences, investing in people culture, leading on environmental, sustainability and biodiversity agendas and developing and expanding garden centres and restaurants creating a destination customer experience that also includes a thriving website.

We are recruiting a Trainee Horticultural Manager. Imagine spending your working day supporting your team and surrounded by plants, helping people to bring their garden and home to life. Think of the positivity your love for gardening would bring to our customers.

This developmental role will enable you to become trained, knowledgeable and confident in a horticultural management position within the retail environment. This unique development opportunity draws on the experience and expertise of our horticultural experts and suppliers, as well as the RHS for an industry recognised qualification.

We are looking for someone with a willingness to learn and develop and, once training is completed, be ready to take the next step in their horticultural management career. This role is initially based in a garden centre within the Cheshire or Surrey areas, with travel to other garden centres in the area. You’ll be passionate about plants and all things gardening, to be able to provide inspiration to our customers through your knowledge and expertise. You will be equally passionate about motivating, leading and developing a team to deliver a brilliant customer experience, sharing your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm for horticulture to engage a team and ensure the success of the department. It goes without saying that you will enjoy working outdoors in our thriving garden centre, come rain or shine!

Through training, you will gain a commercial understanding of the retail environment, with visual merchandising expertise to create great displays that inspire and reflect the Notcutts brand, bringing the best of horticultural retail to our customers.

You will become a key member of the management team within the Horticultural department, supporting the Horticultural Manager to ensure that the plant area maintains its prestigious reputation for providing first class horticultural expertise, and being part of a busy team that works together to make Notcutts a place customers love to visit.

Notcutts employ motivated, empowered, skilled and diverse teams that work in a safe environment where colleagues enjoy and take pride in where they work.

And here’s something important to know. There’s no such thing as a perfect job candidate, so don’t hold back on applying, we’d love to hear from you. Notcutts is a place where everyone (and everything!) can grow. We’re committed to equality of opportunity, and we welcome applications from every part of our community and beyond.

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