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Plantarea & Garden Products Manager

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Plantarea & Garden Products Manager

  • Location:

    Essex, England

  • Sector:

    Horticulture, Garden Centre

  • Salary:

    £30000 - £35000 per annum

  • Contact:

    Dianne Saunders

  • Job ref:

    DS12429

  • Published:

    about 4 years ago

Plantarea & Garden Products Manager
Essex

Our client is developing its brand new garden centre and restaurant which is due to be operational running during the Spring of 2020. Currently being built, the garden centre will create a location and environment for visitors to shop, indulge, visit, enjoy and relax. This new build is looking to recruit an experienced Horticulture Manager who can buy and manage the plants as well as be responsible for the outdoor products including pots, stoneware and patio products. The role is Horticulture and Patio Manager.

Delivering on the job description, the role will suit someone who wants to play a major part as part of the Management team in the centre's development, growth and strategy. This is no ordinary garden centre departmental role, we are looking for someone who ticks all the boxes, with a real passion, with the opportunity to inject their own personality into the department.

The garden centre has a strong plants base, built over the years by its original nursery and this is supported by a brand-new restaurant due to open in August 2020, a large gardening and patio/landscape range, and a very strong pet influence with their Animal brand pet shop.

The Horticulture and Patio Manager will be responsible for the plant, nursery and patio parts of the business, whilst also supporting the Management team and the combined retail team across the whole centre as a Duty Manager. They will also be responsible for their departmental turnover and margins, control of the department's overhead budget lines and managing purchases.

It will be important for the Garden Centre team to work together to maximise sales and control costs to enable it to establish itself efficiently, with the Horticulture Manager being a core driver of this. Strong leadership, communication, teamwork and sharing responsibility will be essential to make this work for the garden centre.

Management will be required to work a minimum of alternate weekends.

Working hours are 40 hours per week.