Plant Area Assistant Manager
Plant Area Assistant Manager required
Job ref: ADV487
We're seeking a plant area assistant manager to flourish in our award-winning GCA garden centre. We're looking for someone with the ability to deliver excellent retail standards with a flexible hard-working approach.
Essential skills
- Organisational and motivational skills – to maximise all staff resources
- Proven retail experience including – Merchandising, ranging, buying, stock control, margin control and sales building.
- To lead by example
- Time management
- Prioritising, communicating and delivering targets and agreed strategies, including EPOS requirements.
- Excellent communication with written records as required
- Feedback with managers / directors
- Active part of weekly managers meetings
- Daily team meetings
- Excellent people skills, able to listen to customers and colleagues and communicate clearly.
- Positive attitude and application
- Ability to deliver excellent retail standards / requirements as listed above, flexible hard-working approach – to achieve 80%+ in all categories via the Garden Centre Association inspection process.
- Respectful approach to all Pughs policies including - health and safety, and use of staff uniforms
- An openness to develop new skills and be an active part of new projects and development
- Able to work some weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis
- Confident use of telephones.
- Lifting and manual work will be required – sometimes in inclement weather
- Some basic I.T. skills may be required at times.
Desired skills (these can be further developed as you work within the team)
- Plant and gardening knowledge,
- Plant retail experience, merchandising of plants and associated products
- Plant maintenance skills
Pugh's Staff Wellbeing Benefits
As a permanent employee of Pugh's, after passing your probation period you will be entitled to the following
- 20%-50%
- Staff Discounts
- Monthly Prize Draws worth £100
- Individual Staff Life Insurance
- Health Assured - Staff Health & Well-Being Support Scheme
- Yearly Personal Development Reviews
- £30 Uniform Allowance
- Yearly Holiday Giveaway
- and more
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