£30,000 – £39,999

Nursery Manager

Job Ref W388

Our client is an independent, 100% family-owned award-winning Garden Centre retailer, wonderfully situated in the centre of England with a 200-year-old history. Their main site is a 100,000sq ft freehold retail destination attracting over a million visitors a year. The site is a premium department store style retail operation with concessions, food hall, restaurant, as well as boasting 6 acres of display gardens. Also on site is their own production nursery that grows a range of environmentally sustainable plants in peat free compost for the retail space and ecommerce. They are now looking for an experienced Nursery Manager to ensure the newly established nursery produces quality plants not only to drive sales, but also gain horticultural credibility across their award-winning stores and website.

Job Description:

The role of Nursery Manager would involve reporting to the Executive Chairman to ensure the continuation of growing top quality nursery stock. Developing, motivating and training your team, and ensuring a safe working environment.

Main Duties Include:

Effectively managing growing teams, systems, and resources to produce crops of optimal quality at the right time, by specifying, monitoring, and giving technical guidance
Carrying out regular crop walks to identify cultural requirements and monitor pest and disease, as well as leading the walks for the buying department
Recruiting team colleagues as required to meet seasonal peaks, as well as staff training, conducting performance reviews and disciplinaries as required.
Ensuring all growing environments are effectively controlled and crops manipulated to ensure sales timings and targets are achieved, and waste percentages reduced
Work with the buying team to look at new crop opportunities, as well as ensuring stock control systems are kept up to date, including quarterly stock takes
Continually improving the efficiency of the growing processes and labour efficiency
Liaising with internal departments to ensure facilities and equipment are in good working order, and pests and diseases are identified and dealt with at the earliest opportunity
Using horticultural production software to input data and reference production plans
Overseeing weekly programme of plant maintenance is in place at all times to ensure preventative crop protection and crop management are in place for the best quality plants for the garden centre market at their seasonal peak.
Work with the Head of Estates to ensure all areas of nursery operations remain a safe place to work, adhering to all health and safety measures, completing the required training, risk assessments and any accident information where necessary.
Participating in the weekend duty rota
Line managing staff, taking responsibility for yearly appraisals, training needs and disciplinary matters

Candidates must have a number of years growing experience, and will preferably hold a qualification in commercial Horticulture, however this is desirable and not essential. With experience growing a wide range of quality, garden centre standard, stock; from bedding to hardy nursery stock.

Must be IT literate in Office, and hold a strong working knowledge of Excel
Strong leadership skills with the capacity to listen and respond
Proven coaching skills, with the ability to give constructive feedback
Hold a good working knowledge of irrigation and sand filter systems, modern potting machines
Candidates must hold their PA1&PA6 spraying certificates

Standard working week for this role is 39.5 hours, with flexible working options – peak seasonal hours with some weekend working and reduced off season hours.

Holiday entitlement 33 days inclusive of Bank Holidays.

If this Nursery Manager vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Matt Parker on 01233 732767 or matthew@horticruitment.com.

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Thank you for the interest you have shown in this Nursery Manager vacancy. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not possible to respond to every one. Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 14 days, your application for this Nursery Manager vacancy will have been unsuccessful.

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Sole Gardener

A fine private house based in Marlborough, Wiltshire with gardens and grounds of approximately 1 acre, is seeking a sole gardener to take ownership and manage the gardens. Applicants for this role should have hands-on experience of working in large private gardens and are knowledgeable and passionate all rounded gardeners with a creative flare. The position is open to candidates looking for full time employment.

The garden contains extensive lawn with mature and young trees throughout the grounds, as well as wildflower meadows. The garden is an important part of the estate, so the owners are looking for an experienced gardener to work with them to continue to drive their garden forward and maintain it to a high horticultural standard. The opportunity exists to play a creative role in the development of garden areas, so applicants with a keen eye for plant use and development are encouraged to apply. The owners are keen for the successful applicant to establish a vegetable garden on site, as well as bring new ideas to the table when it comes to creating new elements of the garden.

Applicants will have a good understanding of the seasons, excellent horticultural knowledge, and must be willing and able to carry out all aspects of gardening including pruning, plant propagation, planting, weeding as well as the lawncare, leaf collection and other horticultural duties as they arise. The suitable applicant will ideally possess a minimum of 3 years’ professional gardening experience as well as a horticultural qualification; however, this is not a requirement. Applicants must be fit and healthy and be self-motivated. Additional tickets such as PA1/PA6, and chainsaw certificate would be an advantage but are not essential for this role.

This is an exciting opportunity for a gardener with excellent practical skills in all aspects of craft gardening and is able to maintain the garden and grounds to a high standard as well as bring new ideas to the table to further develop the gardens. A gardener who is able to use their initiative and has the skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to work closely with the owners in helping to create and develop certain aspects of the garden, as well as occasionally manage external contractors.

SALARY: Up to £35,000 DOE

LOCATION: Marlborough, Wiltshire

JOB No: EC50890

If this Sole Gardener vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Sara Yassin on 01233 733510 or info@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk.

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Sole Gardener

An attractive opportunity has arisen for a Sole Gardener on a beautiful private estate in much sought-after location 7 miles from Hereford. The position would suit an experienced and skilled gardener with an active interest in biodiversity.

The stunning 17^th century grade II listed building is surrounded by an interesting and diverse garden containing a Venetian Garden, Mediterranean garden, rose garden, walled garden modelled on an alpine garden with lawns, borders, flower beds and rose bushes. On either side of the 50-meter entrance path to the property are two orchards and a vineyard of about 2.2 acres. The formal gardens are about 3 acres including a vegetable plot, large and small greenhouse and a fruit cage that will need tending to by the successful applicant, as will climbing wisteria on the walls of the main house. As part of the wider estate is an arboretum with specimen trees. A previous owner won gold at Chelsea.

The Sole Gardener will be responsible for reinstating but also shaping the future of the garden. They will have initiative and a creative eye to contribute new ideas to improve and develop the gardens and estate e.g. irrigation, pollarding, hedging. The successful candidate will take ownership and great pride in their work delivering beautiful results.

Applicants should have experience of the above, be confident and skilled in pruning methods, i.e., of wisteria and roses, and be physically fit with good horticultural knowledge and plant identification skills. Excellent knowledge of lawn maintenance, shrubs and herbaceous plants is important. Candidates will ideally possess an academic horticultural qualification e.g. RHS level 2 or similar, previous experience delivering maintenance for a high quality garden. As the position is singlehanded, discipline, time management and organisation are essential. As is the ability to work alone and within a wider team and supervise and manage outside contractors e.g. tree surgeons.

Applicants will ideally hold spray tickets (PA1/PA6) however training can be provided as long as there is the willingness to acquire. A chainsaw licence would be beneficial, as is experience with a wide range of gardening machinery. Candidates should be willing and able to undertake the general garden handyman duties required of a Sole Gardener, have a high attention to detail and tidy in their work. A full driving licence may be useful as the property is located in a small village.

This opportunity would suit a gardener who is: creative, reliable, hardworking, a good communicator, genial, flexible and an animal lover.

SALARY: £30,000 - £35,000 depending on experience

LOCATION: Hereford

JOB No: EC50714

If this Sole Gardener vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Sara Yassin on 01233 733510 or info@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk.

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Gardener

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and dynamic Gardener with experience in garden maintenance to a high horticultural standard on a wonderful country estate in Surrey.

The beautiful all-seasons garden comprises of a large pond, herbaceous and mixed borders with a vast array of ornamental species including a blue garden and a red garden, rose garden, kitchen garden, lawn, small arboretum with specimen oaks, and a woodland area.

Applicants for this role will have experience working in a private estate garden and / or hold a horticultural qualification. The gardener will have experience with pruning, planting, growing as well as general garden maintenance including mowing, weeding, strimming and hedge cutting. In addition, the gardener will have good practical skills, be hands on, backed up with reasonable plant knowledge.

The owners are keen to promote a friendly and rewarding working environment, so it is important that you have a positive attitude, with good communication skills and are able to get on well with all other staff members. The successful applicant will have a dynamic and flexible approach as assistance may be required in other areas of the estate.

The owners would be happy to consider two full time vacancies for a couple and would consider either a Gardener / housekeeper couple or gardening couple. A 2-bed accommodation is available rent free for the successful candidate that is ideal for a single person or couple. The accommodation is not suitable for children or pets.

Working hours are anticipated to be Monday to Fridays 8am -5pm with some variation depending upon the season. Applicants will need to have a full driving licence and own transport.

SALARY: Circa £30,000 depending on experience

LOCATION: Surrey

JOB No: EC50740

If this vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Sara Yassin on 01233 733510 or info@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk.

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Plantarea Manager

Plantarea Manager required

Job Ref G024

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Plantarea Manager to join a family run, independent garden centre near Wigan. Established in the 1980's, this thriving garden centre offers a wide range of plants, garden furniture, homeware and garden related products to local customers and passing coach parties from the nearby M6 motorway. The garden centre also contains a range of franchises including well known national brands. As Plantarea Manager you will play a vital role in delivering excellent customer service, increasing plant sales, and enhancing plant displays on the centre. The company has plans to further expand the plant offer and is looking for a passionate and driven individual to deliver sales growth while maintaining margins and high standards.

Job Brief

As a Plantarea Manager, you will deliver an exceptional service to customers, ensuring the quality of the plants are presented to a high standard. In this fast-pace, hands on role, you will focus on all areas of plant care/sales. You will also have key-holder responsibilities and deputise in the absence of the Garden Centre Manager.

Key Responsibilities

Working with the Centre Manager to ensure the smooth running of the Plantarea.
Working proactively, enthusiastically and with drive to succeed.
Key Holder – Acting as Duty Manager in the absence of the Centre Manager on their weekday and alternate weekend off work and providing cover for the Centre Manager when on business days off site, days off or holiday/sickness.
Working closely with the company plant buyer to make sure the centre is displaying an appealing range of stock
Keeping track of all department KPI’s, identifying best sellers and weaker lines and reporting back to wider management.
Checking and receiving deliveries of product following the required procedure.
Merchandising of product to the required standards.
Maintenance of stock through watering and health control to the required standard, ensuring wastage is minimized.
Maintaining signage to the required standard for Merchandising and Sales.
Develop, motivate, and lead your team and monitor their performance and ongoing training.
Work with your team to make sure we continue to deliver an unrivalled plant offering
Ensuring a high level of customer service is maintained.
Ensuring all staff in the plantarea area are fully informed and carry out their duties in an efficient manner.

Candidate Skills

As the Plantarea Manager, you’ll need to have the following experience:

A proven track record in garden centre retailing with several years’ experience working in a Plantarea of Nursery
Extensive plant knowledge
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
A strong understanding of EPOS systems
A strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial spirit
A qualification in a horticultural subject would also be an advantage
Forklift licence and PA1 & PA6 spraying certificates are strongly desirable but not essential
A full clean driving licence is essential for this role.

If you have experience in any of the following areas, we would like to hear from you.

Nursery Manager
Nursery Supervisor
Nursery Team Leader
Plantarea Assistant/Supervisor
Plantarea Assistant Manager.

If this Plantarea Manager vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Tom Little on 01233 732767 or tom@horticruitment.com.

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Sales Executive

Sales Executive required

Job Ref V001

Our client is a family owned, leading domestic landscape business based in the West Midlands, that has been established for nearly 50 years, offering an extensive range of homegrown, quality plant material. Customers from the trade, design, landscape, and commercial sectors can tap into their wealth of experience and horticultural knowledge to guide them through their plant selections. As part of the company’s ambitious growth and diversification plans, they have expanded their wholesale Cash & Carry operations at their 7-acre Nursery site. The company has plans to expand further its trading activity into the landscape market and thus has created an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated person with a can-do attitude to join their friendly, people focused team as Sales Executive to grow alongside the business.

Job Description:

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wishes to develop a great career in a modern, creative company with great values. The role requires a person to manage, develop and grow sales through the Cash & Carry unit and build sales into the local landscaping marketplace. You will be working with the management team to ensure that the nursery is stocked with the appropriate product lines that meet the needs to the clients whilst ensuring regular stock turn to enable to nursery to maintain high quality standards, including being creatively displayed and presented. The role involves working closely with Procurement, despatch, and production to ensure that as a team the company deliver a great service to their clients.

Main Duties:

Generating new clients and promoting the business in the local area, whilst growing existing accounts
Assisting clients with their purchases on the Cash & Carry with suitable plant selections
Pricing incoming Cash & Carry stock and customer enquiries to maximise potential profit margins
Ensuring sales orders are processed efficiently, whilst following up on quotes and where possible convert to orders
Working closely with marketing to ensure well targeted marketing spend, providing contend and ideas, and helping in the development of the online sales platform
Attending trade stands and events to promote the company
Looking at new stock lines that add value
Working with Procurement to build a suitable supplier base and assisting with forward planning for future stock requirements

This position would suit someone who has experience in a customer facing role, preferably in a horticultural environment such as a Garden Centre, nursery, or related industry. The ideal candidate will need to be reliable with a passion for customer service, have a positive attitude, be well organised and be able to work well under pressure.

Additional Information

Working hours 8am – 5pm Monday to Friday
40-hour week
Pension scheme with up to 3% contribution matching
23 Days holiday per annum plus public holidays
Staff discount

If this Sales Executive vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Sophie Sharpe on 01233 732767 or sophie@horticruitment.com.

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Grower

Grower required

Job Ref P052

Located near Ashford, the nursery produces and supplies a large range of premium quality plants to the landscape and amenity markets. They currently have a new opportunity available to work within a dynamic, professional and successful business.

Job Description:

The client is looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic person with a natural horticultural flair to join their production team. The aim of the role is to drive their tree and specimen production numbers and quality forward to meet current and future demands.

The controller will have overall responsibility for all field grown stock, plus the specimen and containerised tree run areas. Reporting to the Head of Nursery Operations, duties will include overseeing a small team of up to 6 staff, carrying out all planting, husbandry, potting and lifting activities. As an ideal candidate you will have extensive production experience (preferably working with trees) and a good understanding of the horticultural industry. You will be self-motivated, efficient, and methodical with very good leadership, organisational and communication skills. Good plant knowledge and great attention to detail are essential.

A clean driving licence would also be beneficial. Full induction training will be provided for the role. Normal working hours are 7.30am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday (Saturday morning working and working additional hours may be necessary during peak times).

Key role responsibilities include:

Ensure all staff are appropriately trained and their training is kept up to date to ensure safe working practices when working with heavy machinery.
Ensure adherence to the Company’s health & safety policies and processes. always maintaining a safe working area.
Develop yearly production plans with the technical controller and ensure programmes are being followed by the team.
Maintain quality of all products grown in fields and containers and take appropriate action where required to ensure the best possible standards.
Actively involved in trying new products, growing techniques, and assisting with supplier visits; keeping up to date with developments in the industry.
Ensure stock takes are being done according to established schedules.
Liaise with the team and Head of Nursery Operations to ensure planning of labour, resources and materials is accurate and timely.
Help develop new protocols and procedures to enhance and streamline ways of working and develop KPIs to drive the business forward.

If this Grower vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Matt Parker on 01233 732767 or matthew@horticruitment.com.

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Commercial Sales Executive

Commercial Sales Executive required

Job Ref P051

Job Description:

The company is looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic person with a natural sales ability to join the commercial sales team. You will be involved in the day-to-day processing of sales enquiries and estimates, their follow-up and successful conversion through to order. The ability to focus on delivering company targets and margins while maintaining the standards demanded by the client is key.

Reporting to the Head of Sales and Marketing, you will take responsibility for the account management of a selected range of clients, seeking out profitable new business and developing existing relationships within an agreed framework. As an ideal candidate you will have extensive sales and customer service experience and a good understanding of the landscape supply market. You will be self-motivated, efficient, and methodical with very good organisational, communication and IT skills.

Good plant knowledge and great attention to detail are essential. A clean driving licence would also be beneficial. Full induction training will be provided for the role. Normal working hours are 7.30am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday (Saturday morning working and working additional hours may be necessary during peak times).

Key role responsibilities include:

Taking responsibility for a range of key accounts to nurture and develop mutually beneficial partnerships
Taking enquiries from clients by phone or email, processing the enquiry or forwarding on where outside the brief of the team
Issuing sales estimates and orders through our business management system SAP B1, maintaining responsibility for those transactions through the process
Working within the business framework from enquiry to delivery, paying close attention to margins and profitability
Gathering and sharing product and market information
Attending trade events as required to represent the business
Escorting visitors around the site to facilitate sales, as directed by the line manager
Providing support to other team members in their absence to ensure that all customers consistently receive the best service possible

If this Commercial Sales Executive vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Matt Parker on 01233 732767 or matthew@horticruitment.com.

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Senior Gardener

Senior Gardener required

Job Ref T222

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Gardener to join a garden maintenance and landscaping firm in central London. The client has over 20 years’ experience in landscape design and construction of gardens in London and the Home Counties, and a team of highly skilled and motivated landscapers and gardeners who work to a high standard. Our client believes a garden should not be a static space that looks the same year after year – it should improve and grow over time, and thrive throughout the seasons, and they have the vision and skill to develop gardens to attain their full potential, and then take them beyond that.

Job Brief

With a high demand for our client’s services, a Senior Gardener is required. He / She will work with one other colleague; take full responsibility of a van and tools and lead the decision-making process on what needs doing with each gardening maintenance visit. As a Senior and professional Gardener, you will be hands-on and knowledgeable in all areas of gardening and experienced in leading a small team. The successful candidate will have a professional approach in all dealings with the client and whilst on their property. He / She will demonstrate the ability to prioritise and problem solve when required to be cost and time effective. Attention to detail is really important in all aspects of the job.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible to train and develop their team to produce the best results.

Guide and support team members to ensure that jobs are completed as per quote within the allotted timescale and with 100% customer satisfaction.
Ensuring health and safety is adhered to at all times, and a safe working practice is undertaken
Daily cleaning and inspection of equipment and ensuring that the team respect all tools, equipment and machinery including the van and treat it as their own

Candidate Skills

Applicants will have a proven record of professionally maintaining gardens to a high standard, skills must include mowing, weeding, lawn care, seasonal pruning, topiary work and hedge cutting. Good general plant knowledge on trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals and weed identification is a requirement. He / She will be good at working towards deadlines, be able to identify, plan and action short and long-term improvements to the gardens in their care, have a high attention to detail and have effective and respectful communication skills with other members of the team, the public and clients. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, physically fit and enjoy working in all weathers. A good knowledge of Health and Safety with respects to gardening and landscaping.

The ideal candidate will hold:

A full clean UK manual driving licence held for 2 years + (required).
Several years’ experience working within a similar environment
Experience using a range of machinery
Good horticultural knowledge
A good understanding of pests and diseases and their treatment

PA1/PA6a, NVQ are desirable, but not essential

Each morning, the day will start at 7:15am meeting on site in Fulham and the van will be ready for leaving the unit by 7:30am ready to begin work at 8am with a finish time of 5pm (season allowing).

The position is Monday to Friday, 45 hours per week. Overtime is available during the summer months.

If this Senior Gardener vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Niall Anderson on 01233 732767 or niall@horticruitment.com.

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