Garden Centre Manager
Hours: 42.5 hours per week (includes alternate weekends)
Are you a retail manager with a green thumb and a passion for delivering a standout customer experience?
This is a great opportunity to take charge of a well-established garden centre. You'll be leading from the front - driving sales, coaching your team, and making sure everything from plant health to point-of-sale is on point. If you know your way around a garden centre and love retail done well, this could be your next step.
What you'll be doing:
* Running the show day-to-day - from customer service and merchandising to stock levels and staffing.
* Leading a team across all departments, ensuring standards stay high and sales keep growing.
* Creating eye-catching displays that are both inspiring and informative.
* Making sure the plants look their best and your team knows their stuff when it comes to product knowledge.
* Taking care of cash handling, admin tasks, and back-office responsibilities.
* Supporting the goods-in process and helping keep the centre tidy, welcoming, and well-organised.
* Working with Area Managers and passing down clear targets and goals to your team leads.
The ideal candidate:
* A strong retail background with experience in leading teams and hitting targets.
* A genuine passion for plants and horticulture - enough to lead by example.
* Someone who knows how to get the best out of people through training, coaching, and motivation.
* A confident communicator with energy and a hands-on approach.
* Commercially savvy - comfortable balancing the numbers with great customer service.
Perks & Benefits?
* A proper work-life balance - no late nights
* Staff discount across products
* Health and wellbeing support, including a cash plan
* Access to lifestyle and retail discounts
* 6 weeks of annual leave
* Free onsite parking
Interested?
Send your CV our way - we're moving quickly on this one.
For more info, contact Leo at leo@morepeople.co.uk or call 01780 480530.
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