Garden Centre Manager
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:
1. Running the show day-to-day - from customer service and merchandising to stock levels and staffing.
2. Leading a team across all departments, ensuring standards stay high and sales keep growing.
3. Creating eye-catching displays that are both inspiring and informative.
4. Making sure the plants look their best and your team knows their stuff when it comes to product knowledge.
5. Taking care of cash handling, admin tasks, and back-office responsibilities.
6. Supporting the goods-in process and helping keep the centre tidy, welcoming, and well-organised.
7. Working with Area Managers and passing down clear targets and goals to your team leads.
The ideal candidate:
8. A strong retail background with experience in leading teams and hitting targets.
9. A genuine passion for plants and horticulture - enough to lead by example.
10. Someone who knows how to get the best out of people through training, coaching, and motivation.
11. A confident communicator with energy and a hands-on approach.
12. Commercially savvy - comfortable balancing the numbers with great customer service.
Perks & Benefits?
13. A proper work-life balance - no late nights
14. Staff discount across products
15. Health and wellbeing support, including a cash plan
16. Access to lifestyle and retail discounts
17. 6 weeks of annual leave
18. Free onsite parking
Interested?
Send your CV our way - we're moving quickly on this one.
For more info, contact Leo at or call 01780 480530.