Garden Centre Manager (Kent) Salary: £30,000 - £32,000
Garden Centre Manager | Kent (ref:DS9089)
Location: Kent Salary: £30,000 - £32,000 Date: 15 Feb Job Type: Full-Time Duration: Permanent
This innovative and friendly family run garden centre are part of a small Kent based group who pride themselves in the great customer service that their loyal staff provide to their customers. They are now seeking a well organised leader with a can-do attitude to head up their garden centre team and inspire them to take the centre to the next level. A full job description is available but in a nutshell:
Job Purpose:
To manage the running of the centre enabling everyone to inspire, educate & equip customers.
Constantly find ways of improving the centre & motivating your staff to achieve agreed company targets & objectives.
To drive performance maximising commercial potential.
To promote staff ownership & accountability to create a positive & enjoyable working environment.
To ensure your centre runs within budget and achieves agreed targets.
To ensure that the centre operates within current Health & Safety legislation.
To contribute to the success of the Group as a whole.
They are seeking:
Ideally someone who has worked within the horticultural retail trade and understands the seasonal challenges that a business like this can face and can plan and organise staff and goods to respond to this.
Great communication skills, a motivating and inspiring leader who can instil confidence in staff and get them to perform at their best.
Someone who is a planner and can look ahead to insure that stock is available when needed, displays are always topical and can respond to the challenges of every season.
A superb people person who has a passion for Garden Centres.
In addition to salary the other benefits offered for the role are:
Enrolment into company pension scheme within 3 months, 5% employer & employee contributions.
Private Healthcare after 12 months premium paid by employer.
Non - contributory health scheme after 12 months to cover osteopathy, dental, optical, access to consultants, and many more. Premium paid by employer, invoice settled by employee and subsequently reclaimed from insurance.
28 days holiday inclusive of 8 statutory days
Employee discount after six months (20% garden centre, 50% café)
