Horticulture Managers

Our Horticulture Managers play an essential role in delivering customer experience across our stores - driving sales, promoting customer loyalty, providing excellent plant advice and maintaining department standards, whilst working alongside the general manager to set a standard within our flagship department. Responsibilities

• Oversee the horticulture department operations to maximise profitable sales and growth, whilst creating a unique customer focused environment
• Providing expert advice and guidance in relation to plant care, maintenance and core gardening products
• Sparking your team's passion for delivering the best in-store experience possible by creating a brilliant customer journey and experience
• Working closely with our central support teams, maintaining excellent communication to improve our business
• Ensuring all health & safety regulations are carried out across the store, whilst caring for employee and customer welfare
• As a member of the senior management team, you will also have duty manager responsibilities including key holder duties
  
  You'll bring horticultural expertise with experience of retail management
• Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales and improved ways of working
• Ability to identify training needs. You'll be effectively coaching and training all levels ensuring our teams are delivering a first-class customer experience and safe centre environment
• Adaptability. You'll act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirements
• Positively managing change, you'll lead the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the best
• Can demonstrate our values at all times - we're one team, getting better everyday. We bring a smile. We live and breathe gardens. We make it work for our customers.
  
  Generous annual leave entitlement. Use your holidays when you want with limited statutory days off required
• Treat yourself with generous uncapped discount across our stores with 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre and 10% off in our food halls
• Access to Stream - support your financial wellbeing, with ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for the future and financial advice
• Access to Retail Trust - seek confidential support, access to a virtual GP, free counselling service and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platform
• Access to Dobbies Academy - continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes
• Thriving culture; the Dobbies team are passionate, diverse and committed to making it work for our customers