Retail Manager (Horticulture)
Dobbies Garden Centres
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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 Wagestream - 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
- Free on-site parking
- Generous group pension scheme
- Flexible shifts throughout the week
- Overseeing the horticulture department operation, maximising profitable sales and growth while creating a unique customer focussed environment.
- Providing expert advice and guidance in relation to plant care and maintenance, core gardening products & equipment.
- Taking the lead in creating a great place to work for everyone on a day to day basis whilst thinking ahead to ensure your team have a development journey with Dobbies.
- Sparking your team's passion for delivering the best customer experience possible by creating a brilliant customer journey.
- Working closely with our central support teams, maintaining top notch communication, stock supply and response.
- Ensuring department compliance and health and safety regulations are carried out, whilst caring for employee and customers welfare at all times
- You'll bring proven experience of retail management and a passion for horticulture.
- Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving retail sales and improved ways of working.
- Ability to identify training needs within your team. You'll be effectively coaching and training all levels ensuring our teams are delivering a first-class customer experience.
- Adaptability. You'll act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and concepts.
- Positivity 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.