Our Mission: At Adams Fairacre Farms, we see everyday as an opportunity to share our unique shopping experience from the backyard to the kitchen table. At the heart of Adams is a friendly, knowledgeable staff, dedicated to helping you get what you need and find what you love. Family-founded and deeply rooted in the community since 1919.

General Purpose:

The purpose of the Assistant Garden Center Manager is to oversee the entire operation of the garden center while completing the daily required work involving excellent customer service, product displaying, employee issues and being aware of preparing future orders and tasks. Responsible for the operations of the garden center in the garden center manager’s absence.

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Reports to: Garden Center Manager

Job Description:

• Receive and put away deliveries; check for accuracy and match inventory to bill
• Check all invoices for your department for accuracy
• Write transfers on products shipped to other Adams stores
• Keep all areas of your department clean and organized, sales floor, counters, scanning area, warehouse, garden center entrance and equipment
• Help oversee outdoor greenhouses and coordinate team effort in the whole Garden area.
• Delegate the work to your staff and get your satisfaction from seeing that the work is completed by them
• Maintain proper levels of stock throughout the department
• Set a good example for other employees - Friendliness, Politeness, Ambition, & Courtesy.
• Assist in educating your personnel regarding products and how to handle and display properly
• Achieve basic knowledge of the product offering
• If assigned, assist in ordering for the department
• If assigned, work with marketing to develop and promote sale items
• Assist in training department team members
• When correcting an employee, terminating an employee or discussing something sensitive, always have another manager, assistant manager or Human Resources with you as a witness. If you are speaking with the opposite sex, always have a manager of the employee’s same sex as your witness
• Work closely with management on personnel issues
• Always praise all of Adams’ stores to create high company morale
• When a customer needs assistance, give the customer priority over the task at hand

Physical requirements:

• Freely access all areas of the store including selling floor, stock area, and register area.
• Operate and use all equipment necessary to run the department.
• Consistently lift and move 50 pounds
• Stand for the duration of the shift

Qualifications:

• Communicate clearly with customers, co-workers, and store management team
• Employees are our internal customers; treat them with the same courtesy and respect as our internal customers
• Must work efficiently and at a productive pace per department needs
• Must be able to work scheduled shift
• Follow all department safety policies and procedures
• Be knowledgeable about Adams product
• Be sensitive to the abilities and limitations of each employee, and compliment employees for a job well done

Disclaimer:

The above statements are intended to describe the general responsibilities of this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and/or skills required for this position. It is understood that these responsibilities are subject to the needs of the business and therefore subject to change. I understand that other responsibilities may be required. I understand and confirm that I am able to carry out the duties of this position.