Garden Center Associate

1 Year Minimum Greenhouse / Plant Nursery / Garden Center experience
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Applicants must be self driven, self directed, and self managed, Applicants must have experience in sales and sales management. This includes brick and mortar sales, experienced B2C sales. Applicants must carry a positive attitude, willingness to learn and adapt quickly in an ever changing industry.

Our 3rd generation family owned & operated plant nursery & garden center company is based in Western, North Carolina, coming off Interstate 40, take Exit 107 for Valdese, NC. We are a company that places their employees first, by steadily growing our employee infrastructure & adding more bonus & benefits for our employees. This position will include paid holidays, paid vacation time, paid time off, available overtime, and optional health insurance.

Summary: Primarily this is a full time, feet-on-the-ground sales and customer service position for plant lovers that value & respect not only our clients but our team. This position is not only hands on in the garden center, but you will need to have the ability to help create client leads and retention strategies. You will share responsibilities for presentation & management of Garden Center outdoor sales floor, exhibiting quality customer service to all patrons, with this position you will operate our POS system daily and accept all methods of payments. Advance your skills into our rapidly growing landscape design services.

• 1 Year minimum of Garden Center, Plant Nursery, Greenhouse or outdoor related experience required.

Basic Qualifications:

• Ability to sell products, adjust to objections, and close deals
• Work daily with our sales manager and president to grow the company.
• Eager to learn, willingness to work and up for a challenge.
• Knowledge & names of plants, trees, shrubs, flowers. Willing to learn cultivars.
• Possess a great level of professionalism and strong communication skills
• Experience in merchandising, understanding reporting and basic finance.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Ability to complete tasks while maintaining order
• Initiative to work at challenging personal pace without constant direct oversight
• Computer savvy to include use of smart phones/devices on a daily basis for sales, inventory, reports & time keeping.
• Social Media creation, Posts, Reels, Stories, Photos, Videos

*Willingness to grow your personal development.

Requirements:

Bring forth a positive attitude each and every day with a willingness to better the team and surroundings.

• Must be a team player.
• Reading Reports & Creating strategic advancement protocols.
• Create weekly agendas for sales staff meetings.
• Create Targets and Goals
• Saturday availability during peak seasons. (Spring and Fall)
• Opportunity to take on additional hours during peak season
• Must have a valid current drivers license & access to reliable transportation, insurable.
• Effective communication skills, example receiving and making phone calls, emails, text messages.
• Basic to advanced computer skills, Point of Sale, Spreadsheets, Documents, Newsletters.
• Candidates must be able to stand for long periods of time and be able to carry up to 40 lbs.
• Must be able to work outdoors for extended periods of time. Plant sales are outside & interact with customers
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Horticulture, Business, or a related degree = increased compensation.

Must be drug free & clean background.

Maintenance Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

Customer Service:

• Greeting customers promptly and eagerly upon entering the Garden Center.
• Servicing customers with plant material, bagged goods, etc.
• Answering customers’ questions regarding plant material, plant care, and any other relevant topics.
• Loading the customers’ vehicles

Sales & Marketing:

• Operating Point Of Sale systems
• Working with sales manager to add and subtract products to our lineup.
• Creating promotions and sales.
• Printing tags & literature when needed.
• Computer & Smart Device usage
• Assist in Social Media, Newsletter and Website marketing, E-commerce
• Assist in follow ups, emails, texts, referral & rewards program

Maintenance & Delegation of Garden Center duties:

• Delegating and Creating workflow processes and tasks.
• Restock of plant inventory daily.
• Cleaning of Garden Center on a daily to weekly basis, to include:
• Blowing sales areas for cleanliness
• Standing up plant material
• Picking up all stakes, tools, etc. that are not in use
• Taking out the trash
• Removing & dumping weed buckets
• Recycling of cardboard (weekly or when needed)
• Maintenance of bagged goods area and restocking daily.
• Maintaining a clean and professional work environment.

Maintenance of Plant Material:

• Assist with loading and unloading orders
• Responsible for managing inventory on the sales floor.
• Responsible for managing product tags to ensure fast check out processes.
• Responsible for maintenance of Rows & Displays.
• Spacing of plant material on Rows
• Straightening of plant material
• Weeding, pruning/trimming plant material as needed
• Blowing off of plant rows
• Staking and pick up trees/shrubs
• Operating Kubota RTV (side by side)
• Operating Skid Steer, training included.

Compensation:

$25 per hour. 40-46 hour work week with overtime.

This position does not have a salary cap, We want you to grow each quarter, each year. Examination periods are often.

Paid Holidays: New Years Day. July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve & Christmas Day.

Paid time off begins after 90 days, you will earn 8 hours per every 30 day period.

PTO is to be used after each Quarter earned or Cashed in. You will earn up to 12 PTO days per year.

One weeks Paid Vacation earned after 1 year of service.

2 weeks Paid Vacation earned after 5 years of service.

Christmas Bonus

Health and Dental Insurance options

Take your life and career to the next level in the green industry.

Email Resumes & 1 minute video to

Careers@settlemyrenursery.com

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $25.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 – 50 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Application Question(s):

• How long have you been in sales?
• How much plant identification do you know?
• When are you available to interview?

Work Location: In person

Salary : $25