Lead day-to-day operations at Blooming Junction's garden center, overseeing staff, merchandising, inventory, and customer experience. A leadership role for an experienced retail or garden center manager.

• Oversee daily operations and activities of the retail garden center
• Ensure inventory levels are appropriate and stock levels are adequate
• Monitor revenue margins, operating expenses, and budgets as required by owner
• Hire, develop, maintain, and supervise a seasonally right-sized team of professional employees
• Walk the entire store a minimum of a couple times a day, noting areas for cleanup and re-organization
• Merchandise store; create inspiring displays promoting sales; instruct others as their skills allow
• Schedule staff
• Systematize training of sales staff, emphasizing presence in sales yard selling and cleaning, maintaining and straightening
• Nurture customer relations; enhance customer engagement and service
• Develop and implement employee evaluations
• Oversight of Farm operations depending on qualifications and experience

Compensation

• Year-round salaried position; salary based on experience
• Benefits include: 401K matching, vacation, health insurance

Qualifications / Skills

• Experience with POS systems
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving ability
• Analytical ability for effective purchasing
• Management training
• Farm background is helpful

Preferred Education and Experience

• Prior experience as a manager in a retail garden center business
• Demonstrated ability to manage financial budgets
• Scheduling and managing an effective sales team
• Talent for organizing products in appealing displays for sale
• Computer and computer program proficiency (particularly POS and Excel)
• Associate or Bachelor degree in business, finance, or horticulture
• Bilingual: English / Spanish

How to Apply

Please send your resume and letter of introduction to:

email: gkdinsdale@bloomingnursery.com

Grace Dinsdale

Blooming Junction is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.

Join our sales team and share your passion for plants with our customers.

• Assist customers with their needs and help them make choices to solve problems and select plants for their projects
• Clean and maintain plants in optimal condition and keep the sales area clean and attractive
• Stock the store in an organized and categorically rational system for ease of customers
• Build displays
• Clean public areas on a rotating basis
• Water and fertilize plants

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Thorough knowledge of plants, especially hardy perennials
• Houseplant or foliage plant knowledge and expertise
• A creative eye combined with plant knowledge for suggestive (combinations) merchandising
• Experience and knowledge of pests and diseases and control measures (applicator’s license a plus)
• Purchasing experience

Position Details

• Seasonal position
• Full-time and part-time opportunities available

We are hiring for both full and part time positions. If there are limitations on when or how much you will
be available to work, or conversely, when you are not available to work, please include that in your
response.

How to Apply

Please send your resume and a letter of introduction to:

gkdinsdale@bloomingnursery.com

Grace Dinsdale

Blooming Junction is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.