Horticulture Expert

Dobbies Garden Centres is seeking a Horticulture Expert in Preston, UK, to enhance customer experience by driving sales, providing plant advice, and maintaining department standards. Responsibilities include coaching staff, offering excellent customer service, and ensuring high department standards. Ideal candidates should have customer-facing and supervisory experience, as well as a passion for plants. The role offers benefits like generous leave, employee discounts, and access to development programs.
Our Horticulture Experts 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 Horticulture Manager.

Responsibilities
• Supporting and coaching other members of staff and deputising for management in their absence
• Demonstrate effective leadership by working alongside the horti team to create a positive working environment
• Giving great customer service by helping customers with various transactions across the store
• Driving sales through customer interactions, whilst promoting the benefits of the Dobbies Club membership
• Offering a helping hand with customer queries through high-quality product knowledge including indoor and outdoor plants, machinery and core gardening
• Working with your team to ensure the department is kept to a high standard
• Some key holder responsibilities may be required

Who We Are Looking For
• You'll have a passion for delivering a great customer experience, serving everyone with a smile
• Experience within a customer facing role and a passion for plants, as well as supervisory experience
• Ability to lift heavy objects to support larger store projects
• You work well within a team, build relationships, and have fun, whilst celebrating success
• You show up to work on time, well presented and bring your can do and hard working attitude along with you
• You are eager to learn new skills and gain new experiences
• 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.

What We Offer
• 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

About Us

At Dobbies, we’re proud to have a history dating back to 1865. We were founded by James Dobbie and are the only garden centre retailer to have stores in every nation across the UK.

Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special. In our stores, we showcase this through own brand and branded products, concession partners and services. We champion garden living all-year-round.

Many of our stores feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment.

We offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together, and we have a national charity partner that both our colleagues and customers raise money for.

We’re committed to being a great place to work. We’re one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves, every day; to share their wins and celebrate success. Together, we make it work for our customers.