Description

What’s the role about?

You’ll be working as part of a dedicated and passionate team highlighting the Nursery department and its position within the wider JLP horticulture business through driving sales, offering great customer service and delivering profit. You will also have the opportunity to develop and stretch personally and professionally to achieve your potential.

What you’ll be doing as a Nursery Specialist

• Retail Nursery operation

• Working with the Nursery and Landscaping teams

• Sourcing and purchasing of appropriate stock for Nursery & Garden shop as required

• Compliance with procedures and standards

• Customer Service

• Stock, inventory and waste management 

• Goods Inwards, merchandising and display of all stock

• Customer deliveries

• Maintaining nursery planting

• Health and safety management of nursery car park, access roads and access paths

Why will you love working at Leckford Estate?

Leckford is a 4,000-acre estate near Stockbridge, Hampshire. The estate was purchased in 1929 by John Spedan Lewis, founder of the John Lewis Partnership, and we have been farming it now for nearly 90 years.

We are the Waitrose Farm and our produce is supplied to Waitrose stores across the country. The estate is diverse and our commercial businesses span property, food production, farming, retail and leisure activities.

We care passionately about British farming and the environment and we practice 'The Waitrose Way' of healthy living, fair treatment, treading lightly on the environment and championing British produce.

Take a look at our interactive video to learn more about the Leckford Estate.

Click here for the video

What you’ll have

• Certificate in Horticulture or equivalent

• Proven horticultural experience 

• Retail and garden shop  experience 

• Excellent Customer Service skills 

• To be thorough and pay attention to detail

• Ability to work in a team

• Ability to work well with your hands

• To be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer or hand-held device

• Knowledge/interest in plants & horticulture

Additional Information:

Right to Work

At an interview, you will need to provide Right to Work documentation showing you have the right to work in the UK, for a full list please, visit: https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work 

For candidates who are not a citizen from the United Kingdom, you will need to provide your Share Code obtained from the Home Office before your interview along with your original proof of DOB, such as a passport, a birth certificate or a Driver's License.

Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position

Hours

We have a number of different ways to work flexibly so at your interview feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you. There are no guarantees, however, it may open the door to not only a new role but a new way of working.

As a Partner, you will enjoy our unique benefits package, including staff discount, subsidised food in Partner dining rooms, discounts in local restaurants, subsidised learning, access to exclusive Partnership hotels and so much more.

Please consider the following when making your application:

- We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early.

- Print off the job description now if you require it.

- Ensure you have an up-to-date CV.