Gardening Department Manager
Location: Milton Keynes
Hours: 40 hours per week, alternate weekends
Salary: Dependent on experience

Are you an experienced retail manager with a background in gardening sundries and gardening equipment? If you're ready to take the reins of a busy, customer-focused department within a leading garden centre group, this could be your ideal next step.

This role suits someone with proven experience in retail leadership and product knowledge across gardening categories like compost, fertilisers, chemicals, and fencing. You'll be joining a business known for quality, strong training, and promoting talent from within.

What you'll be doing:
As Gardening Department Manager, you'll take full commercial and operational responsibility for the gardening sundries department.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and developing your team to deliver excellent service and results
• Maintaining high standards in merchandising, stock presentation, and promotional execution
• Managing stock levels, seasonal planning, and retail standard
• Delivering sales targets and KPIs through effective retail execution
• Providing expert product advice to customers and setting high service standards
• Supporting the wider management team with day-to-day centre operations

What they're looking for:

• Proven retail management experience, ideally within a garden centre or DIY environment
• Strong product knowledge of gardening sundries, composts, fertilisers, and related categories is desired but not strictly necessary
• Hands-on leadership style with confident people management skills
• Commercial awareness, able to spot trends and maximise seasonal opportunities
• A passion for delivering great service through an engaged and knowledgeable team

Perks & Benefits:

• Join a respected, well-invested garden centre with a strong reputation for developing staff
• Take on a high-impact role with genuine career progression opportunities
• Free onsite parking
• Guaranteed annual pay rise

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