Section Manager

Love flowers? Love leading a team? Ready to step into something fresh?

Join our fast-growing, seasonal flower business as a Section Manager and play a key role in bringing our stunning tulips to life.

At the heart of our operation, you’ll lead a team of operatives harvesting top-quality tulips and other blooms using innovative technology – all while creating a positive, safety-first working culture. It’s a hands-on role in a fast-paced environment where your ideas, leadership and energy really matter.

Core Responsibilities :

• Operating of key machinery (Bench System/Furora) to ensure harvesting process is completed in the most efficient, safe and productive manner.
• Proactively dealing with challenges and issues as they arise (inc. health and safety, quality and HR).
• Monitoring the performance of the operation on a regular basis – ensuring appropriate action is taken if progress is behind plan.
• Responsible for correct and efficient harvesting of flowers within the operation and checking accuracy of staff in cropping to instructed specification.
• Appropriate escalation of issues relating to pest control and disease.
• Ensure the team clearly understand the quality standards required by customers (as outlined in Quality guidelines) and that corrective action including training is provided by standard fall below requirements.
• Ensure that the team operate to appropriate levels of health and safety and systems of work and provide coaching and training where standards fall short of expectations.
• Maintain high levels of housekeeping at all times.
• Undertake other duties as required, including to cover annual leave, which may include operating Forklift and undertaking tasks associated with growing and efficient running of the glasshouse/other production areas.

What you can already do :

• Driven and proactive
• Teamwork
• Consistency & reliability - lead by example, being there for your team and business
• Decision Making

The British flower market is worth £1.2bn and MM Flowers supplies fresh cut flowers and bouquets to the U.K.’s and Europe’s leading flower retailers. We grow and source the highest quality and most beautiful blooms across the world, delivering colour, passion, and inspiration through breath-taking blooms.

Established in 2007, MM Flowers has grown exponentially every year and is based in a purpose built, state-of-the-art facility in Alconbury, Huntingdon. MM Flowers employs over 900 people who are dedicated to delivering exceptional quality and service to our customers.

To continue our tremendous growth, we need the brilliant people to help us achieve our goals. We aim to deliver excellence at every point in the supply chain from distribution to processing, technical standards through to marketing, with consideration for our people and the planet at the heart of everything we do.

If this sounds like a company that you would like to be a part of, and you have the talent, energy, and drive to be a part of shaping our journey, we would love to hear from you.

So, what’s the package? When you work at MM Flowers you get more than just a salary.

• Holiday allowances are calculated on the days worked and you can find your allowance in your offer letter.
• Pension Scheme - You will be auto-enrolled onto the company pension scheme after 3 months. At present we operate an auto enrolment scheme where you will benefit from contributions from us.
• Onsite Parking – free parking is available onsite.
• Recommend a Friend Scheme – £250 is payable to you when you recommend a friend who is successful through the application process and successfully completes their 3-month probationary period.
• Career Progression – we actively encourage employees from within the business to consider roles which become available and whether that be within their field or want to consider a cross functional move.
• Wonderful working environment– we are all working in a modern contemporary purpose-built State of the Art facility.
• We are committed to an open ethical and fair working environment and have a Whistleblowing Policy in place to ensure complaints and concerns are handled appropriately.
• We work with an Occupational Health provider to support employees both…