Floral Designer- Mass Market

Quik’s Farm Ltd. is a wholesale cut flower grower based in Chilliwack, BC, with over 20 acres of indoor and an additional 20 acres of seasonal outdoor growing space. Quik’s Farm is geared towards the intense production of cut Chrysanthemums, Oriental Lilies, Alstroemeria, and other seasonal crops utilizing state-of-the-art growing systems and leading-edge technology to produce high quality products for our diverse customer base throughout Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest USA.

This position offers you an opportunity to be part of a dynamic, fun-loving, and growing team! We are looking for a motivated Floral Designer attached to our Mass Market sales team to create trendsetting, highly marketable floral designs destined for grocery stores across the country. You will utilize your effective use of color and floral design to pre-plan attractive recipes to fulfill customer orders.

As a highly creative individual, you will photograph your creations and put together stunning sales presentations.

To ensure success as a Floral Designer, you should possess a creative talent, a keen interest in highly qualitative floral products, and a great team-player attitude. As an outstanding team member, you will be someone whose keen attention to detail directly contributes to first class customer experience with Quik’s Farm products. This position reports to the Lead of Creative.

Duties & Responsibilities

Create bouquet recipes and frameworks for individual mass market accounts based on sales forecasts and product availability expectations

Develop new product line ups and color palettes according to current floral design trends

Support the Lead of Creative in collaborating with Purchasing to source appropriate fresh and hard goods that fit design trends, providing input on account-level needs

Support the Lead of Creative in collaborating with the Sales team on new initiatives, customer requirements, and specific promotional requests

Photograph floral creations and document recipes in alignment with required input costs

Stay updated with ongoing sales efforts, trends, and customer activity

Provide feedback to Sales and Marketing departments to effectively market floral products

Visit customer locations to follow up on retail level execution and report findings

Sit in on customer meetings to get key design feedback where required

Generate progress reports for internal and external customers

After each major event or holiday, capture and document key feedback on product and design performance, ranking of available products, colour performance, supply/availability notes and share a structure summary with the Lead of Creative and Products & Program Manager.

Serve as a design point of reference for Quality Control on questions involving colour combinations and design intent (TBD on this piece).

Performs other duties as required

Qualifications & Requirements

Completion of Grade 12. Post secondary business admin certificate or degree will be considered an asset. Recognized floral design diploma or relative experience will be strongly considered a key asset.

Must have a minimum of 2 years experience in a design or sales role. Experience in a cut floral company or further understanding of the floral business will be strongly considered a key asset.

Comprehensive understanding of floral design and color use trends

Creative, high level of innovation, open imagination, trend and design focused

Must have the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Excellent customer service, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills

Excellent negotiation, planning, delegation, and organizational skills

Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed

Proficiency in office software, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Above all, we are looking for an individual who works hard, displays a high level of passion, and genuinely cares about their job, their co-workers, and our customers.

Language:
Must be fluent in English language.

Salary Range: $27- 32 per hour

This position may require you to work on Saturdays and Statutory holidays. There will be no Sunday work.

Thank you for the time and effort that you put into your application. Applicants who are shortlisted for this position will be contacted soon.

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