Horticultural Manager

Horticultural Manager | Garden Centre | Essex

Salary: DOE

Are you an experienced Plant Area Manager/Horticultural Manager with experience in a garden centre setting?

Are you looking for a fresh challenge?

This thriving garden centre is looking for a passionate Horticultural Manager to lead a busy plant department with huge potential.

• Lead and inspire the plant team
• Deliver exceptional customer service
• Buy exciting plants
• Keep the department looking fantastic
• Drive sales, set & manage budgets, and reduce wastage
• Oversee plant husbandry-watering, quality, pests & diseases
• Ensure smooth day-to-day operations

• Strong plant knowledge (indoor & outdoor)
• Retail management experience, ideally in a garden centre
• Confident leadership and communication skills
• Great merchandising, planning & organisation
• A proactive, hands‑on, "can‑do" attitude

• Real influence in a respected, family‑run business
• True opportunity to be commercial and entrepreneurial
• Autonomy to shape the plant offering
• Supportive management team
• A role full of variety, creativity, and growth

If you're ready to bring your retail leadership skills and passion for gardening to a role where no two days are the same, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply below or reach out to Michail at  or at