British Garden Centres
Garden Centre Horticultural Manager
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Job Location:
Brockworth Garden Centre, Shurdington Rd, Brockworth, Gloucester GL3 4PU, UK
Location: Brockworth
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Hours: 39 Hours Per Week Including Weekends
About Us
British Garden Centres is the UK’s largest family-owned garden centre group, with 80 centres nationwide. Founded by the Stubbs family, the business has grown rapidly through significant expansion and acquisitions, evolving from its first site at Woodthorpe Garden Centre into a national brand.
The group now includes garden centres, restaurants, nurseries and distribution centres, employing more than 3,500 colleagues across the UK. Despite its scale, British Garden Centres maintains strong family values, a community focus, and a commitment to providing a welcoming and supportive environment for both customers and employees.
At British Garden Centres, not only do we aim to deliver a great experience in our Centres, but we go above and beyond in creating an exceptional customer service experience too.
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As a Plant Department Manager, you will manage, lead, inspire and develop an amazing team and ensuring all customers have a great in store experience.
What We Offer
Benefits include onsite parking and staff discount 20% at our Garden Centres and 50% Restaurants, and our Leisure Park.
Skills Required
- You’ll bring horticulture expertise with proven experience of retail management.
- Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving retail sales and improved ways of working.
- Ability to identify training needs. Be effective coaching and training all levels ensuring our teams are delivering a first-class customer experience.
- Adaptability act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload, and concepts.
- Positivity managing change, you will lead the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the best.
Duties Will Include
- Overseeing the horticulture department operation, maximising profitable sales and growth while creating a unique customer focussed environment.
- Providing expert advice and guidance in relation to plant care and maintenance, core gardening products & equipment.
- Taking the lead in creating a great place to work for everyone on a day to day basis whilst thinking ahead to ensure your team have a development journey with us.
- Sparking your team’s passion for delivering the best customer experience possible by creating a brilliant customer journey.
- Working closely with our central support teams, maintaining top notch communication, stock supply and response.
- Ensuring department compliance and health and safety regulations are carried out.
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How To Apply
Please send your CV to: Ruth Bird, Centre Manager rbird@britishgardencentres.com
Applications close – Friday 25th September 2026
Due to the high volume of applications, we will only contact you if your application is successful.
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