Garden Aftercare Manager

Garden Club London Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading garden design company in Greater London seeks an experienced Garden Aftercare Manager. This role involves overseeing a maintenance team, ensuring high-quality finishes, and managing client relations. Candidates should have over three years of horticulture experience and excellent knowledge of plant care. Strong communication skills and the ability to handle administrative tasks are essential. This position offers significant growth opportunities within the company.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in horticulture.
• Excellent knowledge of plant maintenance and pest control.
• Ability to design basic planting principles.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the maintenance team for gardens built and planted.
• Train and set standards with horticulturists.
• Manage client meetings and office tasks.

Skills

Horticulture experience

Plant establishment knowledge

Strong communication

Organizational skills

Knowledge of RAMS

Education

Recognised Horticultural qualification

PA1/PA6a certificate

CSCS Card

Tools

Excel

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Garden Aftercare Manager to join our team

Working for Garden Club London

Garden Club London are a multi-award winning garden design and build company based in Clerkenwell. We are recruiting for a Garden Aftercare and Planting Manager to oversee our small maintenance team who exclusively look after the gardens that we have built and planted. This role will require some on-site working initially dividing time between working with our horticulturists to ensure high quality finishes, setting standards and training through to meeting clients and working in the office with the operations team. This is a great opportunity for a motivated and articulate individual to join our team with excellent opportunities for growth and career development.

Candidate requirements

• Right to live and work in the UK
• Previous experience 3 years+ in horticulture
• Excellent knowledge of plant establishment and maintenance including pruning and pest control.
• Confidently specify planting/basic planting design principles
• Organised and pro-active with good operational planning
• Grow the department to realise the potential and business development opportunity
• Be competent at administrative tasks including Excell, invoicing, ordering and scheduling
• Great communicator who can efficiently listen and has the ability to follow up to internal and external emails and queries
• Knowledge of producing RAMS
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Have a recognised Horticultural qualification and ideally PA1/PA6a, CSCS Card however training will be given in some areas.