Position available:
Sales Associate: Selling to retail and wholesale customers
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Working with our wholesale and retail customers to provide them with the proper plant material. Selling includes walking the nursery to locate plants, helping to load customers’ vehicles, and finalizing sales. The ability to utilize the program for pricing and sizing information. Associates will also perform other tasks including but not limited to consolidating, spacing, tying plants, and fulfilling orders as needed.
General Qualifications:
- Valid driver’s license
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to read and locate plant material in the yard
- Physical abilities include working in weather conditions such as the heat, cold, and rain. Walking, bending, and kneeling for extended periods of time. Ability to lift and unload plant materials up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to manage high stress and fast paced environment
- Required to be clean and neat to have a professional appearance
- Work independently on assigned nursery tasks
- Proactively identify work that needs to be done and following through to completion
- Ability to work respectively as a team with co-workers
- Timely and dependable attendance
- Energetic, friendly, self-motivated
- Day time and weekend availability
Specific Qualifications:
- 2-5 years in the nursery/ landscape industry
- Retail and/ or wholesale experience
- Plant, pest, disease identification
Wage:
To be discussed and based on experience and qualifications
Benefits:
- BlueCross BlueShield Health Care
- After 1 year: 1 week paid vacation