A garden center associate plays a crucial role in maintaining a positive customer experience and ensuring the smooth operation of a garden center or nursery. Along with maintaining plants, organizing merchandise, serving customers and monitoring the sales floor for security.

• Customer Assistance and Engagement:
• Assisting Customers: Garden associates serve as a helpful resource for customers. They aid customers with a wide range of inquiries, from choosing garden decor to selecting the right tree and shrub.
• Greeting Customers: When customers arrive, garden associates greet them warmly and address any questions they may have. Excellent customer service and engagement are essential.
• Product Knowledge: Associates continually update their knowledge about the products, plants and services offered by the garden center. They provide accurate information to customers.

Operational Tasks:

• Cash Registers: Garden associates operate cash registers, manage financial transactions, and balance drawers.
• Merchandise Presentation: Associates maintain a neat and orderly appearance throughout the sales floor, ensuring that products and displays are well-presented.
• Promotions and Upselling: They introduce opportunities and promotions to customers, cross-selling products to increase overall purchase amounts. Make recommendations to customers on new items, substitutions and other specials.
• Environmental Maintenance: Garden associates contribute to the overall beauty and cleanliness of the garden center environment. Including pulling weeds, fertilizing and pruning.
• Plant Maintenance: such as watering plants and becoming familiar with and examining products to maintain plant health.
• Answering phones and handle calls in a timely and professional manner.

Preferred skills:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Plant knowledge is a plus, but not required.
• Ability to operate store equipment (e.g., phones, cash registers, garden hoses).
• Attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Customer-focused mindset.
• Must be able to lift up to 50lbs.

Whether you’re helping customers choose the perfect plants or maintaining a beautiful garden center, the role of a garden center associate is vital in creating a positive shopping experience for all garden enthusiasts!

We are looking for employees with a willingness to learn. ability to work independently and in a team environment.

Full-Time and Part-Time positions are available. Must be able to work a minimum of 3 days a week. This is a seasonal job but, has the potential to become a year round position.

Wage is dependent upon experience.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Seasonal

Expected hours: No less than 20 per week

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Opportunities for advancement
• Store discount

Schedule:

• 4 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Weekends as needed

Ability to Relocate:

• Mandan, ND 58554: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person