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Garden Centre Area Manager
Location: Essex
Salary: Competitive, DOE + Car Allowance
This is a key regional leadership role within a leading and rapidly growing garden centre group. The business is continuing to expand its reach and is now looking for an experienced Regional Manager to take ownership of their Essex region.
This is a hands-on multi-site role, responsible for leading a number of established garden centres with experienced management teams already in place. The focus is on driving consistency, improving performance, and supporting strong operators to deliver at an even higher level.
You'll need to be comfortable operating in a commercial environment where sites are already trading well, but where there is still clear opportunity to optimise performance and continue raising standards across the region.
A garden retail / horticultural background is desired for the role.
Multi site / Cluster Management experience is a necessity.
What you'll be doing:
Full responsibility for performance across a multi-site region
Leading and developing experienced Garden Centre Managers
Driving consistent commercial performance across all sites
Supporting trading performance, seasonal activity and category execution
Ensuring strong operational standards across retail, plant and support functions
Managing compliance across H&S, HR, audit and company processes
Acting as key escalation point for operational and people issues
Supporting recruitment, development and succession planning across the region
Working closely with senior leadership on regional and group initiatives
What they're looking for:
Experience in a Regional / Area role within multi-site retail (key)
Strong garden centre or specialist retail background preferred
Horticultural knowledge is needed to help coach and mentor existing Garden Centre Managers.
Proven ability to manage established teams
Strong commercial acumen with full P&L accountability
Hands-on operator who understands both detail and strategy
Comfortable working within a growing and evolving business structure
Why join?
Join a highly respected garden centre group with strong growth plans
Established, well-run sites with experienced managers already in place
Significant autonomy across a key regional patch
Opportunity to genuinely influence performance at scale
Strong package including car allowance and performance-related benefits
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