
We're hiring: Florist
About Us
Weetons Leeds Road is our new flagship retail and dining destination on the outskirts of Harrogate! Offering a stunning, newly created premium home & garden hall, food hall, established plant & garden centre, and a delectable restaurant and cafes.
Alongside this is our newly created in-house floristry offer which, whilst continuing to delight our retail customers, we are looking to significantly grow across various streams, a key one being floristry to compliment our private functions to include weddings etc.
The Role
As such we are looking for a highly commercial & creative, hard-working Florist with comprehensive professional experience to join our team and help build our Floristry department.
This is a hands-on role whereby candidates need to demonstrate a high level of creativity and technical competence as well as excellent customer service skills, communication, teamwork and organizational skills.
The position is based at our Leeds Road site and includes facilitating the floristry requirements of our West Park site and providing floral bouquets et al for our private wedding and celebration functions.
Principal duties and responsibilities
- Delivering against the Weetons floristry strategy
- Ordering flowers and other items to an agreed budget and margin expectation
- Conditioning and preparation of flowers.
- Creating seasonal retail designs for hand tied bouquets and arrangements to agreed margin perimeters
- Preparation of vases, materials, and equipment.
- Wreath & Other Seasonal floristry making skills.
- Experience in event and bridal floristry.
Skills and Experience
- Floristry experience across both retail, event and seasonal floristry.
- A team player and customer centric
- Comprehensive knowledge of the flower industry.
- Excellent knowledge of flower varieties and floristry techniques.
- A flexible approach to working hours, days and locations.
- Highly organised with good attention to detail.
- Highly motivated and able to work under pressure.
What we offer
- The opportunity to play an integral role in a fast growing, premium retail organisation.
- Competitive salary
- Pension
- Generous employee discount
- Free on-site parking
Location/Days of work
- Weetons Leeds Road head office
- Min 40 hours per week to include weekend work and out of hours work to support private functions (as required)
If you have the necessary skills and experience and will relish a fantastic opportunity in a fast paced and ever changing entrepreneurial retail environment, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Job Type: Permanent
Pay: From £12.50 per hour
Expected hours: No less than 40 per week
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free on-site parking
- Store discount
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Harrogate, HG3 1EW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- wedding floristry: 3 years (required)
- floristry: 5 years (required)
Work Location: In person