Garden Centre Manager

We have an exciting vacancy for a senior manager to join an iconic NZ owned organization and lead our garden team. This key leadership role would take your retail career to the next level as a part of the largest group of Mitre 10 stores in Auckland

Kiwis love to garden, and we love to assist them with their gardening needs. We are looking for an experienced retail professional with green fingers and a customer-focused attitude to take on a leadership role within our garden center.

Reporting directly to the Store Manager, you will have a strong focus on engaging, motivating and leading the garden team, you will inspire Team Members to continue to provide an exceptional shopping experience for our customers while striving to meet KPI targets and deliver growth within the department.

Your gardening passion may come from time in your own backyard, or you may have undertaken horticultural training - either way you will enjoy helping our customers select the right plants, along with all the dry goods and hardware, whether its fertilizers and pest control or gardening gloves and a wheelbarrow.

Ideally you will be experienced with the sale of both green and dry garden goods, although applicants with a proven retail background and who are eager to learn will be considered.

**Our ideal applicant is likely to have the following experience, but we are open to other transferable skills**:

- Ideally 3+ years of retail management experience preferably in DIY or another high-volume environment.
- Experience in Horticulture or Green Goods and garden hardware including fertilizers, pest control.
- Replenish stock, ensuring appropriate and attractive presentation in all merchandise displays, including correct ticketing, to maximize sales potential.
- Previous leadership experience of large teams and a proven track record in engaging, motivating and developing your teams to drive sales and provide exceptional customer service.
- An innovative approach to work, you might be working in a ‘big box’, but you will be challenged to think outside the box in providing ideas to continuously improve and develop the department.
- A genuine passion for our products, customers and supporting team members to grow and develop.

**Who we are**:
As the biggest home improvement retailer, and a trade partner of choice, life at Mitre 10 is fast paced and offers huge scope.
- As a Kiwi owned business partnering with some of New Zealand’s best-known brands, we are uniquely placed to retain the special, local family feel of a small business, with the support of national networks, infrastructure, systems, and training.
- Since Riviera Hardware Holdings inception in 2009, where we started out with a small local Mitre 10 store in Warkworth, we have grown to be the largest group of stores within the Mitre 10 national network.
- We are proud to offer our customers a shopping experience like no other in New Zealand’s largest hardware retail store; Mitre 10 MEGA Albany as well as New Lynn, Warkworth, Whangaparoa and Silverdale, boast Columbus Coffee shops.
- We also have a Distribution Centre and own our own Frame and Truss Manufacturing Plant.

**Become a part of our talented team**:
Our mission at Riviera Hardware Holdings is _Destination of Choice for our Customers, Partner of Choice for our Partnerships and Employer of Choice for our Team._

We have an obsession for raising the bar on what people think a retail experience should be. More Innovative. More Sustainable. More Digital. More Fun. As part of your valuable contribution, you will be rewarded with:

- Competitive remuneration
- Ongoing professional development opportunities
- Early access to long service leave after 2 years tenure
- Empowerment to create success for you & your team
- The support and training you need to achieve your ambitions.

In return we offer a workplace environment that is positive and supportive, along with the opportunity to shape this role with your own initiative and ideas.

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