Nursery Manager
Essex
DOE + Accommodation
Ready to lead a nursery with strong foundations already in place? Looking for a role where you can combine technical growing knowledge with leadership?
This is a rare opportunity to join an established commercial nursery and help shape its next chapter.
You'll inherit an experienced management team, a knowledgeable workforce and 15 acres of y glasshouse production.
This role is about building on what's already working well and helping the business continue to move forward.
What's on Offer?
- Competitive salary
- Accommodation available
- Opportunity to shape the future of the nursery
- Long-term career opportunity within a stable business
- Support from Directors and experienced department managers
What's the Job?
You'll take overall responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the nursery, working closely with department managers across growing, propagation, production, sales and logistics.
Day to day, you'll be:
- Leading and supporting the nursery management team
- Working with Directors to deliver business objectives
- Coordinating departments to ensure smooth nursery operations
- Reviewing performance, productivity and KPIs
- Supporting managers with resource planning and team development
- Driving continuous improvement across the nursery
- Maintaining high standards of crop quality and customer service
- Helping shape the long-term direction of the business
While this is a management role, you'll still need to understand growing and be comfortable discussing crop issues, biological controls and production challenges with the team.
What do I need?
- Strong commercial nursery experience
- Technical growing knowledge and commercial crop production experience
- Previous management or leadership experience
- Ability to lead managers and develop teams
- Good organisational and communication skills
- Commercial awareness and a practical approach
- A genuine passion for horticulture
You might already be a Nursery Manager, or perhaps you're a senior grower or growing manager ready for a bigger challenge. Either way, we'd love to hear from you.
What's Next?
For an informal chat, please call Sarah on , email , or message me on LinkedIn.
Don't worry if your CV isn't up to date - just send what you have, and we'll take it from there.
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