Job Title: Landscape Garden Designer/Sales & Project Manager
Location: Southampton, Hampshire SO32 2DA
Salary: £25,000 – £30,000 per annum, plus potential £7,500 Bonus Reward
Job type: Full Time Permanent
With over 50 years of experience and thousands of delighted customers, Hambrooks is highly regarded for its professional service and quality workmanship in garden design, construction and maintenance. Based in Curdridge, Southampton the company’s services cover the whole of Hampshire and into the surrounding counties.
The Role:
We are looking for experienced Landscapers ideally with a 7.5ton Driving Licence to run teams of 2- and 3-men building gardens of all shapes and sizes. This is all with the aim of providing our clients with a high level of satisfaction. You would enjoy problem solving and the challenge of using a variety of different landscape materials and machinery to create gardens from designs.
Key duties:
Estimating, Design & Sales – To convert enquiry leads into live projects by:
- Understanding the client’s requirements
- Providing clients with solutions for their gardens and presenting these ideas through detailed drawings or computer aided design
- Providing the clients with competitive quotes, whilst maintaining profit margin
- Selling our products and services
- Achieving sales budgets and profits Project Management
- Managing staff on site, overseeing workmanship
- Providing clear instructions
- Managing health & Safety and risk assessments
- Following company procedures
- Liaising with Clients, Suppliers and colleagues
The candidate:
We are looking for candidates with sales experience who have a strong interest and passion for Gardening & Design. You would get to work within an experienced Designer Team, providing potential clients with reliable and workable solutions for their garden projects.
About you:
- Experience in sales – confidence in presenting ideas to clients
- Experience of working as a Designer and/or have a design qualification
- It is essential that you are computer literate and ideally have experience using CAD, KeySCAPE or sketchup
- Horticulture knowledge and/or a qualification
- Good interpersonal skills
- Time management skills
- Project Management experience
- Meet deadlines
- Positive and friendly “can do attitude”
- Flexible
- Problem solving
Benefits:
- 52 weeks work a year
- 20 Days holiday a year plus 8 Bank holidays
- Tools & Machinery
- Personal development plan
- Training & development opportunities
- Transport
Candidates with the relevant experience or job title of:
Garden Design, Project Manager, Garden Project Management, Landscaping Solutions Designer, Landscape Garden, Garden Sales Designer, Garden Designer, Graduate, Landscape Gardener, Gardener may also be considered for this role.
Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa’s at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK.
