Salesperson with Horticultural Education

Do you have good knowledge of gardens and plants - both indoors and outdoors, enjoy customer interactions, and are motivated by sales? Do you like to inspire, guide, and help customers succeed with their green projects? Then this could be the role for you!

At Plantagen, we want our customers to have a shopping experience and customer service beyond expectations. Our salespeople are knowledgeable, engaged, and contribute every day to making the store inspiring, well-stocked, and easy to shop in. We are now looking for a salesperson with horticultural education – a role for you who want to combine your plant knowledge with a clear sales and customer focus. The position is a special fixed-term employment of 14 hours/week starting 5/1.

About the Role

As a salesperson, you work closely with customers, providing advice in your sales and contributing to ensuring that our customers enjoy their shopping experience and choose us as their go-to destination when decorating with plants - both indoors and outdoors.

With us, customers find everything they need to cultivate life – from indoor and outdoor plants to pots, soil, tools, and inspiration. With your expertise, you help our customers make confident purchasing decisions and leave with well-filled shopping baskets and a new desire to grow.

Responsibilities

Your role includes, among other things:

• Actively working with sales and customer experience
• Advising and guiding customers on plants, gardening, and horticulture
• Ensuring an inspiring and well-maintained store environment
• Watering and caring for plants
• Cash register work
• Restocking and displaying products
• Preparing for campaigns
• Other tasks as needed in the store

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who:

• Has relevant horticultural education or equivalent practical experience
• Has good knowledge of plants, gardening, and horticulture
• Enjoys a sales and service-oriented role
• Has experience from retail and/or the service industry (preferable)
• Forklift license is a plus

Personal Attributes

You are outgoing, positive, and enjoy meeting people. You are eager to share your knowledge with both customers and colleagues and have a natural ability to build trust in customer interactions. You are solution-oriented, can prioritize in a dynamic environment, and are motivated by achieving results. For us, it is obvious that you, just like us, are driven by sales and good business.

The job requires you to be active for most of the day and may include heavy lifting, which means you need to have good physical ability.

We Offer

• A lively and inspiring work environment in our greenhouse, both outdoors and indoors
• Varied tasks in a sales-driven company
• Great colleagues and a strong team spirit
• Development and career opportunities in the largest gardening chain in the Nordics
• Working hours that vary and include evenings and weekends
• Salary according to collective agreement
• Special fixed-term employment from 5/1 - 21/6 with the possibility of extension during the holiday period

Application

In the next step of the application, you will answer a few short questions about yourself and your experience so we can get to know you better. Selection and interviews are ongoing, which means the position may be filled before the application deadline.

Welcome with your application today – we look forward to hearing from you!