Job Description:

Garden Centre Area Manager
Location: Essex
Salary: Competitive, DOE + Car Allowance

This is a key regional leadership role within a leading and rapidly growing garden centre group. The business is continuing to expand its reach and is now looking for an experienced Regional Manager to take ownership of their Essex region.

This is a hands-on multi-site role, responsible for leading a number of established garden centres with experienced management teams already in place. The focus is on driving consistency, improving performance, and supporting strong operators to deliver at an even higher level.

You'll need to be comfortable operating in a commercial environment where sites are already trading well, but where there is still clear opportunity to optimise performance and continue raising standards across the region.

A garden retail / horticultural background is desired for the role.
Multi site / Cluster Management experience is a necessity.

What you'll be doing:

• Full responsibility for performance across a multi-site region
• Leading and developing experienced Garden Centre Managers
• Driving consistent commercial performance across all sites
• Supporting trading performance, seasonal activity and category execution
• Ensuring strong operational standards across retail, plant and support functions
• Managing compliance across H&S, HR, audit and company processes
• Acting as key escalation point for operational and people issues
• Supporting recruitment, development and succession planning across the region
• Working closely with senior leadership on regional and group initiatives

What they're looking for:

• Experience in a Regional / Area role within multi-site retail (key)
• Strong garden centre or specialist retail background preferred
• Horticultural knowledge is needed to help coach and mentor existing Garden Centre Managers.
• Proven ability to manage established teams
• Strong commercial acumen with full P&L accountability
• Hands-on operator who understands both detail and strategy
• Comfortable working within a growing and evolving business structure

Why join?

• Join a highly respected garden centre group with strong growth plans
• Established, well-run sites with experienced managers already in place
• Significant autonomy across a key regional patch
• Opportunity to genuinely influence performance at scale
• Strong package including car allowance and performance-related benefits

For any further information or a confidential discussion, please contact (url removed).