Department Supervisor

Are you an experienced retail professional with a passion for gardening, outdoor living and great customer service?

Swarkestone Nursery is looking for a Department Supervisor to support the Shop Manager and take responsibility for a number of our key garden and outdoor living departments.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys working with customers, leading a team, creating inspiring displays and making sure their departments look fantastic and perform commercially.

You will take ownership of:

Garden Furniture

Compost & Growing Media

Bagged Stone

Terracotta Pots

Plastic Pots

Wooden Planters

Water Features

As Department Supervisor, you will be responsible for the day-to-day running, presentation, stock management and sales performance of your departments.

You'll be expected to lead by example, support and motivate colleagues, and make sure our customers receive friendly, helpful and knowledgeable service.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supervising and supporting colleagues.
• Providing excellent customer service and product advice.
• Creating attractive, inspiring and commercially effective displays.
• Ensuring departments are fully stocked, clean and well presented.
• Monitoring stock levels and arranging replenishment.
• Supporting stock ordering and liaising with suppliers.
• Receiving, checking and merchandising deliveries.
• Ensuring pricing, promotional material and point-of-sale information is accurate.
• Managing seasonal changes and promotional activity.
• Helping create an enjoyable, welcoming and inspirational shopping experience.

We're looking for someone who is:

• Confident and approachable with excellent customer service skills.
• Organised and reliable, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Commercially aware and motivated by achieving sales.
• Passionate about gardening, garden products and outdoor living.
• Comfortable working in a busy, hands-on retail environment.
• Physically fit and comfortable handling heavier and bulky products.
• Confident using EPOS stock systems.

Previous garden centre, retail or supervisory experience would be an advantage. However, we're equally interested in people with the right attitude, enthusiasm and willingness to learn.

We will only consider applications in person: Please drop a CV into the garden centre and ask to speak to Eve (Shop Manager), Phil (General Manager) . Please include a covering letter stating why you would be great for the role.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• On-site parking

Work Location: In person

 

Shop Floor Assistant 

Swarkestone Nursery is an independent garden centre and plant nursery in South Derbyshire. We currently have a vacancy for a garden centre assistant, offering full-time hours (approx 42 hours per week, across 5 days: Tuesday - Saturday).

The role will require manual handling work, also driving our delivery van.

The ideal candidates would have retail and/or horticultural experience.

The role includes:

• Customer service
• Using our EPOS till system (training will be provided)
• Cash handling
• Merchandising garden sundries and giftware
• Receiving goods in
• Pricing products
• Housekeeping
• Occasional Van driving

We will only consider applications in person: Please drop a CV into the garden centre and ask to speak to Eve (Shop Manager), Phil (General Manager) . Please include a covering letter stating why you would be great for the role.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• On-site parking

Work Location: In person

 

Marketing Assistant 

Location: Swarkestone Nursery and Graden Centre
Hours: 16 hours per week (flexible working pattern may be available.  50% weekend days essential)

About the Role
We are looking for a motivated and creative Marketing Assistant to support our growing team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys a varied role and wants to gain hands-on experience across different aspects of marketing, communications, and office support.

You will assist with social media management, content creation, marketing campaigns, and  event support, while also helping with light administrative tasks within the office.

Key Responsibilities

Marketing & Content

• Assist with planning, creating, and scheduling content for social media platforms
• Support the website updates and inter-platform maintenance
• Help maintain brand consistency across all marketing channels
• Monitor social media engagement and respond to comments/messages where appropriate
• Assist with basic marketing reporting and analytics

Events & Campaigns

• Support the planning and promotion of events, campaigns, and initiatives
• Assist with event preparation, logistics, and on-the-day coordination when required

Office & Administrative Support

• Provide general administrative support to the team
• Help organise marketing assets, documents, and content libraries
• Assist with data entry and maintaining marketing databases

Skills & Experience

• Interest in marketing, communications, or digital media
• Strong written communication and attention to detail
• Comfortable using social media platforms (e.g., Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube)
• Basic design or content creation skills (Adobe, or similar tools beneficial)
• Good organisational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks
• Proactive, reliable, and willing to learn

What We Offer

• Flexible part-time hours (16 hours per week)
• Opportunity to gain experience across multiple areas of marketing
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Potential for the role to grow as the business develops
• Free staff parking

How to Apply
Please bring a CV, covering letter and examples of work ( social media post/reel, POS design, graphic design etc) into store and ask for Anna, Laura or Yasmin.