Floral Department Manager
Sullivan's Marketplace Brandon
Brandon, MS
Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage. Plan, organize, and lead a retail floral department, to create quality seasonal and evergreen arrangements using design and display strategies to drive sales. Work closely with store management to communicate standards of excellence to employees. Your responsibilities also include reinforcing safety and proper flower handling practices. It is your job to design floral arrangements for a variety of occasions, price them accurately, and make sure all merchandise is stored properly and rotates based on store policy. Other duties include maintaining records of invoices, receiving, and waste control, and achieving department merchandising goals in cooperation with your manager, merchandisers, and buyers.
· Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate.
· Talking to others to convey information effectively.
· Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
· Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
· Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
· Confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery.
· Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.
· Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers.
· Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries.
· Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, utilizing knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.
· Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.
· Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.
· Wrap and price completed arrangements.
· Perform office and retail service duties such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items and receiving payment.
· Unpack stock as it comes into the shop.
· Create and change in-store and window displays, designs, and looks to enhance a shop's image.
· Inform customers about the care, maintenance, and handling of various flowers and foliage, indoor plants, and other items.
· Perform general cleaning duties in the store to ensure the shop is clean and tidy.
· Decorate or supervise the decoration of buildings, halls, churches, or other facilities for parties, weddings and other occasions.
· Getting Information
· Thinking Creatively
· Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
· Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
· Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
· Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
· Documenting/Recording Information
· Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
· Handling and Moving Objects
· Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People