Peepul Bureau

Location: Nottinghamshire (East Midlands)

Salary: £20,000 ~ £35,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

This leading grower/plant marketer is looking for an experienced Category Analyst to strengthen it's team. You must be have experience in a similar role and you must understand category management and consumer data analysis.

An awareness of the UK's supermarket retailing dynamics is a must.

Location: Middlesex (South East)

Salary: £24,000 ~ £24,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

This is a truly exciting opportunity for an experienced horticulturalist with a marketing or sales background to drive the business forward.

• He/she will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining marketing strategies, advertising and promotional activities for the business.
• The successful applicant will be responsible for maximising sales to existing accounts and developing new business through the use of marketing strategies.
• You should be highly self-motivated, confident, outgoing, stay calm under pressure, with excellent communication skills and be able to work on you own initiative.
• Ideally we'd like to see someone with marketing experience gained within retail and/or a horticultural environment. Web development skills, PR experience and knowledge of graphic design is an advantage.

Location: Dorset (South West)

Salary: £35,000 ~ £40,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

This leading Nursery Company is looking for a Head of Horticulture who will be responsible to the Operations Director and can plan and manage a profitable horticultural department.

Responsibilities:

• To create and achieve an annual achievable budget for the entire department.
• To ensure efficient management of the production aspects of the business.
• To oversee creation and implementation of production schedules to meet sales and margin targets.
• To oversee the creation and implementation of a detailed annual sales plan to meet sales targets.
• To monitor all input costs and ensure that the most advantageous timings and pricing is achieved.
• To oversee all product costings and ensure that minimum margin targets are achieved.
• To be the company's “expert” in the field of Horticultural Production and to keep up-to-date with developments in the sector that may affect strategic development of the business.
• Maintain an awareness of market trends and report significant developments to the Operations Director.
• Identify further opportunities for expansion and growth within the horticultural department.
• To maintain a liaison with key customers to ensure that all service and quality requirements are met.
• To ensure the security of all Company property on-site.

Specific Duties:

• Continually monitor all financial and quality aspects of the horticulture department.
• Set and monitor efficiency targets for the use of all resources in the department and take corrective action where appropriate.
• Produce a monthly report for the Board of Directors outlining progress towards annual targets.
• Maintain effective communications with key staff members with the aim of achieving the annual targets.
• Routinely review Health & Safety practice to ensure that a high standard is maintained, and suggesting training needs.
• Maintain and enforce company policy in respect of all employees on site.
• Maintain effective training programme for all staff to maximise skills and product knowledge.
• To represent the Company at Industry events.
• To set objectives for key members of staff to ensure that progress to targets is met.
• To maintain an effective appraisal system to monitor staff performance.
• To ensure that the Horticultural Department meets all statutory requirements.
• Flexibility: To perform any other duties and objectives as required to contribute effectively to the achievement of the business aims and objectives.
  
  The ideal candidate will have:
• a strong horticultural background and a proven track record within the industry
• At least 3 years experience at senior management responsibility
• Horticultural production management in glasshouse crops
• Good Commercial Awareness
• Computer literacy.
• Working understanding of efficient manufacturing production processes
• Well developed communication skills written and verbal.
• Highly accurate with good attention to detail.
• Good problem solving ability.
• Good time and task management.
• Common sense.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Superb team and man-management experience

Location: England (Overseas Opportunities)

Salary: £30,000 ~ £50,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is a leading Horticultural Business who is looking for a Buyer / Category Manager who has superb purchasing experience and excellent contacts within the horticultural or fresh produce / flower sector.

-Candidates Must have a proven background in purchasing from a retail or wholesale perspective
-Excellent negotiation skills
-Applicants with both dried goods and plant experience are welcome

Location: England (Overseas Opportunities)

Salary: £25,000 ~ £30,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our Client is the manufacturer of a new 'green' soil improving product that they are keen to sell more widely within the professional Hortic and Agric market. Therefore they are looking for an experienced Sales Manager who can business develop and generate sales in new and untapped markets

The successful candidate will have a proven field sales background, superb contacts within a wide variety of sectors from amenity to agriculture and a real can-do attitude to drive business forward!

Location: Essex (East Anglia)

Salary: Dependent on experience

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Based in Essex, our client is a passionate grower/packer of fresh produce delivering substantial volumes into major supermarket customers. They are looking for an account manager to strengthen their commercial team.

The role:-
· Maintaining a strong relationship with one of their major retailer accounts
· Developing the business strategy with the senior team and then ensuring it is well implemented
· Working with the customer to maximise sales opportunities

The candidate:-
· Must have good communication and presentation skills
· Will ideally have had a experience of dealing with retailer account
· Fresh produce experience is preferred, but not essential

Location: Cambridgeshire (East Anglia)

Salary: Circa £30,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client, a well known name in the floral market, has asked us to work on an exciting, newly formed role.

The role:-
· Working with the company and their customers to develop and coordinate technical trials
· Maintain working relationships at technical level within universities and industry organisations
· Keeping up to date with technological advances that could be applicable to the organisation

The candidate:-
· Must have the ability to work independently with a high degree of initiative
· Experience in technical management is a must, ideally from a horticultural background
· Must demonstrate excellent oral and written communication/presentation skills
· Will be able to travel both domestically and internationally

Location: Cambridgeshire (East Anglia)

Salary: £50,000 ~ £60,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Based in the East Midlands, our client is looking for a senior account manager to maintain and develop a number of their foodservice and independent retailer accounts. The company is a grower/supplier of fresh produce to a number of retail channels.

The role:-
· Managing and growing a number of important foodservice and discounter accounts
· Developing new accounts and growing the business
· Managing both the customer’s and companies expectations to ensure continued successful delivery of targets

The candidate:-
· Must have strong communication skills to manage the customers and the internal team
· Must have good experience of dealing with foodservice customers, ideally in the fresh produce sector
· Must have good attention to detail
· Will ideally have had man management experience

Location: East Midlands (East Midlands)

Salary: £30,000 ~ £35,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Based in the East Midlands, our client is a progressive and forward thinking grower and supplier of fresh produce, with a proven track record of success with the major multiples. They are looking for an account manager to strengthen their customer facing team.

The role:-
· Helping to manage the companies prepared produce account to one of their major multiple accounts
· Helping to develop and deliver the business plans for the company and retailer
· Working with the prepped team to ensure the category is in a strong position and heading in the right direction
· Continuously monitoring and analysing market data to help with developing action plans

The candidate:-
· Must have strong communication and presentation skills
· Must have keen attention to detail
· Must have experience of dealing with a multiple retailer account
· Prepared produce or ready meal experience would be a bonus. If not, fresh produce is preferred
· Should be ambitious with a keen desire to develop the role and category

Location: Cambridgeshire (East Anglia)

Salary: £25,000 ~ £30,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Based in the East Midlands, our client is a long established grower and importer of fresh produce, with a strong company history. They are looking for an Account Manager to offer support and management of one of their major retailer accounts.

The role:-
· Providing support and day to day management of one of their multiple accounts
· Supporting the commercial team in delivery of budget targets
· Assisting with development of the sales strategy for the account and then ensuring it is actioned

The candidate:-
· Will ideally have had experience in fresh produce and of working with the multiples
· Must be numerate and computer literate
· Good communication skills are essential
· Good negotiation skills are a bonus