Operations Assistant Manager
Operations Assistant Manager
Seeking an Operations Assistant Manager candidate for an immediate full-time position. Must have experience with Microsoft Office, and operations & project management. We encourage you to submit your resume if you have such experience and can demonstrate a positive, friendly, can-do work ethic, have strong organizational and communication skills, take initiative, and pay acute attention to detail.
We are Plant Delights Nursery/Juniper Level Botanic Garden, a perennial plant nursery established in Raleigh in 1986, offering unique, rare, well grown, and properly named perennials to passionate gardeners around the world. We have one of the most extensive perennial trialing programs in the country. Our concern goes far beyond selling plants! Despite being best known as a nursery, we actually exist for our work as a private 28-acre botanical garden and plant research facility focusing on ex-situ plant conservation, plant exploration, breeding, and propagation. We are a family-owned company with a mission to support research, education and the exploration of plants through the sales of unique perennial plants.
Our nursery and garden provide an opportunity to work indoors and outdoors year-round, so we have a casual dress code, a diverse staff, and a friendly working environment.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to perform the following duties effectively and efficiently:
Management responsibilities:
- Assisting and filling in for Administration Manager duties
- Customer Service and Shipping team management assistance
General operations:
- Seasonal hiring and candidate screening/interviewing
- Troubleshooting technology issues
- Backup roles in shipping, plant pulling, and nursery needs.
- Assist with marketing efforts and analytics
- Event preparation and calendar management
General office responsibilities:
- Maintain shipping and office product inventory
- Purchase and receive supplies while comparing prices of various vendors
- Responding to customer service and membership inquiries
- Sales assistance and POS management
Outside vendor contract management:
- Phone system
- Internet system
- Networking system
- Various software
- Computer hardware
- Point of sale hardware
- Various waste services
- Vending machines
- Event vendors
- Additional general business vendors
Some duties may require:
- Performing physical and dirty work in all types of weather
- Working independently or collaboratively
- Walking on uneven surfaces, bending, kneeling and carrying heavy items (up to 30 lbs.)
- Standing for long periods of time
- Assisting other departments as needed
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Driver’s license
- Experience in retail sales and customer service preferred
- Plant knowledge is helpful, but not required
Employee Classification: hourly, permanent, full-time
Compensation: Salary: $36k-40k annually based upon experience
Benefits: We offer an extensive benefits plan that includes health, dental & vision insurance, life insurance & a company matching simple IRA. We also have paid public holidays, PTO & vacation days.
Standard Business Hours: Monday - Friday 8 am - 5 pm plus 9 open nursery and garden event weekends each year
Send cover letter & resume with a detailed description of work history along with three professional references to jobs@plantdelights.com