Seasonal Plant Area Assistant – Perrywood Sudbury
5 days per week (working 4 weekdays plus alternating day at the weekend)
Seasonal from 1st October 2025 to 1st January 2026.
We are excited to open our brand-new garden centre in 2025. To support our opening, we need to recruit seasonal team members to work in our Outdoor Plant area and Bedding/ Seasonal section.
You will be working in our plant area. Assisting the team in stocking up, moving and maintaining plants and moving trolleys, helping with basic customer queries.
We are looking for motivated individuals who can follow instructions and communicate with customers. You will support our mission to offer a memorable garden centre experience, deliver wow customer service, and give employees, customers, suppliers, and the community a reason to smile.
Rewards and Benefits
In addition to the hourly wage, you will receive the following benefits:
- Discount – From the start of your employment you will receive 10% discount on specific items. Following a successful probation period, the discount increases up to 20% discount on specific items and after one year’s service up to 40% discount on specific items. (some exceptions apply) Paid holiday – holiday entitlement is 22 days per year, plus bank holidays. Restrictions apply
- Annual Christmas bonus
- Part-uniform provided
- Employee Assistant Programme - a confidential personal and professional support service available to all employees and their immediate families 24/7, 365 days a year.
- Training & development, as required. We have an e-learning scheme called GROW, and also take part in other training with product suppliers and external trainers
- Company sick pay – following a successful probation period employees are entitled to 10 days paid sickness (part-time pro rata and subject to restrictions)
- Access to our Retail Discount Scheme – savings on retailers including Tesco, Pizza Express, M&S, Waitrose, Argos, Apple, Currys PC World, Thomas Cook and 100’s more
- Workplace pension
- Free parkingKey duties
- Moving trolleys and stock from the glasshouses and stocking up plant displays
- Transferring and maintaining plants and moving promotional materials and displays
- Maintaining the cleanliness of the garden centre and stock areas, carrying out cleaning duties
- Assisting with the building of displays
- Support the current team with maintenance and stocking up of the plant areas.
Your capabilities
- Good verbal communication and customer service skills, confidence in dealing with members of the public
- Able to follow instructions from your manager and work on your own initiative
- Able to lift, bend, carry or move plants and products and be on your feet all day
- Able to push/pull several trollies across a site throughout the day and in all weathers
Requirements
- You’ll need to work four weekdays and one alternating day each weekend – Saturday one weekend, Sunday the next.
- You will be required to wear gloves when handling certain crops and sturdy footwear (Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE)
- Some Plant knowledge is desirable, but not essential
- An interest in plants and gardening
If this Seasonal Plant Area Assistant position sounds like the ideal opportunity for you, please apply directly to us. We’d love to hear from you!
For further information and a full job description, please visit the Perrywood website https://www.perrywood.co.uk/careers/
Perrywood is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please inform us as soon as you are able so that we can make the appropriate adjustments.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary
Contract length: 3 months
Pay: £7.55-£12.21 per hour
Expected hours: 39 per week
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount
Application question(s):
- Please tell us about your horticulture knowledge
- Due to our rural location and limited access to public transport your own transport is preferred
Experience:
- Customer: 1 year (required)
- Horticulture: 1 year (required)
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: 01/10/2025
