Account Manager - Professional Gardener Job at Home Sown Gardens, LLC, Eagan, MN

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  • Home Sown Gardens, LLC
  • Eagan, MN

Job Description

Home Sown Gardens, LLC infuses the hope and faith of the future using the magic and healing power of gardens. We provide a personalized approach to maintenance, restoration and design services in the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and surrounding areas. We believe in the broader mission of delivering exceptional gardening services while providing well-being benefits to our clients, employees, community, and earth.

Terms of employment: Full-time, year-round, salaried position with reduced hours in the off-season.

Position Summary: Client and potential client relationship development, maintenance, and retainment. Performs consultations, creates estimates, design sketches and plant lists, provides project management, site visits, and ongoing communication with clients, crews, and service coordinators, as well as onsite work for projects as needed.

Responsibilities

· Client Relationships
Initial contact and establishment of potential clients
Performs consultations and estimates for potential and existing clients
Manages the garden care for existing clients
Provides personalized coaching to potential and existing clients

Design and Projects
Researches and creates design sketches and plant lists
Establishes project timelines and coordinates execution with Internal Operations
Purchases products and supplies for project fulfillment in coordination with Internal Operations
Communicates with clients, Lead Gardeners, and Service Coordinators as needed to achieve optimal garden care, project execution, and client satisfaction

· Field Work
Works with and/or supervises work done by gardening crews on projects as needed
Performs on-site field audits between maintenance visits as needed
Performs regular gardening tasks with clients during coaching sessions as needed.

· Other, as assigned
Community events
Webinars and other teaching opportunities

Knowledge and Experience
· Ideal candidates will have a Horticulture degree from an accredited college
· Ideal candidates will have a minimum of 3 years of experience, preferably as a Lead Gardener with a Landscape Maintenance or Professional Gardening company
· Ideal candidates will be MNLA Certified Landscape Professionals
· Ideal candidates will have a MDA Pesticide Applicators License or be willing to obtain
· Demonstrated soft-scape plant design ability
· Demonstrated plant care knowledge and identification proficiency
· Demonstrated weed identification and eradication methods
· Demonstrated proper pruning techniques based on design intent
· Demonstrated pest and disease knowledge, identification, and control methods
· Computer/Tablet skills; word processing, email, and internet proficiency

Personal Attributes
· Strong sense of customer service
· Excellent listening and interpersonal skills
· Attention to detail
· Outstanding organizational and time management skills
· Self-motivated and self-directed
· Exceptional work ethic, integrity, and attitude
· Clarity of thought and communication
· Ability to direct and communicate project intent, timeline, and details

Compensation/Benefits
· $26 - $30.50/hour
· 3% Retirement Match
· PTO
· Health Insurance
· Education Compensation
· Plant Discounts

Other Responsibilities
This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. Team members may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities other than those stated above.

Precautions:

The fieldwork can be physically demanding in sometimes poor weather conditions. The weather can be either extreme hot or cold, dry or raining/snowing. There is a lot of lifting, carrying, bending, kneeling, walking, and crawling. Repetitious behavior abounds with hoeing, raking, digging, and pruning. Hand/finger dexterity and strength is utilized for pruning and other hand tool work.

Hazards also include exposure to critters, insects, and soil-borne diseases.

Please know your limitations.

About Home Sown Gardens

Founded in 2005, Home Sown Gardens, LLC is a Minnesota-based company providing professional gardening services to heal the land and people. We foster a socially and environmentally responsible environment that has integrity, is inclusive, respectful, and fun. We take pride in working hard and doing the right thing. We are a for-profit company driven by a social mission to contribute to the betterment of the lives of our team members, clients, and community, and to make our little piece of the planet better.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $26.00 - $30.50 per hour

Benefits:

Employee discount
Health insurance
Paid time off
Professional development assistance
Retirement plan
Schedule:

10 hour shift
Day shift
Overtime
Weekends as needed
Year round work
Work Location: In person
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: $ 26.00 30.00 Per Hour

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Shift work, Weekend work, Day shift,

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