📍Location: Kirk Hammerton, York

🕓Hours: 39 hours per week (8:00am – 4:30pm Monday to Thursday, 08:00am – 15:30pm on Friday; flexibility is required and you will be on a rota to work Saturdays)

💷 Salary: £25,804.73

Want to join our team and help green the nation? Join a business that reduces the nation’s carbon footprint with every sale.

About us

Johnsons Nurseries is a three-generation family business located in North Yorkshire, equidistant between York and Harrogate, with 100 years’ experience in growing and supplying millions of trees, shrubs, and plants to UK-wide planting schemes each year.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to work in a dynamic and rewarding environment where you can make a real difference. You’ll gain hands-on experience working with a wide variety of plants, from trees and shrubs to speciality species, all while supporting customers ranging from sole traders and small businesses to large corporate clients. With a diverse clientele that includes domestic gardens, stately homes, and new prestige developments, you’ll have the chance to contribute to projects of all sizes. You’ll also benefit from continuous personal and professional growth within a family-run business that values sustainability, offers career progression, and encourages a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere.

Your main responsibilities:

• Provide exceptional customer service, handling sales, quotes, orders, telesales, refunds, and complaints.
• Deal with incoming calls and emails promptly.
• Provide sales quotations in the agreed format to customers in a consistent and timely manner.
• Ensure a safe working environment by following health and safety regulations and reporting issues promptly.

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What we are looking for:

• Customer-focused, with excellent communication skills to liaise with a wide range of people.
• Effective organizational skills to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills, with an ability to use IT systems such as Microsoft Office.

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Why work for us?

We genuinely believe we have one of the best working environments with stunning views over the Vale of York. We currently employ a workforce of 120, rising to 150 seasonally across our three sectors: Commercial, Retail, and our onsite Trade Cash and Carry. We are proud of our low employee turnover and ability to identify, recruit and develop employees who go on to give 20, 30 or even more than 40 years’ service.

Benefits to working at Johnsons:

• Generous holiday entitlement
• Early finish on a Friday
• Food days
• Annual attendance bonus
• Onsite parking
• Employee referral scheme
• Ice lollies during the summer
• Profit share bonus
• Pension fund
• Health Shield health cash plan
• Staff events
• Trade Cash and Carry discount
• Extra mile bonus

How to apply

If you like the sound of this opportunity and are interested in becoming part of our team, please send your CV and a covering letter, clearly setting out how you meet the requirements of our job role, to recruitment@johnsonsnurseries.co.uk by Wednesday 23 April 2025.

The full list of attributes for this job role can be found in our employee specification, where we have also identified how each one will be assessed: therefore, please check this carefully to ensure that your CV and covering letter address all of the relevant attributes we have set out.

Please note: if you do not provide a covering letter to your support your application, we will be unable to take your application further.

At the moment we do not wish to receive CVs from Agencies.