(NEX LITTLE CREEK) - SALES TECHNICIAN - LAWN & GARDEN

Navy Exchange
Virginia Beach, VA
Category Sales
Job Description
Responsible for ordering, maintaining, and selling live goods and other garden items, merchandising, providing technical guidance to patrons and staff customer service.

Requirements

  • Provides technical guidance and instructions to customers in the selection placing planting and follow-up care of live goods.
  • Conducts seminars and how to clinics on planting and maintaining live goods, lawn installation and maintenance, pond building, landscaping and other yard projects.
  • Conducts regular technical and product knowledge training for staff.
  • Responsible for ensuring sales associates are properly trained in all areas especially care of live goods and use of chemicals organic etc.
  • Responsible for in stock position.
  • Ensures timely and seasonal deliveries of live goods, organics, seeds, chemicals, and building materials.
  • Works directly with vendors.
  • Ensures levels are appropriate to sales velocity.
  • Anticipates seasonality of merchandise and responds with proper merchandise in the proper levels.
  • Ensures all goods are properly merchandised and signed.
  • Trains staff.
  • Schedules deliveries of nursery stock and bulk items, assists and directs offloading.
  • Ensures inventory is properly maintained.
  • Designs landscapes for customers.
  • Ensures garden center is appropriately staffed at all times.
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