Enjoy the perfect blend of lifestyle and opportunity in Central Victoria! Bendigo and Castlemaine offer vibrant communities, affordable living, stunning natural surroundings, and a thriving local culture. With easy access to Melbourne, great schools, and a relaxed pace of life — it’s the ideal place to grow your career and enjoy life outside of work.

• Permanent, Full-time Role
• Competitive Salary + Super | Offers workplace flexibility
• Challenging and rewarding leadership role in a family owned and operated business
• Ability to work weekends and public holidays as required
• Location: Castlemaine, VIC (Candidates willing to relocate from within VIC, Australia will be supported with relocation expenses).

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are seeking a capable, high performing and experienced retail Site Manager passionate about horticulture to lead our fast-paced Castlemaine Garden & Landscape team overseeing the Nursery and the Yard. The ability to lead from the front, engaging and inspiring a team of professional’s while being comfortable working hands on is important. Being an experienced Retail Manager, you’re comfortable making strategic and operational decisions, customer focused, sales-driven, create and maintain a positive team culture and a true believer of continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will collaboratively work with other Garden & Landscape Site Managers, build strong relationships with the team and cross functionally across other departments or ASQ Sites.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO

• Maintain a culture of safety first; ensuring compliance with ASQ policies and procedures (Operational and Workplace Health, Safety and Environment) and ensuring workers adhere to such policies and procedures.
• Leading a diverse team of horticulturalist, sales/nursery assistant, café baristas, yard workers and operators.
• Daily operations of the site efficiently and effectively; providing direction and collaborating with Marketing Consultant on site promotions, site maintenance and store appearance, stock control, on call for alarm company call outs/ issues, asset management and invoice approvals.
• Participating in workforce planning, identifying staffing needs, managing recruitment and induction of staff, staff rostering, performance reviews and management, training, developing and mentoring supervisors and workers.
• Monitoring and reporting on sales and purchases; negotiating with suppliers, managing and maintaining pricing database, providing direction on product lines and cost-effective solutions for the site.
• Ensure costs are kept within the budget for the site cost centre.
• Working with the team in delivering sales and KPI objectives.