Assistant Technical Growing Manager

Our industry-leading client are currently recruiting for an Assistant Technical Manager to join their team based in the Chichester area, West Sussex. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking for a team environment with a well-established and successful wholesale Horticultural business. Our client is a market leading customer focussed organisation who supply high quality plants to the wholesale market. They have a stable team of 45 employees rising to 80 in season based across 4 nurseries in West Sussex. They are highly regarded in the Industry for their sales and marketing of plants and shrubs. In this critical role you will work alongside and under the direction of the Lead Technical Manager to deliver all aspects of technical growing to plan and deliver a quality product to our customers expectations including:- Crop agronomy walks to identify operational tasks and integrated pest management. Plant nutrition and growing media selection. Research and Development New product development Supporting with the planning and purchasing of crops. Maintaining excellent relationships with all of our young plants and growing media suppliers. The development and continual review of quality systems. Assurance scheme audit preparation. To be suitable for the role of Assistant Technical Manager you should have: Excellent communication skills A passion for horticulture / plants Excellent attention to detail and numeracy skills The ability to change pace where required to ..... full job details .....