Starke Ayres is the foremost African specialist and global supplier of premium vegetable, flower and lawn seed varieties – both for commercial and home garden planting.

The following position has become available for a Sales Assistant, based in Rosebank, Cape Town.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides excellent, professional customer service at all times, ensuring a positive shopping experience.


• Assists customers with purchases by advising or sourcing relevant advice from horticultural personnel.


• Loads customers trolleys with their purchase and guides them to the till points and assist the cashier with capturing the correct code/price of products.


• After payment, carefully loads purchases into the customers vehicle, ensuring that all trolleys are returned to the trolley areas as per seasonal operational requirements.


• Upsell and cross-sell to customers and informs them about promotions in order to maximise sales.


• Responsible for maintenance of a demarcated area of the Nursery in a clean and tidy condition at all times


• Maintains all plants in the demarcated area in a clean, healthy, and saleable condition.


• Brings all poor-quality plants to the attention of the Nursery Sales Supervisor / Horticulturist.


• Assists with the correct labelling of plants and packs them in their correct sales areas.


• Prepares areas for new stock.


• Ensures that sales areas are always kept neat and tidy and plants are effectively displayed.


• Assists with annual stock take.


• Maintain and upgrade display / area behind Information


• Assist with Specials

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Nursery Assistant experience for at least 1 Year


• A National Senior Certificate (NQF level 4) (essential)


• Garden Centre Plant and Product knowledge