Senior nursery manager for the countries biggest chain of garden centres, leading a team that grows and supplies living product into all 153 garden centres in the group. Full responsibility for running two large nursery sites, a mixed cropping 4 acres production nursery in Leicestershire and 3 acres in Northumberland, including staffing, purchasing, planning and budgeting, health and safety, Human Resources, quality control, all technical aspects of producing best in business bedding and pot plants.Administers nursery stock control and admin software system across multiple sites / nurseries.Keen interest in I.T

Full control over purchasing of all live goods across multiple departments of an eight Million pounds turnover destination garden centre.Part of a team that saw a garden centre grow from circa 4m turnover to 8m in just 4 years.Woodlands was the first garden centre to win best garden centre ( garden centre association) 2 years running.

Started at the age of 13 sweeping up, decided this was the path I wanted to take and progressed to supervisor. Decided to gain a qualification and so left to complete a 3 year course a Writtle college in Essex.