Calling all Landscape Designers/Plant Nerds...

Did your love of plants get you into Landscape Design and now you find yourself stuck at a computer, picking from the same four kinds of pavers, quoting the same retaining wall projects over and over? Want to get back to the thing you loved in the first place? Ditch the CAD and pick up your colored pencils, it's time for hand-drawn design and getting your gloves back in the soil again! This position brings together skills of selling, estimating, design, client relations, and running your own installations (with no hardscape!), all alongside some other pretty cool nerdy plant people.

Home Sown Gardens, LLC is a Twin Cities-based company providing professional gardening services to restore the garden and soul.

Position Title: Account Manager

Terms of employment: Full-time, year-round, salaried position

Position Summary: Client and potential client relationship development, maintenance, and retainment. Performs consultations, creates estimates, design sketches and plant lists, provides project management, site visits, and ongoing communication with clients, crews, and service coordinators, as well as onsite work for projects as needed.

Responsibilities

· Client Relationships

• Initial contact and establishment of potential clients
• Performs consultations and estimates for potential and existing clients
• Manages the garden care for existing clients
• Provides personalized coaching to potential and existing clients
• Researches and creates design sketches and plant lists
• Project Installation oversight
• Establishes project timelines and coordinates execution with Internal Operations
• Purchases products and supplies for project fulfillment in coordination with Internal Operations
• Communicates with clients, Lead Gardeners, and Service Coordinators as needed to achieve optimal garden care, project execution, and client satisfaction

· Field Work

• Works with and/or supervises work done by gardening crews on projects as needed
• Performs on-site field audits between maintenance visits as needed
• Performs regular gardening tasks with clients during coaching sessions as needed.

· Other, as assigned

• Community events
• Webinars and other teaching opportunities

Knowledge and Experience

· Ideal candidates will have a Horticulture degree from an accredited college

· Ideal candidates will have a minimum of 3 years of experience, preferably as a Lead Gardener with a Landscape Maintenance or Professional Gardening company

· Ideal candidates will be MNLA Certified Landscape Professionals

· Ideal candidates will have a MDA Pesticide Applicators License or be willing to obtain

· Demonstrated soft-scape plant design ability

· Demonstrated plant care knowledge and identification proficiency

· Demonstrated weed identification and eradication methods

· Demonstrated proper pruning techniques based on design intent

· Demonstrated pest and disease knowledge, identification, and control methods

· Computer/Tablet skills; word processing, email, and internet proficiency

Personal Attributes

· Strong sense of customer service

· Excellent listening and interpersonal skills

· Attention to detail

· Outstanding organizational and time management skills

· Self-motivated and self-directed

· Exceptional work ethic, integrity, and attitude

· Clarity of thought and communication

· Ability to direct and communicate project intent, timeline, and details

Compensation/Benefits

· $26 - $30.50/hour

· 3% Retirement Match

· PTO

· Health Insurance

· Education Compensation

· Plant Discounts

Other Responsibilities

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. Team members may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities other than those stated above.

Precautions:

The fieldwork can be physically demanding in sometimes poor weather conditions. The weather can be either extreme hot or cold, dry or raining/snowing. There is a lot of lifting, carrying, bending, kneeling, walking, and crawling. Repetitious behavior abounds with hoeing, raking, digging, and pruning. Hand/finger dexterity and strength is utilized for pruning and other hand tool work.

Hazards also include exposure to critters, insects, and soil-borne diseases.

Please know your limitations.

About Home Sown Gardens

Home Sown Gardens, LLC infuses the hope and faith of the future using the magic and healing power of gardens. We provide a personalized approach to maintenance, restoration and design services in the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and surrounding areas. We believe in the broader mission of delivering exceptional gardening services while providing well-being benefits to our clients, employees, community, and earth.

Founded in 2005, we foster a socially and environmentally responsible environment that has integrity, is inclusive, respectful, and fun. We take pride in working hard and doing the right thing. We are a for-profit company driven by a social mission to contribute to the betterment of the lives of our team members, clients, and community, and to make our little piece of the planet better.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $26.00 - $30.50 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• Day shift
• Overtime
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person