Current Retail/Horticulture Vacancies

Sales Assistant (Houseplant Area) – Kilquade, Wicklow

At Arboretum Kilquade, we know that skills are learned, nurtured, and celebrated. As an award-winning, forward-thinking, and sustainability-driven family business, we’ve built a reputation for creating inspirational destinations that connect people with nature, creativity, and each other.

Our vision is to offer customers a haven of escape, where garden, home, fashion, and food come together in a truly fulfilling retail experience. Guided by our values of Communication, Commitment, Customer Service, Reputation, and Leadership, we’ve cultivated a workplace where excellence, teamwork, and care for both people and the planet go hand in hand.

Arboretum Kilquade is proud to hold multiple national awards for retail excellence and sustainability, reflecting our ongoing commitment to innovation, quality, and exceptional customer experiences.

About The Role:

We’re seeking a passionate, customer-focused Sales Assistant to join our Indoor Houseplant Team at Arboretum Kilquade.

This is a customer-facing horticultural retail role, ideal for someone who loves plants and enjoys helping customers make confident, informed choices for their homes. You’ll play an important role in maintaining high horticultural standards, delivering outstanding service, and creating an inspiring plant shopping experience.

Every day brings variety, from caring for plant stock and merchandising displays to engaging with customers and sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Customer Service Excellence: Deliver a professional, friendly, and engaging service, understanding customer needs and striving to exceed expectations at every opportunity.
• • Sales & Product Support: Proactively support sales across the houseplant area through excellent product knowledge, confident recommendations, and a warm, welcoming approach.
• • Plant Care & Presentation: Maintain the health, quality, and visual appeal of indoor plant stock through watering, feeding, tidying, and general care.
• • Product Knowledge: Stay up to date with plant care advice, seasonal trends, and new product lines to support customers with confidence.
• • Merchandising & Displays: Maintain and create eye-catching plant displays to Arboretum’s award-winning standards, ensuring POS and plant labelling are accurate and current.
• • Stock & Operations Support: Assist with goods inwards, stock rotation, wastage control, stock counts, and general day-to-day running of the department in line with company procedures.
• • Team Collaboration: Work closely with colleagues and management to ensure smooth operations and a consistently high-quality customer experience.

What You’ll Bring:

• • Qualification in Horticulture or relating field (preferred but not essential)
• • A genuine love of plants, gardening, and horticulture.
• • Strong customer service skills with the ability to build positive customer relationships.
• • Good general plant knowledge, with a desire to continue learning and developing horticultural expertise.
• • A positive, proactive attitude and a willingness to support the wider team.
• • Attention to detail and pride in presentation and standards.
• • Previous retail or horticultural experience is desirable but not essential — enthusiasm and the right attitude are key.

Why Join Arboretum?

At Arboretum, you’ll be part of a supportive, vibrant, and award-winning team where your contribution truly matters.

Day-to-Day Benefits:

• • Competitive salary based on experience
• • Staff discount and subsidised café
• • Free tea and coffee before 9am
• • Flexible schedules with daytime hours
• • Interesting, varied work in a beautiful setting

Recognition & Rewards:

• • Staff recognition and reward programmes
• • Staff Awards Night
• • Team-building events
• • Length of service rewards
• • Free breakfast and lunch incentives
• • Career progression opportunities

Be Part of a Great Team

• • A friendly, energetic, and passionate workplace culture
• • Multiple national awards across retail and hospitality
• • Employee “Refer a Friend” scheme

If you love houseplants, enjoy connecting with customers, and want to grow your career in an inspiring horticultural retail environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help us deliver the Arboretum experience, where plant passion, customer care, and creativity grow together.

Retail Sales Assistant – Parnell Street, Dublin

Are you passionate about delivering outstanding customer service and love working in a vibrant retail environment? Would you like to be part of the team at one of Ireland’s leading garden and lifestyle destinations?

Arboretum Urban Green is looking for friendly, enthusiastic people to join our store team. Our retail department offers a wide range of home, garden, and lifestyle products, and we need dedicated team members to help create memorable shopping experiences for our customers.

Your Role:
As a Sales Assistant, you will be the face of the Arboretum store, welcoming customers, providing expert product advice, and assisting with sales. You will help maintain an attractive, well-stocked, and organised retail space that reflects our high standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Greet and engage customers in a friendly, helpful manner
• • Provide knowledgeable advice about products and assist customers with their purchases
• • Operate the till and handle cash, card, and other payment methods accurately
• • Maintain attractive and well-organised product displays and stock areas
• • Assist with stock replenishment, inventory checks, and deliveries
• • Ensure the store floor is clean, tidy, and safe at all times
• • Support promotional activities and seasonal events
• • Work collaboratively with the retail team to meet sales targets and deliver excellent customer service

What We’re Looking For:

• • Previous retail or customer service experience is preferred but not essential
• • To achieve and seek to exceed personal sales targets across targeted product areas.
• • A positive, approachable attitude with excellent communication skills
• • Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• • Attention to detail and pride in presentation
• • Willingness to learn about our product range and share your knowledge with customers
• • Flexibility to work weekdays, weekends, and public holidays as required
• • Working hours will vary depending on business needs.

Why Work With Us?

• • Join a welcoming and supportive team in a beautiful, award-winning environment
• • Enjoy staff discounts across the store, café, and garden centre
• • Opportunities for training and career growth within Arboretum
• • Daytime Working Hours.
• • Employee Referral Bonus Scheme.
• • Employee Recognition Awards

If you are customer-focused, reliable, and enthusiastic about retail, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today and be part of the Arboretum Urban Green retail experience!

Landscape Gardener – Kilquade, Wicklow

At Arboretum, we know that skills are learned, nurtured, and celebrated. As an award-winning, forward-thinking, and sustainability-driven family business, we’ve built a reputation for creating inspirational destinations that connect people with nature, creativity, and each other.

Our vision is to offer customers a haven of escape — where garden, home, and food come together in a truly fulfilling retail and horticultural experience. Guided by our values of Communication, Commitment, Customer Service, Reputation, and Leadership, we’ve cultivated a workplace where excellence, teamwork, and care for both people and the planet go hand in hand.

We are currently recruiting for a Landscape Gardener to join our Outdoor Gardens team at Arboretum Kilquade – The National Garden Exhibition Centre.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Maintain and enhance the outdoor gardens, landscaped areas, and exhibition spaces to Arboretum’s award-winning standards.
• • Carry out all aspects of horticultural maintenance including planting, pruning, weeding, mulching, lawn care, and plant health monitoring.
• • Assist with the creation and implementation of planting schemes, seasonal displays, and landscape features.
• • Ensure gardens and pathways are clean, safe, and welcoming for visitors at all times.
• • Support irrigation management, soil improvement, and pest/disease control in line with sustainable practices.
• • Work closely with the wider horticultural team to deliver high-quality garden presentation and visitor experiences.
• • Provide a friendly, helpful presence for customers exploring the gardens, responding to enquiries where appropriate.
• • Assist with maintenance tasks, project work, and the day-to-day running of the gardens and exhibition centre.

The Ideal Candidate:

• • Has a genuine love of gardening and strong practical horticultural skills.
• • Possesses previous experience in gardening, landscaping, groundskeeping, or a similar outdoor role.
• • Holds a horticultural qualification or is working towards one (desirable but not essential for the right candidate).
• • Enjoys working outdoors year-round and is physically capable of performing hands-on gardening tasks.
• • Is enthusiastic, reliable, and able to work both independently and as part of a motivated horticultural team.
• • Shows a willingness to learn and develop horticultural knowledge in line with Arboretum’s high standards.
• • Has good communication skills and a customer-friendly approach when interacting with visitors.

Why Work With Us?

• • A friendly, supportive working environment.
• • Opportunities for professional learning and development in a nationally recognised garden centre.
• • Staff discounts across Arboretum retail and café.
• • Daytime working hours.
• • Employee referral scheme.
• • The chance to work in one of Ireland’s most inspiring horticultural settings, contributing to beautiful gardens enjoyed by thousands of visitors.

If you’re passionate about gardening, enjoy working outdoors, and want to be part of a dynamic and creative horticultural team, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and become part of the Arboretum experience!

Retail Sales Assistant (Full-Time) – Kilquade, Wicklow

Are you passionate about delivering outstanding customer service and love working in a vibrant retail environment? Would you like to be part of the team at one of Ireland’s leading garden and lifestyle destinations?

Arboretum Kilquade is looking for friendly, enthusiastic people to join our store team. Our retail department offers a wide range of home, garden, and lifestyle products, and we need dedicated team members to help create memorable shopping experiences for our customers.

Your Role

As a Sales Assistant, you will be the face of the Arboretum store, welcoming customers, providing expert product advice, and assisting with sales. You will help maintain an attractive, well-stocked, and organised retail space that reflects our high standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Greet and engage customers in a friendly, helpful manner.
• • Provide knowledgeable advice about products and assist customers with their purchases.
• • Operate the till and handle cash, card, and other payment methods accurately.
• • Maintain attractive and well-organised product displays and stock areas.
• • Assist with stock replenishment, inventory checks, and deliveries.
• • Ensure the store floor is clean, tidy, and safe at all times.
• • Support promotional activities and seasonal events.
• • Work collaboratively with the retail team to meet sales targets and deliver excellent customer service.

What We’re Looking For:

• • Previous retail or customer service experience is preferred but not essential.
• • To achieve and seek to exceed personal sales targets across targeted product areas.
• • A positive, approachable attitude with excellent communication skills.
• • Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• • Attention to detail and pride in presentation.
• • Willingness to learn about our product range and share your knowledge with customers.
• • Flexibility to work weekdays, weekends, and public holidays as required.

Why Work With Us?

• • Join a welcoming and supportive team in a beautiful, award-winning environment.
• • Enjoy staff discounts across the store, café, and garden centre.
• • Opportunities for training and career growth within Arboretum.
• • Daytime Working Hours.
• • Employee Referral Scheme.

Why This Role Stands Out

If you are customer-focused, reliable, and enthusiastic about retail, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today and be part of the Arboretum Kilquade retail experience.