Floral Designer

Pollard's Florist, the premier florist in Newport News, is looking to hire a creative Floral Designer to design, create, and sell standard and customized floral arrangements to our customers.

Pollard's Florist is a part of Family Flowers, America's largest family-owned florist with 25 locations in 10 states and still growing! Our business is founded on a customer obsessed mentality, a strong get it done attitude and entrepreneurial drive. We are in the business of delivering love into people’s lives every day and we brighten things up in the hard times too! We are always looking to grow and ways to improve our business.

We offer a highly collaborative, empowering, team-based workplace culture where all are skill sets, creativity and work ethic are highly valued.

The Floral Designer's responsibilities include advising customers on suitable floral arrangement selections, wrapping completed floral arrangements, unpacking and organizing deliveries, and ensuring that the floral shop is clean and well-organized.

To be successful as a Floral Designer, you should keep abreast of emerging styles and trends in floral design. Ultimately, an exceptional Floral Designer should be able to demonstrate excellent organizational skills and ensure that ordered floral arrangements are delivered to customers in a timely manner.
Floral Designer Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that flowers are properly watered and stored to prevent wilting.
• Selecting and arranging flowers and decorative items to create standard and customized floral arrangements.
• Serving in-store customers and processing payments.
• Maintaining an accurate record of floral arrangement orders, special requests, and delivery information.
• Advising customers on the proper care and maintenance of their selected floral arrangements.
• Consulting with clients to determine their preferences and specifications before designing customized floral arrangements.

Floral Designer Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Proven floral design experience.
• Sound knowledge of different flower types, arrangement styles, and flower conditioning.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Exceptional customer service skills.
• Artistic and creative.
• Detail-oriented.

Family Flowers provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Experience:

• Floral design: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person