Company Overview
Quik's Farm Ltd. is a wholesale cut flower grower based in Chilliwack, BC, with over 20 acres of indoor and an additional 20 acres of seasonal outdoor growing space. Quik’s Farm is geared towards the intense production of cut Chrysanthemums, Oriental Lilies, Alstroemeria, and other seasonal crops utilizing state-of-the-art growing systems and leading-edge technology to produce high quality products for our diverse customer base throughout Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest USA.
This position offers you an opportunity to be part of a dynamic, fun-loving, and growing team! We are looking for a motivated Floral Designer attached to our Mass Market sales team to create trendsetting, highly marketable floral designs destined for grocery stores across the country. You will utilize your effective use of color and floral design to pre-plan attractive recipes to fulfill customer orders. As a highly creative individual, you will photograph your creations and put together stunning sales presentations.
To ensure success as a Floral Designer, you should possess a creative talent, a keen interest in highly qualitative floral products, and a great team-player attitude. As an outstanding team member, you will be someone whose keen attention to detail directly contributes to first class customer experience with Quik’s Farm products. This position reports to the Lead of Creative.
Responsibilities
- Create bouquet recipes and frameworks for individual mass market accounts based on sales forecasts and product availability expectations
- Develop new product line ups and color palettes according to current floral design trends
- Support the Lead of Creative in collaborating with Purchasing to source appropriate fresh and hard goods that fit design trends, providing input on account-level needs
- Support the Lead of Creative in collaborating with the Sales team on new initiatives, customer requirements, and specific promotional requests
- Photograph floral creations and document recipes in alignment with required input costs
- Stay updated with ongoing sales efforts, trends, and customer activity
- Provide feedback to Sales and Marketing departments to effectively market floral products
- Visit customer locations to follow up on retail level execution and report findings
- Sit in on customer meetings to get key design feedback where required
- Generate progress reports for internal and external customers
- After each major event or holiday, capture and document key feedback on product and design performance, ranking of available products, colour performance, supply/availability notes and share a structure summary with the Lead of Creative and Products & Program Manager.
- Performs other duties as required
Qualifications
- Comprehensive understanding of floral design and color use trends
- Completion of Grade 12. Post secondary business admin certificate or degree will be considered an asset. Recognized floral design diploma or relative experience will be strongly considered a key asset.
- Must have a minimum of 2 years experience in a design. Experience in a cut floral company or further understanding of the floral business will be strongly considered a key asset.
- Creative, high level of innovation, open imagination, trend and design focused
- Must have the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Excellent customer service, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Excellent negotiation, planning, delegation, and organizational skills
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed
- Proficiency in office software, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
This position may require you to work on Statutory holidays. There will be no Sunday work.
Benefits and competitive wages are offered based on level of experience and value you can bring to the team.
Please apply with a cover letter and resume to [email protected]
Thank you for the time and effort that you put into your application. Applicants who are shortlisted for this position will be contacted soon.
Pay: $27.00-$32.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- On-site parking
- Wellness program
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Chilliwack, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Experience:
- Floral Design: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person
