Horticulture Sales ManagerSouth EnglandHybrid with TravelPassionate about horticulture?Love building commercial relationships around high-quality plants?Ready to lead a sales team and shape the future of a growing wholesale business?This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership within a well-known business, working with horticulture crops across the UK and Europe. You'll sit at the heart of a fast-moving horticulture business, leading people, shaping strategy, and helping bring exciting new plants and varieties to market.What's in it for you?Senior commercial role in a respected horticulture and plants businessCompetitive salary and packageThe chance to lead and shape a growing wholesale division.High level of influence across sales, product range and marketingWork with exciting new plant varieties and product development.The RoleYou'll lead all sales activity across the South of England. This is a hands-on leadership role, combining customer management, commercial planning, and team leadership.You'll work closely with Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Production and Technical teams to make sure the right plants are produced, priced, and sold profitably, while developing long-term customer partnerships across the horticulture sector.Day-to-day you'll be:Leading, coaching and managing the wholesale sales team.Owning and growing key customer accounts across horticulture and plantsDeveloping sales plans and account strategies to drive revenue and profitability.Setting and managing pricing in collaboration with Finance and Supply ChainPreparing budgets, forecasts, and performance reportsMonitoring customer performance and spend potential.Working with Trees and Liners teams to build and manage the product portfolio.Driving new product development (NPD) and launching new plant varietiesVisiting customers around 2-3 days per week, including overnight staysTracking competitor activity and market trends in horticultureDelivering the wholesale marketing plan - trade shows, open days, catalogues, and social mediaRepresenting the business at key UK and European horticulture eventsThis role isn't about ticking boxes; it's about building a profitable, future-focused business built around great plants, great people, and strong customer partnerships.About YouProven experience selling to commercial nurseries, whether that's plants, growing media, fertilisers, substrates, or other horticultural products.A strong background in managing key accounts and building long-term customer relationships.Experience working with pricing, budgets, forecasts, and profit margins.Commercially minded, with a genuine interest in plants and the wider horticulture marketComfortable travelling regularly and staying away from home when needed.A confident communicator who builds trust with customers and works well with internal teams.What's Next?For an informal chat, please call me, Sarah, on 01780 480530, email , or message me on LinkedIn. Don't worry if your CV isn't fully up to date, just send what you've got, and we'll take it from there.JBRP1_UKTJ