Careers at Almondsbury

Welcome to the Almondsbury Garden Centre recruitment page where you can find details of all our job opportunities.

We are always on the lookout for great people to join our family run garden centre.

You’ll find our current vacancies listed below!

Almondsbury Garden Centre is a family run independent garden centre in Bristol that has been supporting the community for the past 93 years.  

We are looking for an ambitious, self-motivated and experienced Visual Merchandiser to join our team. A love of everything gardening and a particular love of Christmas are desirable. You will be hands on and an effective team player.  

As a visual merchandiser, you will be responsible for ensuring our centre looks immaculate and inspiring everyday. You'll need to: 

• Use your creativity and awareness of trends to develop ways to promote our products 
• Liaise with teams about buying, design and marketing to create design themes and plans, often months in advance, including window and in-store displays 
• Meet with retail managers to implement store sales strategies 
• Identify and source props, fabrics, hardware and lighting 
• Maintain a budget and negotiate with suppliers of visual materials 
• Work with architectural features of store to maximise the available space 
• Create visual merchandising packs to communicate visual guidelines including layout principles, visual dressings and signage 
• Assemble or dismantle visual displays in windows or in-store 
• Seek feedback from colleagues and customers on the visual impact of displays and of the changes implemented. 
• Support retail teams when needed. 

 Skills and Experience:  

• Previous experience of being in visual merchandising role  

• Proven record of utilising merchandising to drive sales  

• Knowledge of visual merchandising principles  

• Ability to develop merchandising skillset through coaching within our estate  

• Able to build and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues in different areas of the business as you will be working with a multi-functional team  

• Ability to adapt your communication style to work with colleagues of varying levels of merchandising abilities 

 • Able to manage multiple projects at one time  

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office  

• Able to manage diary and changing priorities 

Job Offer 

Benefits: 

• A positive and collaborative company culture. 
• 28 days holiday leave. 
• A range of company benefits. 
• Salary £30 to 32k 

  To apply for the role, please email your covering letter and CV to Richard Truscott, General Manager.   

 richard.truscott@almondsbury.co.uk

Closing Date for Applications is Friday 16th January 2026.