Careers

Are you confident and determined enough to strive for greater achievement this year?

Do you consider yourself to be personal and professional with a real eye for detail?

Are you unhappy in your current role, or simply looking for a better opportunity to drive up your income?

Are you helpful and confident and approachable?

Are you looking for…

• A work-life balance based on mutual respect?
• A great financial package with the ability to increase your income based on results?
• The benefits of an exciting and varied role in a growing business?
• Family-friendly working hours?
• A business offering you real learning and development and a clear route to success?
• A welcoming, supportive and family friendly team?

Job Title: Lawn Technician or Trainee Lawn Technician

Company: Shrekfeet Independent Lawncare

Location: Alresford, Hampshire

Job Type: Full-Time/Permanent

Salary: £22,000 – £26,000 basic salary – dependent on experience.

On Target Earnings £30,000 – £34,000

Working Hours: 08:00-16:30 (Monday-Friday) – hours can be amended to suit personal commitments.

Benefits:

• Company Vehicle
• 28 Days Paid Holiday inc. Bank Holidays
• Extended Christmas Break
• Personal Performance Related Bonus Payments
• Annual Company Performance Profit Sharing
• Pension
• Company Events
• Training and Development Opportunities
• Emergency/Compassionate Leave
• Career Performance Development Scheme
• Paid Training
• Team Building Days

About Us:

Shrekfeet Independent Lawncare is a small, dynamic, independent, family-owned lawncare specialist delivering high-quality lawncare services across Hampshire, West Sussex, and West Surrey. We do not mow grass and we do not lay turf. We are not a landscaping business.

We are focussed on finding the right people to join our friendly team and providing development opportunities for all. With a strong focus on customer satisfaction, we take pride in our dedicated team of professionals who work together to achieve exceptional results in managing the needs of our customer’s lawns. We deliver exceptional customer experience. Our customers rate us as ‘Excellent’ on Trust Pilot and our Google Reviews are 5-Star.

Respect is a core value in our business. We ensure that our employees are happy in their work. Personal responsibilities outside of work can be accommodated. If you need your hours of work varied to accommodate childcare, or similar, then we are happy to accommodate this where possible.

The Role:

The role reports directly to the Operations Manager and varies depending on the time of year. As a lawn technician, you will play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing the appearance of our clients’ lawns.

Based outdoors, you must enjoy the fresh air and be confident outside in all weathers. You must be a confident driver and experience driving vans is beneficial but not essential.

You will be provided with a full training and development programme which will teach you the science of lawn care and skills in becoming a specialist in the profession – previous knowledge of lawn care is not required, although is preferred.

Following your training period, your typical working day would involve independently visiting 10 – 25 domestic lawns to assess their condition, investigate any issues and apply seasonal lawn treatments. These include services such as fertiliser applications, moss and weed control treatments.

Twice a year, in spring and autumn, we carry out lawn repair renovation work to improve the condition of lawns by using specialist pedestrian equipment which can be heavy.  Therefore, you must be physically fit and able bodied.

You will largely manage your own day, whilst having the support of the office team ready to assist you where needed. You will be assigned your own area of operations, with your own customers that you will be visiting seasonally throughout the year.

There will be occasions where you will need to work in teams of two or more, so it is important that you can work both independently and as part of team.

Getting to know your customers, building trust and a rapport with them, will be massively beneficial to you in improving your job confidence and customer satisfaction. You must be friendly and respectful when talking to your customers and ensure that their needs and concerns are your utmost priority. A background in a customer service, retail or similar customer facing role will be beneficial. and you must possess good numeracy and literacy skills.

Consequently, good communication and strong English language skills, both written and spoken, are vital to this role. Numeracy skills will also be beneficial. Your customer visits are managed through a mobile device daily, so you must be competent with technology.

There is opportunity for progression within the company, so a strong aptitude for learning is recommended.

Education:

• GCSEs or equivalent in English and Maths (required)
• PA1 & PA6 qualification (preferred)

Experience:

• Driving: 2 years (preferred)
• Customer service: 2 years (preferred)
• Technical/mechanical skills (preferred)

Requirements:

• Full UK manual vehicle driving licence
• No facial tattoos
• The right to work in the UK.

Are you confident and determined enough to strive for greater achievement this year?

Do you consider yourself to be personal and professional with a real eye for detail?

Are you unhappy in your current role, or simply looking for a better opportunity to drive up your income?

Are you confident enough to take on a challenging role, offering you the potential to join the management team as a future business leader?

Are you looking for…

• A work-life balance based on mutual respect?
• A great financial package with the ability to drive your income based on results?
• The benefits of an exciting and varied role in a growing business?
• Family-friendly working hours?
• A business offering you real and rapid development and a clear route to be part of the management team?
• A welcoming, supportive and family friendly team?

Job Title: Sales & Marketing Executive

Company: Shrekfeet Independent Lawncare

Location: Hybrid role, Alresford, Hampshire and Home

Job Type: Full-Time/Permanent

Salary: £24,000 – £28,000 basic salary – dependent on experience.

On Target Earnings £32,000 – £36,000

Working Hours: 08:30-17:00 (Monday-Friday) – hours can be amended to suit personal commitments.

Benefits:

• 28 Days Paid Holiday inc. Bank Holidays
• Personal Performance Related Bonus Payments
• Annual Company Performance Profit Sharing
• Pension
• Company Events
• Training and Development Opportunities
• Emergency/Compassionate Leave
• Career Performance Development Scheme
• Paid Training
• Team Building Days
• Internal Competitions and Prizes

About Us:

Shrekfeet Independent Lawncare is a small, dynamic, independent, family-owned lawncare specialist delivering high-quality lawncare services across Hampshire, West Sussex, and West Surrey. We do not mow grass and we do not lay turf. We are not a landscaping business.

We are focussed on finding the right people to join our friendly team and providing development opportunities for all. With a strong focus on customer satisfaction, we take pride in our dedicated team of professionals who work together to achieve exceptional results in managing the needs of domestic lawns. We deliver exceptional customer experience. Our customers rate us as ‘Excellent’ on Trust Pilot and our Google Reviews are 5-Star.

Respect is a core value in our business. We ensure that our employees are happy in their work. Personal responsibilities outside of work can be accommodated. If you need your hours of work varied to accommodate childcare, or similar, then we are happy to accommodate this where possible.

The Role:

This newly created role reports directly to the Managing Director. We are a smaller business, growing rapidly. We will provide exceptional career progression opportunities and the ability to really be involved and drive improvement. There will be no dull moments, there will be great achievements.

You will play a crucial part in developing and delivering the go-to-market strategy and related sales campaigns. With ownership for reporting through the sales & marketing dashboard, this role is fundamental in the delivery of the revenue target to meet business objectives.

This is a hybrid working role split between our Alresford location and your home or other chosen workspace.

You will be provided with a full training and development programme which will teach you the fundamentals of lawncare and the services we provide – previous knowledge of lawncare is not required, although is preferred.

Role Responsibilities

There is no requirement for cold calling or canvassing. This role involves engagement with existing customers and inbound enquiries only.

Working directly with the Managing Director you will take responsibility for defining the marketing budget, developing and executing the sales and marketing strategy, and developing relevant campaigns through both off-line and digital channels.

You will develop and deliver our key account strategy to help support the Customer Experience Manager in building loyalty and longer-term customer value.

Using our sophisticated, specialist, lawncare customer management software, you will drive up average customer value with cross-sell and up-sell campaigns.

You will be responsible for inbound enquires and engagement with new sales leads through multiple channels, to deliver our one-step-sales process for telephone sales success. Additionally, you will develop a strategy to engage existing customers in relation to recommendations made to them by their Lawn Technician.

You will be responsible for accurate and up to date reporting of campaign activity and success through the sales and marketing dashboard.

Knowledge Skills & Experience

Good communication and strong English language skills, both written and spoken, are vital to this role. Numeracy skills and the ability to manipulate data is essential. You must be competent with technology.

Exceptional organisation, prioritisation, and quality are key. You will be liaising with customers and colleagues via our internal CRM, text, email, WhatsApp and telephone, managing these channels effectively is paramount.

Ideally you should have studied marketing and/or business, or a related subject, at a higher level. You must posses an understanding of digital marketing channels and be able to demonstrate your ability to use the relevant platforms to execute digital sales campaigns.

A keen interest in technology and its application in a business environment would be beneficial in the success of your application.

Previous sales experience and training would be beneficial along with a good understanding of the principles of professional sales and business development practices.

Unless you live close to our Alresford base then access to your own transport is required as public transport links are unreliable.

An understanding of the lawncare market would be very beneficial.

There is opportunity for rapid progression to a senior role within the company, so a strong aptitude for learning is recommended.

Education:

• High score GCSEs in English and Maths (essential)
• Competency in MS Excel, charts, formulas etc (essential)
• A-Level Maths and English (preferred)
• Graduate business, marketing or similar (preferred)

Experience:

• Customer service/sales – 2 years (preferred)
• Digital marketing (preferred)

Requirements:

• The right to work in the UK.

How do you apply?

Provide your CV and a covering letter detailing your experience and why you feel this role suits you. If we feel there could be a fit, we will contact you to arrange a brief and informal video call to understand more about you and answer any questions you may have.