About the Role
We're looking for a confident, people-focused Salesperson / Maintenance Account Manager to grow our landscape maintenance and enhancement division. You'll build relationships with property managers, landscape committees, and homeowners, then turn those relationships into results. No two days look alike. Priorities shift, new challenges come up, and you'll need to make quick decisions and keep things moving.
This is a role for someone who thrives on variety in a fast paced, dynamic environment, and who is energized by connecting with people. You'll have a lot of freedom to set your own priorities and goals, and you'll work closely with our operations and leadership teams.
What You'll Do
- Meet with potential clients, including property managers, landscape committees, and homeowners to provide landscape maintenance services, garden upgrades horticultural sales quotes,
- Maintain and strengthen vendor relationships
- Meet department sales targets and operating budgets for both Enhancements and Maintenance
- Work with the Maintenance and Enhancements operations managers to align goals and service delivery
- Prepare estimates using LMN software
- Design gardens and seasonal displays
- Project numbers and order materials for seasonal displays, bulbs, annuals etc.
What You BringRequirements
- Formal education and training in horticulture
- A valid Ontario G license, and willingness to use your own vehicle for sales calls
- Experience in sales, account management, or a similar client-facing role
Personal qualities
- A warm, enthusiastic, and persuasive communicator who sells through influence rather than instruction
- Poise and confidence in fast-changing situations, comfortable making decisions on limited information
- Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, whether the issue involves a situation, a business challenge, or people
- A strategic, results-driven mindset, with the ability to delegate details and follow up on timely delivery
- Self-direction and independence, along with a genuine appreciation for what motivates different people
