Floral Clerk - Part Time

Position Title: Floral Clerk - Part Time

Position Type: Part time

Job Requisition ID: 50501

Banner: Metro

Employment Type: Permanent

This position is part of a unionized bargaining unit. The hourly wage for this position starts at $16.90 - $17.10 and is established in accordance with the collective agreement. Depending on a candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, education, and prior experience, a higher hourly wage may be offered. Any hourly wage offered for this role, whether starting or higher, will fall within the wage scale established for this position in accordance with the collective agreement.

This is a posting for an existing permanent full/part-time position.

Location: 1705 Merivale Rd, Ottawa, ON K2G 1E2
Shift: Days, Evenings & Weekends

Join Our Metro Team as a Floral Clerk!

Bring your creativity and passion for flowers to Metro! As a Floral Clerk, you will create beautiful floral arrangements, maintain attractive displays, and provide exceptional customer service. You will play a key role in ensuring the freshness, quality, and presentation of flowers, plants, and seasonal merchandise while helping customers celebrate special occasions and create meaningful moments.

Our floral department is an important part of the customer experience, and we're looking for enthusiastic individuals who enjoy working with flowers, design, merchandising, and customer service. If you thrive in a creative, fast-paced environment, we'd love to have you on our team!

What You'll Do:

• Design, create, and package fresh floral arrangements, bouquets, and seasonal displays according to customer requests and company standards.
• Assist customers in selecting floral products and provide recommendations for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, sympathy arrangements, and other special occasions.
• Receive, inspect, and organize deliveries of fresh flowers, plants, and floral merchandise.
• Prepare flowers for sale by trimming, conditioning, watering, and properly storing inventory.
• Create and maintain attractive floral displays that are visually appealing, well-stocked, and seasonally appropriate.
• Monitor product quality and freshness, removing damaged or unsellable merchandise.
• Rotate inventory to ensure freshness and minimize waste.
• Ensure all products are accurately priced, labeled, and signed.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of the floral department, workstations, cooler, and display areas.
• Assist with seasonal promotions, holiday merchandising programs, and special floral events.
• Monitor inventory levels and notify management of low stock or supply requirements.
• Follow all company policies, health and safety procedures, and merchandising standards.
• Work collaboratively with team members to support department and store operations.
• Perform additional duties as assigned by management.

Qualification:

• Prior floral experience and product knowledge is an asset.
• Customer service driven.
• Strong Communication Skills.
• Able to maintain cleanliness.
• Able to stand for prolonged periods of time.
• Must be available to work flexible shifts which may include nights and weekends.

The responsibilities and relationships assigned to this role may change as is necessary to achieve Metro's business objectives.

Disclosure on Use of Artifical Intelligence in Recruitment: At METRO, we are commited to transparency and fairness in our hiring practices. In compliance with Ontario's Employment Standards Act (Bill 149), we disclose that METRO and certain third-party job boards we use incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in screening, assessing, or selecting applicants for positions. The use of AI helps us efficiently review the large volume of applications we receive, ensuring that every candidate's profile is considered promptly and consistently. This technology supports our goal of providing an equitable and streamlined recruitment experience for all applicants. While AI tools support our recruitment procedures, all decisions throughout the process are made exclusively by METRO's Talent Acquisition team or METRO employees. At no stage does AI determine recruitment outcomes.

METRO is committed to providing an inclusive work environment that reflects the communities we serve. The company values, respects and relies on the diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and points of view because it allows us to innovate, make better decisions and better understand our customers. We will consider qualified applications from all walks of life to build the best team.

We encourage you to let us know if your current condition requires accommodation in the recruitment process so that we can accommodate you.

Please note that we will only contact those whose applications are selected.

We respectfully request that agencies do not contact us or send us unsolicited applications.