Full-Time Warehouse Assistant for Busy Florist

About Us

Flowers Across Melbourne (www.flowersacrossmelbourne.com.au) delivers fresh flowers and gifts throughout Melbourne. We are a growing company and have a focus on creating a fantastic customer experience through exceptional service, beautiful flowers, and high-tech delivery that is all mastered within our friendly warehouse.

About The Role

We currently have an open position for a permanent Full-Time Warehouse Assistant to join our team at our florist workspace in Preston (3072). We are flexible if you have prior experience, want to have a go in the industry or are looking to step into a more hands-on based role and are motivated to learn and hustle along the way - tell us more detail in your cover letter!

We’re looking for someone who takes ownership of their role - someone who can recognise what needs to be done and take the initiative to get it done without needing to be asked. You’ll need to be self-motivated, proactive, and confident in making decisions to keep things running smoothly.

Hours:

• Monday 7am-3pm, Tuesday 7am-3pm, Wednesday 9am-5pm, Thursday 7am-3pm & Friday 7am-3pm

This is an essential role within the team, as you will be responsible for making sure our warehouse and florists have everything they need to make the team more efficient and operate in an organised, prepped and ready for action way. A high level of pride & time management in your work is a must!

This role will suit someone who has experience in factory work, retail, supermarkets, or any detail-oriented & initiative based physical role. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is quick, physically fit and strong, efficient and very well organised, and is someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment working towards deadlines - you will be given autonomy to improve processes and own the role.

You will be helping to organise our warehouse, engage with warehouse unpacking & processing and engage with suppliers and couriers. You will also assist with stock control and stock take, costing and wastage initiatives, flower prep, watering plants, on-site logistics and general warehouse duties as needed. Please note: you must be able to regularly lift and move up to 25+ kg boxes & product and capable/licensed to drive an automatic work van.

Your role may include:

• Ensure the smooth running and organisation of the warehouse

• Product ordering, tracking & costing (working to compare and reduce overall product costs, supplier communication and relations) - experience using Google Suite required

• Unpacking & conditioning of flower stock, sundries, product

• Rotating stock & identifying methods for waste reduction & sustainability across the warehouse 

• Maintaining general workplaces to ensure clear storage in a clean, safe, and orderly manner

• General day-to-day warehouse upkeep (some cleaning, sorting, preparation, watering, restocking)

• Stocktake

• Learning company logistics & customer service frameworks to assist in process improvement and team support

• Assisting logistics team to strengthen warehouse service/courier relationships 

• Assisting in the preparation of orders if required (adding card messages to flowers, packaging hampers for delivery, preparing plants for delivery)

• Collection/Delivery of items when needed (from suppliers, to customers etc), using our company van (automatic) or your own vehicle

• Additional duties as needed

Experience and Skills 
Required:

• Current Australian drivers license (ideally full unrestricted license)

• Ability to follow, analyse and improve systems and procedures

• Exceptional time management skills

• Very well organised with high attention to detail

• Able to work as a positive and helpful team member and both give and receive constructive feedback

• Able to easily lift heavy buckets to and from shelves (up to 25+kg daily)

• General excel & Google Docs knowledge

• Consistent and reliable work ethic 

Great to have:

• Knowledge of flowers an advantage but not essential as training will be provided

• Experience with ordering and costing of stock

If you have a 'can do' attitude, like working in a fun environment, have experience with team direction, have great attention to detail and happy with physical work, we'd like to hear from you. We offer on-site training and development for all listed skills.

Why Flowers Across Melbourne?

• We're a dedicated team with a fun atmosphere

• Pay is above award rate + includes all entitlements such as super etc.

• We actively encourage implementation of improvements to make the whole experience better for the customer

• You'll be part of an organisation that's committed to making a difference through our Charity program: www.flowersacrossmelbourne.com.au/charities

• We're pretty high tech (for a florist)

• Sometimes we have cake

Next Steps

To be considered for this position it is essential that you include a cover letter outlining why you think you would be a great fit for this role, as well as a resume.

Only successful applicants will be contacted.
No recruitment agencies please.