Grocery Clerk

**About Us**:
Summerhill Market is a boutique grocery store chain in Toronto that specializes in scratch-made prepared foods and on-trend ingredients. Our stores go above and beyond a typical grocery store by offering an extensive rotating selection of ready to eat gourmet meals, freshly baked goodies, and curated hard to find groceries.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our growing team and help elevate our brand to the next level. Summerhill Market is an industry trend setter, and we are looking for individuals who are passionate about food and customer service.

Summerhill Market is looking for a **Floral Clerk** to join the Floral Department team at our **Rosedale** location.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
Floral Clerks play a vital role in keeping our Floral Department beautiful, well-stocked, and welcoming for our customers. This is a _hands-on, physically demanding_ role that requires strength, stamina, and a love for working with both people and plants.

Key responsibilities include:

- **Heavy lifting and physical work**: Unloading and receiving shipments of flowers, plants, soil, and display materials; lifting and moving items up to 50 lbs regularly throughout your shift.
- **Outdoor work in the elements**: Willingness to work outdoors in all weather conditions—sun, rain, or snow—as needed to merchandise plants, set up displays, and water/maintain the outdoor garden section.
- **Plant care & merchandising**: Watering, pruning, and maintaining the health and presentation of all plants, both indoor and outdoor.
- **Stocking & product rotation**: Receiving, storing, stocking, and rotating floral inventory to ensure freshness and quality.
- **Display building & aesthetics**: Creating appealing displays, building custom gift baskets and floral arrangements, and ensuring products are attractively presented and accessible.
- **Customer service**: Providing friendly, knowledgeable support to customers—including taking custom orders for flower arrangements and gift baskets for special occasions.
- **Teamwork & store support**: Jumping in to assist other departments when needed, keeping the store tidy, and contributing to a positive team environment.
- **Adhering to policies**: Following all store protocols related to signage, pricing, inventory control, and health & safety.

**Skillset Requirements**:

- **Physically fit and energetic**: Comfortable working on your feet for extended periods and capable of lifting, bending, stooping, pushing, and pulling throughout your shift.
- **Outdoor readiness**: Not afraid of getting your hands dirty and working outside in changing weather conditions.
- **Floral passion**: A genuine love for flowers, plants, and nature—you’re someone who enjoys creating beautiful things
- **Customer-first mindset**: Friendly, patient, and always ready to offer a helping hand to our customers.
- **Experience is an asset**: Prior experience in a floral, grocery, or retail setting is helpful but not required.
- **Detail-oriented & creative**: You notice the little things and take pride in creating attractive displays and arrangements.
- **Flexible & reliable**: Able to work early mornings, evenings, weekends, and cover shifts on short notice when needed.
- **Tech-comfortable**: Able to learn our in-house inventory and ordering systems.
- **Strong communicator**: Clear, professional, and confident in both written and spoken communication.
- **Team player**: Collaborative and supportive—someone who brings positivity to every shift.
- **Education**: High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

**Perks**:
If this sounds like the role for you, we offer some pretty cool perks
- Weekly pay
- Awesome employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Employer paid benefits for all full-time employees
- Dynamic workplace culture that promotes collaboration, internal training/development, diversity & inclusion and recognizing, rewards & celebrates employees
- Easily accessible locations
- Complimentary work swag (your Summerhill Market work shirts are provided)

**Equity Statement**:

- At Summerhill Market, we are an equal opportunity employer that values and encourages diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status, disability or any other characteristic protected by local law. Should you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate._
- The purpose of this document is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for this position and is not an exhaustive list. Duties, assignments, and other responsibilities may differ for similar positions based on business needs of each location._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Perman