Freelance Florist

DRIED is a small independent florist specialising in and creating beautiful dried and preserved flower bouquets and bunches online, for commercial premises and for weddings.

All our bouquets and bunches are curated and hand-tied here in our Edinburgh studio and are delivered UK-wide and overseas.

We we are looking for the right person to join our small team as a freelance florist working on online orders and weddings.

• Fulfil online orders in a timely manner
• Prepare dried flower bouquets to a high standard and carefully package them for shipping. Creativity and eye for detail required to create consistent quality of dried flower bouquets
• Prepare orders of individual stems/flowers/grasses and carefully package them for shipping
• Ensure all orders are safely and securely packaged whilst looking professional, presentable and onbrand
• Use the online Shopify system to retrieve orders and use the online mail system to prepare orders for postage (training provided)
• Manage inventory: keep track of stock levels
• Deal with custom orders: creativity and eye for design required to create custom bouquets. Work well to customer's brief to create desired product
• Communicate with wedding customers to ensure strong customer satisfaction and fulfil the customer's brief
• Prepare wedding flowers to a high standard including bouquets, buttonholes, flower crowns, table decorations, installations etc.
• Help to design and install custom arrangements for commercial clients (some travel required but driving not essential)

• Keen eye for design, colour matching and style
• Creative, cando attitude
• Genuine love of flowers and a desire to work with them
• A willingness to learn
• Strong communication skills
• Keen interest in floristry, experience is desired
• Ability to be thorough and pay attention to detail
• Selfmotivated with the ability to work autonomously and independently
• IT literate to be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer
• Flexibility required for working schedule and willingness to work additional hours during peak periods
• Ability to work in a fastpaced environment in a growing business
• Care and attention will be required to package orders and prepare them for post.
• Selfmotivated with a cando attitude
• Strong communicator and professional manner when dealing directly with customers

• Experience in designing and creating wedding flowers is desirable

• This is a freelance role and therefore we are flexible with working hours. We anticipate that hours will range from 1 day

• Casual dress
• Flexitime
• Free parking
• Onsite parking

• Day shift
• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

• Edinburgh: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

• Florist: 1 year (required)