Landscaping Estimator & Operations Manager

Overview

You’ll be the bridge between a customer’s first enquiry and a job well delivered. You’ll visit prospective clients, win the work through accurate pricing and a confident sales approach, then make sure each accepted job is booked in and resourced so it slots cleanly around the existing maintenance schedule and team availability. The aim is to take quoting and day\-to\-day operational coordination off the owner’s plate entirely.

Industry experience is essential. This role is only suitable for someone who has worked directly in the gardening and landscaping industry, it is not a transferable estimating role from another sector as you must understand timings for carrying out work in order to price correctly.

Please note: The vast majority of our work is maintenance work, so while this role spans the full breadth of our services, it is essential that you are equally confident pricing recurring grounds and garden maintenance as you are landscaping, fencing, and planting projects. Maintenance estimating is the core of this role, not a secondary consideration — candidates must be able to accurately price both maintenance and landscaping work to be considered.

Key responsibilities

Estimating \& quoting

Visit sites to survey and scope work across garden and grounds maintenance, soft and hard landscaping, fencing, and planting.

Produce accurate, profitable, competitive quotes, accounting for labour, materials, plant hire, access, ground conditions, and waste.

Follow up on quotes and convert them into booked work.

Sales \& client relationships

Sell confidently to clients at the point of survey, handling questions and objections and explaining the value of the work.

Build repeat and referral business; spot upsell opportunities (e.g. maintenance contracts off the back of a one\-off job).

Operations \& scheduling

Work in tandem with the Office Admin, who handles incoming enquiries, to triage and prioritise site visits.

Book accepted jobs into the schedule, sequencing them around existing maintenance rounds and team capacity.

Direct and coordinate field teams day to day alongside supervisors — allocating labour, ordering materials, and keeping jobs on track — while leaving routine on\-site supervision to the team leads.

Flag resourcing gaps, delays, or clashes early and resolve them.

Essential experience

Hands\-on experience within the gardening and landscaping industry is imperative, this is a non\-negotiable requirement.

Proven estimating and pricing experience across all of: grounds/garden maintenance, landscaping (soft and hard), fencing, and planting.

A strong commercial and sales instinct. Must be comfortable closing work face to face.

Operational/scheduling experience coordinating crews and workflows.

Full UK driving licence.

Confident with quoting software, spreadsheets, and scheduling tools.

Desirable

Horticultural or landscaping qualification (e.g. RHS, City \& Guilds).

Local knowledge of Surrey and the surrounding area.

Salary

• £40,000\-£45,000 per annum plus performance bonus linked to work won and delivered at desired margins.

Benefits:

• Company events


• Company pension


• Free parking


• On\-site parking

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