Veg Nursery Manager
2026-05-13T18:41:42+00:00
AAA Growers
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Management, Farming & Outdoors, Agribusiness, Agricultural Services & Products, Agronomist
2026-05-31T17:00:00+00:00
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Job Objective
At Veg Nursery, we specialize in producing high quality vegetable seedlings and summer flowers that serve both our internal farming operations and external customers. Our goal is to deliver healthy, uniform, and vigorous seedlings that guarantee strong field performance and customer satisfaction.
As a Veg Nursery Manager, you will take overall responsibility for the planning, coordination, and management of nursery operations. This involves supervising the propagation of vegetables and summer flowers, ensuring the highest quality standards, optimizing resources, and leading a skilled team. You will also play a key role in developing strategies that strengthen veg nursery’s position as a center of excellence in propagation of vegetables and summer flowers within AAA Growers. Greatness, Responsibility, Openness, and Warmth are the values you live and work by.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Nursery Operations & Quality Control
- Oversee the daily propagation of vegetables and summer flowers from seed/seedling stage to transplant readiness.
- Implement and monitor quality assurance systems to ensure high germination rates, uniform growth, and disease-free seedlings.
- Ensure proper irrigation, fertilization, pest and disease management, and nursery hygiene.
Planning & Strategy
- Develop propagation schedules aligned with farm demands and customer orders.
- Anticipate future challenges (climate, pest pressures, market demand) and design strategies to address them.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement in propagation practices.
Resource & Budget Management
- Manage nursery budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness without compromising quality.
- Oversee procurement and efficient use of seeds, substrates, fertilizers, chemicals, and other nursery inputs.
- Ensure infrastructure and equipment (greenhouses, irrigation, shading) are well maintained.
People Management
- Lead, train, and motivate a team of nursery staff to achieve operational excellence.
- Ensure health, safety, and compliance with labor and environmental regulations.
- Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.
Customer & Stakeholder Relations
- Ensure timely delivery of quality seedlings to internal and external customers.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.
- Provide technical advice and after-sales support where needed.
Your Profile
- Graduate in Horticulture, Floriculture, Agronomy, or Agriculture.
- 5–7 years’ proven experience in vegetable and flower propagation at management level.
- Strong technical expertise in nursery propagation (vegetables and summer flowers).
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and team management skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and planning abilities.
- Good command of English, both written and spoken.
- Computer proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Oversee the daily propagation of vegetables and summer flowers from seed/seedling stage to transplant readiness.
- Implement and monitor quality assurance systems to ensure high germination rates, uniform growth, and disease-free seedlings.
- Ensure proper irrigation, fertilization, pest and disease management, and nursery hygiene.
- Develop propagation schedules aligned with farm demands and customer orders.
- Anticipate future challenges (climate, pest pressures, market demand) and design strategies to address them.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement in propagation practices.
- Manage nursery budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness without compromising quality.
- Oversee procurement and efficient use of seeds, substrates, fertilizers, chemicals, and other nursery inputs.
- Ensure infrastructure and equipment (greenhouses, irrigation, shading) are well maintained.
- Lead, train, and motivate a team of nursery staff to achieve operational excellence.
- Ensure health, safety, and compliance with labor and environmental regulations.
- Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.
- Ensure timely delivery of quality seedlings to internal and external customers.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.
- Provide technical advice and after-sales support where needed.
- Strong technical expertise in nursery propagation (vegetables and summer flowers).
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and team management skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and planning abilities.
- Good command of English, both written and spoken.
- Computer proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Graduate in Horticulture, Floriculture, Agronomy, or Agriculture.
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Vacancy title:
Veg Nursery Manager
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Management, Farming & Outdoors, Agribusiness, Agricultural Services & Products, Agronomist]
Jobs at:
AAA Growers
Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, May 31 2026
Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi
Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 13 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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Job Objective
At Veg Nursery, we specialize in producing high quality vegetable seedlings and summer flowers that serve both our internal farming operations and external customers. Our goal is to deliver healthy, uniform, and vigorous seedlings that guarantee strong field performance and customer satisfaction.
As a Veg Nursery Manager, you will take overall responsibility for the planning, coordination, and management of nursery operations. This involves supervising the propagation of vegetables and summer flowers, ensuring the highest quality standards, optimizing resources, and leading a skilled team. You will also play a key role in developing strategies that strengthen veg nursery’s position as a center of excellence in propagation of vegetables and summer flowers within AAA Growers. Greatness, Responsibility, Openness, and Warmth are the values you live and work by.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Nursery Operations & Quality Control
- Oversee the daily propagation of vegetables and summer flowers from seed/seedling stage to transplant readiness.
- Implement and monitor quality assurance systems to ensure high germination rates, uniform growth, and disease-free seedlings.
- Ensure proper irrigation, fertilization, pest and disease management, and nursery hygiene.
Planning & Strategy
- Develop propagation schedules aligned with farm demands and customer orders.
- Anticipate future challenges (climate, pest pressures, market demand) and design strategies to address them.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement in propagation practices.
Resource & Budget Management
- Manage nursery budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness without compromising quality.
- Oversee procurement and efficient use of seeds, substrates, fertilizers, chemicals, and other nursery inputs.
- Ensure infrastructure and equipment (greenhouses, irrigation, shading) are well maintained.
People Management
- Lead, train, and motivate a team of nursery staff to achieve operational excellence.
- Ensure health, safety, and compliance with labor and environmental regulations.
- Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.
Customer & Stakeholder Relations
- Ensure timely delivery of quality seedlings to internal and external customers.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.
- Provide technical advice and after-sales support where needed.
Your Profile
- Graduate in Horticulture, Floriculture, Agronomy, or Agriculture.
- 5–7 years’ proven experience in vegetable and flower propagation at management level.
- Strong technical expertise in nursery propagation (vegetables and summer flowers).
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and team management skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and planning abilities.
- Good command of English, both written and spoken.
- Computer proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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