Purchasing & Inventory Coordinator - Onsite
Darien
Purchasing & Inventory Coordinator - Onsite
Part Time • Darien
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Benefits:
- Company parties
- Employee discounts
- Flexible schedule
- Training & development
The Gardener’s Center | Darien
The Gardener’s Center is looking for a highly organized, computer-savvy person to help keep the operational side of our business accurate, organized, and running smoothly behind the scenes.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys systems, details, follow-through, and bringing order to moving parts. You’ll play an important role in supporting purchasing operations, inventory management, vendor communication, and administrative operations throughout the year.
You will work closely with our buyers to help ensure purchase orders, pricing, receiving, inventory systems, and vendor paperwork are accurate and up to date, freeing our buyers up to focus on sourcing great products and planning for the seasons ahead.
This is an onsite position within a small, independent garden center environment. Former office managers, purchasing coordinators, administrative professionals, inventory specialists, bookkeepers, or retired professionals looking for meaningful part-time work are encouraged to apply.
Plant knowledge is a bonus, but not required.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Entering and reviewing vendor invoices and purchase orders
- Working closely with buyers to ensure pricing and POs are accurate
- Verifying pricing and costs within our inventory/POS system
- Following up on vendor credits, shortages, and discrepancies
- Communicating with growers and vendors regarding billing or order issues
- Helping ensure inventory and receiving records stay accurate
- Supporting invoice reconciliation and data accuracy across purchasing and inventory records
- Organizing operational paperwork and maintaining clear systems
What We’re Looking For
- Prior experience in purchasing, inventory management, bookkeeping support, operations coordination, or office administration is required
- Strong computer skills and comfort learning software systems
- Comfortable working with spreadsheets, inventory systems, and administrative workflows
- Strong communication and follow-through skills
- Extremely detail-oriented, organized, and reliable
- Able to work independently and stay focused
Experience working in retail operations, wholesale, landscaping, distribution, or other fast-paced operational environments is highly valued.
We can teach our internal systems and workflows, but we are looking for someone who already brings strong administrative and operational experience to the role.
Schedule
- Up to 20 hours/week during spring busy season (April–June)
- 5 - 10 hours/week during slower seasons (July–March)
- Flexible weekday scheduling
- Fully onsite position in Darien
Compensation: $25.00 - $30.00 per hour
It starts with our values...
We are looking for new talent, someone who is willing to join a team approach, work hard, enjoy fresh air and likes to work with people. The right person will be strong, stand tall, and be able to bend, lift, and carry plants and soil with ease.
If you don’t have a sense of humor or enjoy meeting new people on a daily basis, there is no need to apply. We love to hang with really cool gardeners that we call customers, and we are looking for team members with the same values.
We are open seven days a week and are super flexible with your schedule requirements. We work with students, parents and those with complicated lives — we just have to get the work done by the end of the day. You will be home for breakfast and dinner each day, even on the busiest days.
- We believe getting dirty is fun.
- We believe plants are healthy for our environment as much as your soul.
- We believe in integrity, respect and love for one another.
- We believe bees are in danger and we can save them.
- We believe your garden should be natural, safe and organic.
- We believe in nurturing our customers as much as our plants.
- We believe fresh air is good for you.
- We believe you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
- We believe no one is a failure who has friends.
If you truly believe all of this, you are halfway there, and we encourage you to apply this week!
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