Our vision is to create the destination for making life a little more thoughtful and beautiful. And we won't stop at flowers and plants. Starting with the Bloom & Wild brand, we're expanding our gifting offering to other categories like cakes, candles and cocktails. This is all part of our ambition to build Europe's #1 direct to consumer gifting destination.

🛠️ Flowers & Plants Team @ Bloom & Wild Group

We are the experts on all things floral! Every week, we create beautiful bouquets to make our customers happy and source the most beautiful plants. We work on the bouquet designs and together with our growers we make sure that our bouquets are extra special and are delivered on time at the best price and within our CO2 targets.

How? With our close-knit team of designers, buyers, bouquet coordinators, flower stylists, quality controllers, and supply chain planners who bring together creative flair and data-driven decision making.

As a proudly certified B-Corp, you'll play a key role in our mission to use business as a force for good. We're dedicated to social and environmental responsibility, and that commitment guides everything we do. You'll be involved in strategies that support sustainability, especially related to ensuring we foster biodiversity at our growers, a vital part of our supply chain.

As a Testing Manager, you have 2 main responsibilities.

On one hand, you are responsible to gate-keep our bouquet longevity promises (10 days at bloomon, and 8 days at Bloom & Wild). You do this by:

- Testing flowers in our range on longevity and keeping track of + analyse the longevity data which you use to advise Range / Design / Buying which flowers to (not) use or buy. You will also support Range in benchmarking longevity from competitors to inform range decisions

- by A-B testing proposed changes from warehousing / procurement and based upon the test results advising them to ensure continued quality to our customers. That means advising on new box sizes, warehouse holding times and other initiatives like hydration methodologies.

On the other hand, you have a great responsibility in our sustainability practices, as you will be responsible for coordinating & driving inhouse pesticide testing. We have set-up an inhouse pesticides lab, by which we can test for pesticides on stems and plants. Your responsibility would be to ensure that tests are being carried out (by yourself and/or some other colleagues) and that we test externally to cross-check results or to carry out tests we cannot do inhouse. You will work closely with Buying, the Director of Sustainability and the VP of Sourcing, Supply and Quality to ensure that we act sufficiently to the test results and safeguard our supply chain from banned substances.

These are some of the skills and experience we think will enable success in this role, but please don’t worry if you are missing some of these. We’re committed to building a team made up of different strengths, skills and experiences, so if you’re excited about our values, passionate about what you do and would like to join us in doing things more thoughtfully, we’d love to hear from you.

🏡 Belonging at Bloom & Wild Group

We know that we learn through our differences, and building a diverse team has always been central to creating the best experience for our customers. We value all backgrounds, perspectives, ideas and experiences, and encourage everyone to share their opinions openly within our caring and inclusive team.

🧭 Our ways of working

We do things a little bit differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. We’re big on collaboration, empathy, knowledge sharing and growth, and our values drive our priorities every day:

Lead change for good: we have the guts to try new things and step up to do what matters most

Think deeply, act swiftly: we make sure there’s thoughtful rationale behind our approach and always act swiftly to implement ideas

Care wildly: we pour care and creativity into everything we do and pay attention to the things that make a difference

Stay open, be curious: we’re open about what we’re doing and why, and we welcome challenges from each other

We really believe in the power of face-to-face connections - be that through a shared project, a learning and development opportunity, or an after work social - and trust our teams to make the right decisions (for them and us) about where and how they work each day. Our working patterns are flexible and vary across the business, depending on the type of work, need for collaboration, and personal and wellbeing circumstances.

🌟 (Some of) The good stuff

To care wildly for our customers, firstly we care wildly for our teams. We work hard to craft a culture of thoughtfulness and care, where there is a strong sense of inclusion and belonging, enabling all of our people to thrive and be successful each day.

🌻 Work that works for you

- Flexible working (core hours from 10-4pm)

- Work Abroad for up to 30 days each year

- Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1

- 1 day per year to volunteer on a project that’s close to your heart

- We’ll support your commute to our office and site locations. Depending on your journey to work, this may include a Swapfiets, an NS business card or expense reimbursement

- Phone allowance

🌴 Time off

- 24 vacation days and an option to buy an extra 5 each year

- Happiness days (1 extra day each quarter for your personal ‘me time’)

- 1 celebration day per year, to celebrate a holiday that’s important to you

- Flexible bank holidays - trade a bank holiday for another day that fits your beliefs, values and celebration calendar

🌱 Health and wellbeing

- Mental health support through Open Up, including access to online therapy sessions

- Allies and champions groups

- Mental Health First Aiders and awareness training for our managers

- In person and virtual yoga every week

- Our office kitchen is stocked with healthy drinks and snacks to keep you going

- Workplace pension contributions

🌳 Growth & Development

- A flexible training framework for every stage of your career development through our Bloom & Learn programme

- Internal & external Speaker Sessions on a variety of different inspirational topics.

💐 Moments that matter

- We love having lunch together! We offer daily fresh and healthy lunch options at our locations in Amsterdam and Amstelveen,

- A BBQ-worthy rooftop terrace (Amsterdam HQ)

- Social & wellbeing monthly calendar

- We love to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other important milestones!

- Summer and End of Year events, team lunches and post-peak celebrations

- Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions!

🫱‍🫲 Getting hired

We know that job searching can be daunting, and we want to do everything we can to ensure that your experience with us is a good one. Interviewing is a 2-way process, and we’re keen to answer all of the questions you have, so that you can be sure (and excited!) that we’re the right move for you.

We believe in leading change for good, so do let us know if there’s anything we can do to support your application process. Also, if you have any feedback, please help us to improve our candidate experience by sharing (anonymously) here.