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Veg Box Coordinator

The Chard Holding Group CIC
Georgetown, Glasgow, Scotland

Posted: 29 May 2025

Deadline: 9 Jun 2025

Compensation: £12.71 per hour

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Job description

We’re looking for someone to join our small veg box support team, working from our farm and veg box HQ at Barnhill Farm in Renfrewshire.

The role is focused around providing the administrative support required for the smooth running of our veg box service. This includes answering customer queries by email and phone and administration of our website where customers manage their accounts and use the online shop.

You'll assist the Customer Service Manager with a range of tasks and may end up leading on some of these depending on your experience. These tasks include:

  • Ensuring that delivery routes are reviewed and amended to ensure they are efficient.
  • Developing and managing the online shop to allow people to buy more of the organic groceries that they would like alongside their veg box.
  • Purchasing and stock management, perhaps leading with particular suppliers.
  • Producing content for socials, our website, newsletters and emails.
  • Promoting and marketing veg boxes to increase sales.
  • Overseeing wholesale orders of produce to trade customers.
  • Planning and ordering for our veg boxes. 

The role may also include other tasks from time to time such as helping out in the veg shed, with harvests, or making deliveries when cover is required.

Application information

Via form on website: https://locavore.scot/recruitment/

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About The Chard Holding Group CIC

We are a social enterprise which exists to build more sustainable food networks which are better for people and the environment. Locavore CIC was established in 2011 in the south-side of Glasgow and in early 2024 The Chard Holding Group CIC took over now operate Locavore with the same ethos and mission: Our activities include: -Running our two Glasgow shops in Govanhill and Partick which serve 16,000 customers a month with local, organic and zero waste foods and goods. -Delivering local organic veg boxes to around 2000 customers from Ayr to Edinburgh with our fleet of electric vans. We currently make around 1100 box deliveries per week. -Supplying other business and with local and organic food through our wholesale service which also services a local authority via a procurement contract. -Growing local organic vegetables at a number of market garden sites which we sell through our shops, veg box scheme and wholesale service.

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