Assistant/ Horticulture Manager

• Lead and manage all horticultural and landscape maintenance activities to ensure healthy, attractive, and sustainable green spaces.
• Develop and implement landscape enhancement programmes, tree management plans, biodiversity initiatives, and beautification projects.
• Oversee landscape maintenance contractors and service providers to ensure compliance with contractual KPIs, specifications, and safety requirements.
• Conduct regular inspections of landscaped areas, trees, shrubs, turf, and planting beds, ensuring timely rectification of issues.
• Plan and manage annual horticultural budgets, procurement activities, and contract administration matters.
• Monitor tree health, pest management programmes, and landscape risks, ensuring compliance with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with stakeholders, community partners, consultants, and government agencies on greening initiatives and environmental improvement projects.
• Investigate and respond to landscape-related feedback, service requests, and operational issues.
• Drive sustainability and environmental initiatives, including biodiversity enhancement, water conservation, and urban greening programmes.
• Lead, coach, and develop the horticulture team to deliver operational excellence and high service standards.
• Ensure compliance with Workplace Safety & Health (WSH) requirements and environmental regulations.
• Prepare management reports, inspection reports, project updates, and performance reviews.

• Bachelor's Degree in Horticulture, Arboriculture, Landscape Management, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Science, Agriculture, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant horticulture, landscape management, or arboriculture experience
• Strong knowledge of tropical horticulture, tree management, pest control, landscape maintenance, and environmental sustainability practices.
• Proven experience managing contractors, budgets, maintenance contracts, and landscape enhancement projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.

We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.