Floral Manager

Bear Event Design•Denver, CO

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Bear Event Design is a creative event design and décor firm serving events across Denver and the Rocky Mountain region. Our work spans corporate events, experiential activations, weddings, social celebrations, and custom environments where high-impact design depends on thoughtful, hands-on execution. We are seeking an experienced, creative, and entrepreneurial Floral Manager to lead, grow, and elevate Bear’s floral department. This role is responsible for shaping the creative direction of our floral work while also owning the processes, sales outreach, and team structure needed to make our Floral Department a stronger and more visible part of Bear’s overall business. This is not simply a production florist role. While this person must have strong hands-on floral experience and be willing to jump in when needed, the long-term purpose of this position is to lead the floral department. Driving design quality, growing sales, building client confidence, team development, and operational excellence.

Requirements

5+ years of professional floral design experience, preferably with strong event, wedding, or large-scale installation experience
Proven ability to lead floral design for events from concept through execution
Strong knowledge of floral mechanics, seasonality, stem performance, sourcing, substitutions, processing, installations, and event-day logistics
Experience pricing floral recipes, labor, hard goods, freelance support, and installation needs accurately
Demonstrated ability to manage floral orders, vendor relationships, production timelines, and quality control
Experience leading, training, or managing floral team members, freelancers, or production support
Strong client communication skills and confidence participating in sales conversations, creative presentations, and vendor/planner relationships
Ability to work independently while managing priorities across sales, design, production, and department development
Comfortable with physical demands of event floral work, including lifting, standing for extended periods, warehouse/studio work, and occasional weekend or evening event needs
Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation

Responsibilities

Lead the creative direction of Bear’s floral department, developing floral concepts, recipes, installations, and offerings that are aligned with Bear’s design standards and meet the needs of our clients
Partner with Event Designers to strengthen floral proposals, improve how floral is presented to clients, and identify opportunities to expand floral scope within existing events
Drive floral sales growth through stronger proposal strategy, planner/vendor relationships, networking, and business development opportunities outside of Bear’s core sales channels
Support stronger floral proposals as Bear’s client-facing floral expert, participating in client meetings, vendor conversations, walkthroughs, networking events, and sales opportunities
Own overall department profitability in partnership with leadership, ensuring product, labor, hard goods, and waste are accurately estimated and managed
Oversee floral execution and systems from proposal through event completion, using strong hands-on floral knowledge to guide sourcing, stem selection, processing, staffing, inventory, quality control, and post-event review
Recruit, train, and mentor floral team members over time, building toward a structure that includes a full-time staff and a reliable group of freelance/contract floral support
Be willing to jump in when needed during busy periods or complex events