Horticulturist — TrustBasket
About the role
TrustBasket is one of India's leading plant and garden brands, selling planters and gardening essentials at scale across Amazon, Flipkart, and quick commerce (Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart). We're hiring a Horticulturist who can bridge plant and product knowledge with commercial range-building — someone who understands what makes a planter work for a plant and what makes it sell on a shelf.
What you'll do
- Study nurseries, retail stores, and the online shelf to understand what sells, why it sells, and where the gaps are
- Build and evolve planter/garden product assortments — material, size, colour, pack, and price architecture — grounded in both horticultural function and commercial viability
- Advise on plant-care and growing-condition fit for new product lines (drainage, material suitability, sizing for root growth, etc.)
- Translate field and digital-shelf research into assortment recommendations, backed by primary data you can defend
- Work closely with NPD, design, and category teams to launch range extensions
- Track competitor listings and reviews to identify what drives conversion vs. returns
What we're looking for
- Formal training or hands-on experience in horticulture, botany, or a related field
- Comfort with retail/commercial thinking — pricing, assortment logic, pack architecture — even without a formal merchandising background
- Strong observational and primary-research skills; comfortable doing fieldwork (nursery/store visits, structured data collection)
- Ability to back recommendations with data, not adjectives — "premium" or "trending" isn't a reason, evidence is
- Prior e-commerce or D2C category experience is a plus, not a requirement
Nice to have
- Familiarity with quick-commerce assortment norms (pack sizes, shipping weight/box constraints)
- Exposure to reading online reviews/listings to extract product insight
What we're not looking for
- Someone who can only talk plants in theory — we need hands-on, shelf-level thinking
- Someone who can only talk commercials — plant fundamentals (drainage, material, growing conditions) genuinely matter to this role