The top five jobs in the bike trade this week – 22nd November

The BikeBiz jobs board helped fill more than 720 positions in 2023, and listings are still on the rise. Here’s our latest top five…

Graphic Designer & Content Creator – Wheelbase

Wheelbase is one of the UK’s leading retailers for premium bicycles, with over 30 years of experience in the industry. Based in the beautiful Lake District National Park we specialise in selling road, mountain, gravel, family, and electric bicycles and equipment.

Our mission is to provide the highest-quality bikes with exceptional customer service, and we’ve built a strong reputation for both in-store and online. With three large stores across the North of England and an expanding eCommerce division, we continue to grow and evolve, offering an expansive range of bicycles, parts, clothing, and accessories to cycling enthusiasts across the UK.

We are looking for a passionate Graphic Designer & Content Creator to join our marketing team and bring the Wheelbase brand to life across a variety of platforms. If you are someone who understands the premium cycling market sector and has the skills for creating stunning visuals and engaging content, then we want to hear from you. You will be responsible for producing high-quality graphics, creating content for social media and our website, and contributing to marketing campaigns that inspire our community of cyclists.

Sales Consultant – 99 Bikes

In late 2022 99 Bikes acquired Hargroves Cycles, a long running family owned UK Business. 99 Bikes UK is owned by the Pedal Group, a group based in Australia comprising over 70+ bicycle retail shops and a wholesale business based in Australia and NZ. Our vision is to be “The World’s Most Approachable Bike Shops”. Our shop teams are filled with driven consultants on the sales floor and skilled mechanics in the workshop.

We find the outcomes that our customers want and reward our people for doing this. Our main support office is based in Southampton. The scale of the business creates a huge amount of opportunity for our people as we promote from within as much as possible – like the employee who started out as a Bike Builder in a shop and worked his way up to become a General Manager. We are looking for future leaders who can grow their careers with us at 99 Bikes and Pedal Group.

We are looking to employ high-achieving consultants who are motivated to provide one on one service to our customers and become successful at sales. You don’t need to know everything about bikes as we offer complete on the job training and support. Each team has regular meeting rhythms, plus individual 1on1 coaching and development. Tiered financial upfront payments and rewards based on achievement, efficiency, quality, upskilling knowledge and team work. Be a part of a team running a successful business and everything that comes with that

Marketing Executive – Alpkit

At our purest, Alpkit is a group of people coming to work each day to share our love of the outdoors. We set about building Alpkit as a business that we ourselves would want to work for: a vibrant, sustainable brand for multi-sport adventure enthusiasts. Right now, we’re looking for a Marketing Executive to help amplify our voice, engage our community, and support our network of ambassadors. If you’re passionate about the outdoors, have a knack for community and relationship-building, and know your way around a social post or two, you might be just the person we need!

As our Marketing Executive, you’ll be responsible for managing day-to-day marketing activity (including social media channels), working closely with the Marketing Manager and wider Marketing team to help execute and develop campaign plans, alongside nurturing relationships with our ambassador network across the Alpkit and Sonder brand. You’ll help to share stories, support ambassadors with their latest and greatest projects, and work closely with the marketing team to spread the word about all things Alpkit.

From coordinating with press and influencers to organising events, you’ll play a vital role in building an engaged community around our brand. This role is all about connection, creativity, and bringing our brand to life across platforms and through real-world adventures.

Mechanic – Rides On Air

Rides On Air has a new opening for a mechanic at our store in Wallingford as part of our enthusiastic team. We are a local family run store offering a friendly environment and a place to help grow our employee’s skill sets.

Responsibilities include service and repair work to customer bikes, preparation of new bikes, maintaining a tidy workspace, and maintaining our commitment to our customer service level.

We are ideally looking for someone who has had previous workshop experience, but training is available for someone looking for a new challenge. Cytech training is preferable but isn’t essential.

Sales/Workshop – Team Cycles

Sales/Workshop positions available at our new Kielder Bike Hire Centre at Kielder Forest. If you’re enthusiastic about bikes and great customer service, we want to hear from you. Apply today. The ideal candidate will be responsible for delivering outstanding customer service, assisting customers hiring bikes. Performing a range of bike maintenance and repair tasks too look after our hire fleet.

As part of the role, you will: greet and assist customers with their bike hire needs, provide expert advice on bike selection, components, and accessories, maintain up-to-date knowledge of the latest bike models and industry trends, handle sales transactions accurately and efficiently, and ensure the showroom is clean, organised, and visually appealing.

You will also perform bike maintenance/repairs / services to our hire fleet and customer repairs, diagnose and troubleshoot mechanical issues, assemble new bikes and conduct pre-delivery inspections, and ensure all work is completed in a timely manner, meeting customer expectations.