GLL is looking for a Health & Fitness Manager at Didcot Wave. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Fitness Manager, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Fitness Manager job, it's a career.
Supporting the smooth running of the gym, along side promoting our new studios, you’ll ensure the health, safety, and enjoyment of customers and colleagues alike. Highly organised and a fast learner, you will be obsessed with delivering an exceptional customer experience. Previous experience in the fitness industry is highly desirable, and written and verbal communication skills will be vital too, as you build relationships with customers, colleagues, and contractors.
You should have a minimum of a Level 2 Fitness Instructor qualification as you will be required to teach the classes offered at the centre.
Fitness Managers are fast-thinkers, calm under pressure, responsible, and natural with people from all walks of life; this is your chance to progress as a Fitness Manager.
What you need:
- A can-do attitude
- A real focus on customer service.
- Passion and personality
- Knowledge of health and safety
- Be a great team player
- Good IT, literacy, numerical and communication skills
- Some experience of administration
- Cash handling
What you’ll do:
- Being the first point of call for customers
- Answer incoming calls to the centre
- Deal with transactions including setting up direct debits and cash handling
- Dealing with membership enquiries including selling memberships to customers
- Deliver first-class customer service
- Answer customer queries
- Setting up equipment
- Be a key support to your team on a daily basis from preparing Studios, Gyms or Sports Halls for various activities to the general cleaning and upkeep of the centre.
As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees:
A Values driven organisation
Learning & development to support career development
Good Pension schemes
Discounted gym membership for you and your partner.
Industry leading rates of pay
opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events
Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal
Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
Health assurance
Career pathways, professional development are just the start. To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.
Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
25% off Red Letter Days
25% off Buy A Gift
20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products.
Ride to work scheme
Free eye tests and discounted glasses
About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.
Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.
One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.
We offer two different types of work arrangements:
- A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
- A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool
If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work, and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.
So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.
Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Silver Award employer.
However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.
We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.
All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.