The top five jobs in the bike trade this week – 5th July – BikeBiz

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…

Workshop Technician and Customer Service Advisor – Decathlon Milton Keynes

As a Bike Mechanic in our workshop you’ll be providing high quality bike maintenance and repair services to help our customers enjoy their bikes for longer. To put it simply, the purpose of your role is to diagnose and repair mechanical and electrical problems whilst ensuring that your customers receive the best experience in the process.

You’ll also be involved in recycling and repairing defective bikes in-store, which means that you’ll play an integral part in achieving our collective mission to help preserve our planet. You will also ensure an excellent customer service in our Cycling department, pushing bike sales and preparing the bikes to be ridden!

What will you benefit from? Career progression – At Decathlon, you choose your own career path, whether you aspire to become our next customer service manager or our next CEO – your opportunities for progression are endless! Profit sharing scheme – We’re one big international family who exclusively shares the profit we make with our employees.

Internal Sales Representative – Ison Distribution

We are currently looking for an Internal Sales Representative to join our friendly team. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join a small, friendly Company within a growing industry. Ison Distribution is one of the UK’s leading bicycle industry distributors.

From bearings and bolts right through to complete e-cargo bikes, we offer a product range of 11,000+ items from World class brands. We pride ourselves on the excellent service we offer to our customers. This Ely office-based role will be focussed on making regular outgoing sales calls to a selected customer base to help drive sales, along with processing sales orders.

You will be expected to build relationships with our dealers by way of pro-active contact and meet specific sales targets. Ideally the candidate should have a good knowledge of our products, and a keen interest in cycling, although this isn’t essential. Effective communication skills are key to build strong customer connections.

Full time mechanic and shop manager – Croston Cycles

We are a thriving local and independent bike shop, in the wonderful rural village of Croston near Leyland. We’re in need of a full-time mechanic and duty manager. You’ll need to have experience of working with high end bikes, as we support many of the local cycle and triathlon community.

The shop is open Tuesday through to Saturday and closed Sunday and Monday. Saturday is a critical day, so aside from the usual holiday requirements, it’s important that you can work the days outlined above. You’ll need basic IT skills to access emails and bookings etc, it’s also important that you’re both confident and approachable, when dealing with customers on the phone and in person.

We have a great team to support you and for the right person, this could be a fantastic opportunity. If you’re interested, then simply email us and we’ll be happy to chat over the phone and provide more information.

Senior Workshop Mechanic & Junior Mechanics – Clapham Cycle

Clapham Cycle is a cycle shop, born from a cycling club with an active enthusiast community. We are looking an experienced Workshop Mechanic and a Junior who is keen to develop to join our friendly, ambitious, and talented team.

This is an opportunity be part of an exciting project, our shop opened 18 months ago and has gone from strength to strength. We are planning for an exciting and prosperous year in 2023 and are looking to expand our team with passionate, hungry people. The ideal candidate is someone who has ambition and is keen to develop their skills and share knowledge and has a love for cycling.

Key responsibilities for this role include: repair and maintenance of customers bikes, sales of new bikes and accessories, and leading our existing team of mechanics. Unique job benefits include: competitive salary and monthly bonuses, pension scheme, accredited training and development plan, and future store management opportunities.

Mechanic – Atherton Bikes

Atherton Bikes is based in Machynlleth in mid Wales at the heart of a thriving MTB community and just a short pedal from Dyfi Bike Park. We’re small, agile and we’re ambitious for our fledgling company so bring your A-game! A career at Atherton Bikes is for those who want the excitement, hard work and opportunity of a scale-up, in a culture of World Champions, state of the art technology and a healthy outdoor lifestyle. You will be part of a unique close-knit team as we expand our operations and take the brand to the next level.

We love bikes, so expect free uplifts at Dyfi Bike Park, plenty of after work rides, a huge network of back-country trails and a ready-made group of willing guides to help you explore them. You will be a key part of the team and play a pivotal role in production . The creation of this role coincides with us moving to a new facility in Machynlleth and expanding our new S Series product range.

Your principal role will be assembling bikes and helping to ensure smooth running of the workshop, working across our existing and new ranges as required whilst upholding our excellent workshop standards. This role can expand to match your ambition.