The top five jobs in the bike trade this week – 14th June – 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…

Mechanic/Bike Builder – 99 Bikes Ltd

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.

We are looking to employ high-achieving mechanics who are motivated to provide one on one service to our customers and complete efficient, quality services and bike builds. You don’t need to know everything about bikes. A mechanical aptitude is a great foundation. 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. Varying shift times available and your Team Leader adapts the roster to meet the needs of each person and the customers. Some flexibility is available and there is plenty of weekend work if desired. This is a fantastic opportunity for those who have excelled in the past and are looking to build a career with an industry leader.

Customer Service Agent – YT Industries

YT Industries is a fast-growing mountain bike brand deeply rooted in the segments of gravity and trail riding. With our award-winning bikes (including best in class from uncountable global bike magazines). We are taking the bike market by storm since 2008. By 2015 we had already achieved market leadership in the European gravity MTB sector and today we have a global presence, distributing our bikes worldwide, with branches in North and South America, Asia, Africa and NZ/Australia. YT – Live Uncaged

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Customer Service Agent to join our new YT UK team. You will be based in our office in Guildford (The Mill) but will also be able to work from home up to 2 days a week.

The mission for the Customer Service Agent is to represent the YT brand in the UK. It is important to ensure that each potential and existing customer has an exceptional experience. The Customer Service Agent will act as an extension of YT brand and show our customers our core values, accomplished by answering every question and greeting our customers in a pleasant, efficient, and professional manner.

Search Specialist – Apidura

This role will work closely with the E-commerce and Marketing teams in owning and implementing Apidura’s search strategy in line with the companies wider objectives. This position will suit a candidate with excellent technical SEO & SEM knowledge who is looking for an opportunity to apply this to a purpose-lead direct to consumer sports brand.

The core responsibilities of the position will include: managing our global search strategy to maximise our visibility across platforms, management of organic keyword strategies and technical on-site SEO, ownership of google merchant centre and related platforms for SEM, providing regular reporting of strategy performance vs. benchmarks, producing deep-dive performance analysis’ of initiatives implemented, and helping to identify and implement off-site SEO opportunities.

Built from a passion for adventure, cycling and the outdoors, Apidura produces ultralight equipment to enable cyclists to travel farther, faster and more comfortably. Our relentless commitment to producing high quality, thoughtfully designed products has made Apidura the leading choice in technical, performance-focused cycling packs.

Senior Mechanic/Workshop Manager – Cyclonic Bikes

We’re Cyclonic Bikes, a specialist bike workshop and retailer located a stones throw away from West Hampstead in North West London. Established in 2021, we’re still a young small company, but we’ve established an enviable reputation as a highly specialist bike workshop and retailer. In addition, we’ve built and are expanding a Zwift Training Studio in our basement, and in 2025 we’ll be establishing bike fit facilities and more.

We’re up the road from Regents Park, one of the most Strava’d places in the world, and a lot of our clients are those guys doing their laps. I’m Ian, the owner, and I do laps too. We don’t sell kids bikes, shopping bikes, Hybrids, scooters, e-bikes etc – we’re a road and gravel specialist. That said, we’re still a local bike shop, so we’re happy to help out with a puncture on a Pashley or a Brompton.

We’ve worked very hard to establish ourselves as a specialist road and gravel workshop, and we’re now looking for a full time Mechanic/Workshop Manager to head up our workshop. When it comes to our standards, we’re very binary: it’s either correct, or it isn’t. Leading our workshop, you’ll never be asked to cut corners, rush, skimp or lower your standards in any way. You’ll know what excellence really is, and you’ll be allowed and expected to deliver it.

Head Mechanic – 700

700 are a premium bicycle retailer building dream bikes for our customers. We are looking for a dedicated, free-thinking problem solver who is well versed in modern road and gravel bike technologies. We are not a corporate monster, but a tight knit team with and honest, no nonsense approach to the industry.

We’re looking for a mechanic with a desire to take ownership of the day-to-day running and future expansion of the workshop. A versatile, confident, skilled and affable individual with a real passion for the work. More than that – we’re looking for someone to be an integral part of the future of the business. We’d like you to get stuck in and be able to turn your hand to chat about bikes and the sport as a whole; someone with ideas about how things can be done better!

The main responsibility is primarily mechanics, from bike builds and servicing with a view to optimising workshop output and who is comfortable and competent working on premium road and gravel bikes. Detail oriented – a mechanic who treats everyone’s bikes like they belong to a pro! We are a small team and versatility is welcome and encouraged.