General Manager

General Manager in Preston

£40k - £50k basic plus bonus

Industry Leading Fitness Operator

We are recruiting for a this fitness job in Preston for one of the UKs leading leisure club chains, who have gyms all over the UK. They provide great pathways to develop your fitness career, firstly through giving opportunities and then with a great learning and development program. There is genuinely a huge amount of fitness industry leading talent to work for and alongside. This is truly a great health and fitness opportunity.

This is a very hands-on management role within the fitness industry and encompasses many areas that can be covered in more detail when you connect with one of our fitness recruitment team. However, the key responsibilities are:

People

• Monthly, weekly and daily meetings with your HOD’s discussing performance, setting objectives and agreeing accountability
• Monthly, weekly and daily training/coaching sessions with your HOD’s.

Commercial

• Managing the targets and KPI’s through your HOD’s and other team members.
• Understand and influence opportunities from your P+L. Create and mange business plans as and when required
• Achieve the targets and KPI’s set for the club
• Managing the targets and KPI’s through your HOD’s and other team members
• Understand and influence opportunities from your P+L. Create and mange business plans as and when required.

Operations

• To ensure full compliance of all company policies and procedures.
• To ensure the correct induction process is always followed for the introduction of new colleagues or role changes.
• All COSHH and Risk Assessments to be completed and reviewed six monthly/yearly as a minimum.

What are we looking for? For you to be successful for this role and what we are looking for are clear. Firstly, you will read the above key requirements and be excited. Secondly a successful candidate for these jobs in fitness typically has:

• A background in management within the fitness industry. We are typically looking for someone who has been a General Manager in fitness, Club Manager, Fitness Manager, Deputy/Assistant Manager or Sales Manager within the fitness industry.
• If you are from outside the industry this role is still possible but you must completely excel in the areas above and have transferrable examples.
• You will have energy, personality and ambition for this fitness job. Skillset is vital but this company also recruit the person sat in front of them, meaning personality and character go a long way.

This fitness job can develop significantly and there are considerable examples of this happening consistently over time and all over the country. The next step from this role would be progression to a larger general manager position for more experience or a cluster manager position.

Your recruiter for this role is Cam Bridger, Account Director at Love Recruitment and can be contacted simply by applying for this role below. Love Recruitment are a fitness recruitment agency, specialising in hundreds of fitness jobs like these. Cam is a health and fitness recruitment specialist for the whole fitness sector and if keen to considered please ‘apply now’.

We are here to support recruitment in the fitness industry and have produced videos on CV writing, interview preparation, guides to fitness jobs and many more that can be seen on our blogs or on our YouTube channel, click on a couple of examples below to check them out.

Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.

Videos

CV Writing - https://youtu.be/9CWgVTOjIb0

Interview Preparation - https://youtu.be/A4ROFccAkZc

Find many more at - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTNe7cM-amgJSXJfCY6jS8Q/videos

Blogs

Interview Prep - https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/blog/posts/21131-the-definitive-guide-to-an-interview-in-the-fitness-industry-for-your-dream-health-and-fitness-job

Why Work in Fitness - https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/blog/posts/19855-why-work-in-fitness-the-definitive-guide