Personal Trainer & Sales Consultant

We would love to hear from you at Zigs Exercise if you love encouraging people to move, want to teach exercise technique and are passionate about communicating the benefits of exercise for health.  We are a purpose driven family business and small friendly team looking for a passionate trainer to work with us at our cosey and unique studio on Bath Road in Cheltenham.  We work together as a team and we are looking for a trainer with sales experience to work with our clients in our mind-body studio and to talk to people at business networking meet up’s and events to attract new people to try out our services.

The best match for this role is someone who loves working with people, coaching and training them in a professional way to support them on their journey of change to healthier lifestyle habits.

Communication and professional passion are key when dealing with our existing clients and when meeting new potential customers. We’d love you to get in touch if that sounds like you and you also have sales experience.

Ideally we are looking for a person educated to Degree level. If its an Exercise science or sports degree or related degree like Sports Therapy, Nutrition or Dance this is a bonus but most importantly it’s about being able to transfer the knowledge of exercise coaching into action with clients and to attract new potential customers in.

Bringing real world stories to life of healthy change is a key communication skill required at Zigs Exercise when we are guiding people on their mind-body journey here. Communicating stories of healthy change at business meet ups and local events is part of this role. So if you love the idea of talking to other business professionals about healthy stories, then we would love to invite you to get in touch.

At Zigs Exercise we deliver personal training from a therapeutic and holistic mind-body perspective which is a very different approach to a large, commercialised heavy weightlifting gym. Most clients need a softer place to land when they 1st try us out as they are in need of a body recovery service. The holistic health coaching and mind-body approach we offer at Zigs Exercise utilises techniques like Pilates & Yoga as well as Sports massage therapy.

Most people who train with us at Zigs Exercise are busy professionals, business owners and parents or grand-parents who intellectually want to improve their relationship with exercise and healthy lifestyle habits. Implementation and action can be a roadblock at their stage of life so they chose to work with us as trainers to support them on action taking in their healthy lifestyle journey.

If you’re feeling like you’d love to talk to us, as you’d relish this responsibility, then we’d love you to send over your CV to enquire.

We are keen to grow as a team and together we work in community on our coaching skills, training, business and sales skills and customer care. We operate a growth mindset at Zigs and value learning in the workplace here as well as enjoy a friendly sense of humour.

We offer personal training and classes to our current clients in person and online from our studio in Cheltenham so our new team member would need to be delivering this and we will offer further training on doing this effectively. We will further offer training on business skills and effective communication training for networking meet ups, events and following people up by text, social media and phone.

In person as a team, we aim to look professional and friendly, communicate wellness, ooze health passion and be attractors of open communication around the habits of health and lifestyle change.

The role is part time initially in person at our studio based on Bath Road, Cheltenham starting at 16 hours per week. For the professional coach who is the best match for this role we are open to discussing increased hours after each 3-6 month employee review.  Increasing hours is based on personal performance of membership sales and retention of business.

This role suits a passionate person willing to work closely with us to cover existing classes and personal training and support other members of the team’s holiday too. In return as a team we can support your holiday cover too with paid holiday (this is a huge security bonus in contrast to the PT’s who work in the larger commercial gyms who are charged high rent and have no paid holiday).

This role does require a highly reliable & responsible team player and in return we will support your healthy career journey. This job is ideal if you love variety within a small team and enjoy learning, training and professionally developing.

To deliver Zigs mind-body exercise classes using our unique methods developed over the last 29 years, we will give you on-going training in exchange for your dedication to the role.

This is ideal if you don’t want to work solo on your own or if working in a large commercial gym leaves you feeling empty despite your passion for exercise You’re keen to work collaboratively within a small friendly team . Perhaps you’ve realised trying to start a business on your own feels too lonely.

We aim to be understanding of our client’s personal well-being needs, health issues & personal goals at their stage of life whilst they often juggle children, busy careers, end of life care and are caring for others.

Can you demonstrate a track record of moving people into healthy action with their habits & being a clear communicator of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle? Can you demonstrate sales skills?

Then we’d love to hear from you if you’re an influential communicator and action taker when it comes to healthy habits, wellness and helping people to move well.

PURPOSE OF JOB ROLE, DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• To support clients on a journey of body recovery, action habits of health and to guide on being in better shape 1to1, in small groups and in classes.
• To support existing clients as a professional trainer and to coach exercise with a clear understanding of the higher importance and value of a more holistic health and mind-body approach.
• To be proactive in talking to new potential people and be able to gain new business and be organised to follow up existing enquiries, working closely together as a team.
• Responsible and organised with sales activities.
• To support the needs of our mind-body studio and team as a whole.
• The initial hours are 16 hours per week and we want to support you in growth and development for a longer term commitment. For the right candidate who would like more hours we can grow these based on your performance as a sales professional.
• We usually agree 16 set hours to begin with and then offer additional hours during busier periods and to cover each other’s holiday throughout the year. Then gradually we can build on the hours to suit you over time. This allows you flexibility with steering the job hours based on your personal performance and experience.
• To be a clear, friendly & influential communicator by phone, text & email in our office as well as in person in the studio and via zoom conferencing.

ABOUT ZIGS EXERCISE

We are a friendly family business that helps people move more freely, boost energy & look well. We support people with body recovery, bouncing back and being in better shape.  Please take a look at our website for more information: www.ZigsExercise.co.uk

You can also follow us on Zigs Exercise Facebook Page, You Tube Channel, Instagram, Linked In and X social media channels.

These are our core values as a business…

• Passionate about helping others focus on health habits and create a healthier lifestyle.
• Professionalism & a high level of work standards.
• Honest & open at all times.
• Reliable – do what you say you’re going to do to continually achieve results.
• Enthusiastic: Willing to attempt and learn new things.
• A “yes I can” mindset

Do you share similar core values?

If so, then get in touch as we’d love to hear how you would match our team.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

Degree Educated, ideally in Exercise science or sports degree or related topic like Sports Therapy, PE, Strength and Conditioning, Nutrition or Dance. Most importantly it’s about passion and enthusiasm and being able to transfer exercise knowledge into actionable healthy lifestyle habits with clients.

Experience ideally within a health, wellness or sports related industry and able to demonstrate an enthusiastic passion for exercise and health.

Sales and business experience.

Communicative, professional & influential confident people skills.

1st Aid Certificate preferred but we can support you with this.

Professional certificates of mind-body exercise preferred.

You may already have a Level 3 Personal Trainer certificate or be working towards this.

You may have a Pilates Instructor or Yoga Instructor certificate or be working towards this or other industry related certificates – feel free to ask us about what certificates you have or are working towards.

A clear understanding of business & retention as well as the ability to generate new business.

Being able to communicate well in writing as well as being computer literate and specifically experience of Microsoft office products. We share on social media so an understanding of how this works is important for this role.

SALARY & BENEFITS

PT Hours & Zigs Classes paid £25 per hour as an employee.

Sales & business tasks £13 per hour paid monthly as an employee plus £13 commission for each new membership signed up.

5.6 weeks of Pro-Rata Holiday Entitlement as an employee.

Training offered for our unique methods of coaching, delivering classes, sales and business.

FREE Zigs Class Membership (incl. Pilates & Yoga training up to 3 classes per week )

(worth £59 per month)

50% Off Zigs Class Membership online for up to 3 of your family and friends.

50% Off Sports Massage for you (usually £76 per treatment)

Hours Per Week: 16 initial hours per week which will be reviewed after the 1st 3-6 months and more hours are likely to be offered for a person looking for more hours and a longer term commitment.

Must be available for Monday’s & Wednesdays (including evening’s) as well as Fridays.

During the summer, we would offer more hours as we attend events like summer fete’s and sporting races, outdoor shows so these are essential hours for gaining new business and are sometimes on weekends.

NOTICE PERIOD: 1 Month

JOB TYPE: Employed, Part-time Permanent Contract

TO APPLY

Please send your CV by clicking on Apply Now.

In the covering email we’d love to hear why you’ve decided to reach out to us…

Richard will be in touch with further questions.

As part of our recruitment process, we may ask you for a video of yourself delivering a PT session or a class.

For successful candidates we would then offer a further interview together where you can ask all the questions about the role.

During that process we do recommend getting to know more about us via our website, Instagram page, Facebook page and You Tube channel. At interview some of the questions we ask are around the research of Zigs Exercise.

We are really looking forward to welcoming our new team member to Zigs Exercise.