Are you interested in joining the Wiggle team?

We are always looking for talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. We offer some of the most rewarding career opportunities in sports retail, eCommerce, and IT development. Our people are highly valued and thrive in a relaxed culture which encourages innovation and personal development.

We love sports. We have a global focus and are growing fast. We aim to be the greatest sports retailer in the world. If that sounds interesting to you, take a look at our current openings...

Our History

Wiggle started out as Butlers Cycles, a small independent bike shop established in Portsmouth, UK in 1920. In 1999, Butlers Cycles went online with the launch of wiggle.co.uk.

By focusing on providing unmatched value and great customer service, Wiggle rapidly took off in the UK and soon began expanding around the globe. We have now grown to become a global leader in the online retail of equipment for cycling, running and swimming, selling to over 70 countries in 10 languages and 14 currencies.

We occupy over 85,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space and stock over 2 million items!

Wiggle Work and Play

At Wiggle we definitely understand the importance of maintaining a healthy work/life balance. We work hard, but our working environment is relaxed and we encourage staff to participate in sport.

We frequently train together in club activities such as our running and cycling clubs which operate during lunch or after work. We also participate in events together such as sportive rides and running races.

If you are focused on your work but care about having a healthy lifestyle, you will fit in at Wiggle!

Applications

We absolutely love to hear from you and learn what makes you want to work for Wiggle!

Please send your CV and Cover Letter to Jobs@wiggle.com

We would really like to be able to respond individually to each and every one of your emails, unfortunately due to the volume of applications we receive here at Wiggle, this just isn’t possible. So if you have not heard from us within 14 days of submitting your CV, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.

Thank you for your interest in working for us.

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Title: Japanese Speaking Customer Service Advisor (Nights)

As a Japanese Speaking customer service advisor, you will be representing Wiggle, assisting and advising our Japanese and English customers via Live Chat, Email and Phone with the highest degree of courtesy and professionalism to resolve issues

What will I be doing?

Working as part of the customer service team you will be responsible for helping maintaining Wiggle’s global service levels across all media and contact types. Supporting our Japanese and English customers via contact sources of pre-sale, during-sale and after-sale queries related to all products, brands and services.

• Ensure customer queries are answered promptly and completely via both Chat and Email
• Monitoring, responding and resolving customer queries on Social media
• Monitoring and responding to customers reviews across various platforms
• Calling customers when they request a call back service to answer their queries / resolve any issues
• Ensure that all communications with customers are conducted in a professional and courteous manner
• Offering alternative solutions where appropriate with the objective of ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Any other Customer service related task

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Strong communication skills both written and verbal in Japanese and English
• Strong attention to detail and aiming for excellence in delivery
• Experience of working in a fast-paced office environment as part of a professional team
• Ability to manage and coordinate changing priorities, have high standards and be capable of multi-tasking
• Self-motivated and confident decision maker with the ability to nail actions and a positive ‘can do’ attitude

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Please send your CV to Jobs@wiggle.com 

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Title: Replenisher
Location: Belfast
Salary: Competitive

Are you looking to start your career within Merchandising? If so, please read on!

Wiggle CRC are looking for an enthusiastic Replenisher to manage the stock levels at the correct level to achieve or beat the sales forecasts.  You must have a good understanding of the supply base and manage the placement of product orders, and inbound stocks.  Customer product availability is paramount, and a good understanding of the product sale profiles is desirable. 

You will own the overall stock levels in the business and maintain this at the most efficient level to optimise product availability.  You must challenge and constantly improve the supplier efficiencies such as improved lead times, lower MOQ’s, more efficient pack sizes etc. 

What will I be doing?

• Placement of purchase orders / stock call off’s from the supply base
• Working to improve the overall replenishment parameters from the suppliers (such as lead times, MOQ’s etc)
• Ensuring deliveries are on time and in full
• Liaising with the supply base to gain accurate and honest communications
• Working closely with colleagues in Operations and Goods In to ensure an efficient supply chain
• Maintaining replenishment system parameters accurately
• Resolve supplier issues efficiently and effectively

What experience would we like you to have?

• We are looking for someone ideally from a retail background looking to start their career within Merchandising, however this is not essential
• Enthusiastic and determined
• A strong communicator and negotiator
• Retail experience is desired but not necessary
• Excel experience is desired but not necessary
• Good understanding of supply base constraints is desired but not necessary
• Operates in a timely and organised manner

If this sounds like the perfect job for you, please apply now by sending your CV to jobs@wiggle.com and the Talent Acquisition team will be in contact with you.

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Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Title: Swedish Translator

Wiggle CRC have an exciting opportunity for a Swedish Translator to join the family! Fancy taking on the challenge? Please read on…

What will I be doing?

You will be working as part of the translation team and provide support for the customer service team when/if necessary. As a WiggleCRC translator, you will be responsible for translating everything for your local TLD: website interface, marketing and digital content, technical products, help pages.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Translate website contents, product descriptions and marketing and digital contents
• Understand and learn WiggleCRC products
• Make sure the Translation Memory (TM) is organised and up-to-date
• Make sure the glossary/termbase is organised and up-to-date
• Assist the customer service team with incoming email and phone queries from customers
• Any translation and communication in any other foreign language as required by WiggleCRC
   

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Native standard of Swedish as well as English
• Degree in translation or equivalent experience
• Deep understanding and excellent command of CAT tool
• Post-editing skill will be an advantage
• Creative writing skill will be an advantage

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Please send your CV to Jobs@wiggle.com 

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Title: UX Designer

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive Salary & Benefits Package

Are you an experienced UX designer with a big vision looking for progression in 2018? If so, WiggleCRC has the perfect opportunity for you…

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic UX Designer who is passionate about improving the user experience by understanding and empathising with the people we are designing for. We’re looking for someone who approaches work with curiosity and a high degree of attention to detail. 

What will I be doing?

We put users at the heart of what we do, and you’ll be creating engaging digital experiences that are loved by our customers and deliver real business growth. The role will see you working in a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment, to research and understand user problems by developing and crafting user personas, goal and task analysis, user scenarios, conceptual sketches, wireframes and prototypes

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

We are looking for a UX Designer with a solid understanding of UX best practice and web standards, and who has experience working in an Agile project environment. We are particularly interested in UX Designers who have demonstrable experience in User Research.

We are looking for self-motivated, creative people with strong communications skills that can drive real change for our customers.

• 2+ years previous experience in a UX role.
• Experience of responsive web design
• Ability to present research findings and illustrate innovative solutions
• A passion for usability and accessibility standards
• Proficient in prototyping tools such as Axure/Adobe XD/InVision/Marvel etc
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of various user-centric research methods
• Experience of refining solutions through testing and iteration.

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Please send your CV to Jobs@wiggle.com 

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Title: UI Developer

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

WiggleCRC are looking for an experienced UI Developer to the join the family! Are you looking for your next challenge to get your teeth into? Great, please read on…

What will I be doing?
As part of the UX/UI team, you will be responsible for the user interface, including visual design, mark-up and interactivity, to support Wiggle’s global e-commerce sites across all devices.

The role will see you working in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary, environment, translating UX design into working product features and prototypes as well as refactoring, refining and optimising existing features. The ideal candidate will have experience with conceptualising/designing/developing user interfaces for ecommerce.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• 1-3 years working on the UI of an enterprise scale company, or similar experience
• Experience with Responsive Web Design
• HTML5
• CSS3
• ES5/ES6, jQuery

• Git/version control experience

• Experience of testing across multiple devices and browsers
• An experienced, competent UI developer, who is proactive and happy to work as part of a team.
• A great communicator, able to articulate a schedule for deliverables and remain on track.
• Comfortable in speaking about web technologies and capabilities to an audience with ranged understanding.
• Excited by cutting edge front-end technologies.
• Aware of coding standards and accessibility practices.
• Always eager to learn new technologies and embrace Agile ways of working.
• Passionate about producing high quality work and have close attention to detail.

Desired skills

• Experience of BEM methodology
• Experience of SASS or LESS
• A Reactive Framework (React.JS, Angular.JS, Angular 2)
• An understanding of working with REST API’s
• The ideal candidate will have experience with conceptualising/designing/developing user interfaces for ecommerce and the following:

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Please send your CV to Jobs@wiggle.com 

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Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Title: Financial Accountant

Wiggle CRC has an exciting opportunity for a qualified Financial Accountant to join the team! Are you looking to join a fast-paced innovative company? Then please read on…

What will I be doing?

The Financial Accountant has overall responsibility for the preparation, accuracy and compliance of the group’s annual financial statements and consolidation prepared under IFRS, as well as the monthly accounting duties in a range of areas including the Group’s debt and holding companies and oversight of the month end process for smaller trading entities. The Financial Account will also provide key support to the Group Financial Reporting & Tax Manager for the monthly UK, EU and AUS VAT/GST returns as well as ongoing tax and legal requirements of the Group. In addition, the Financial Account will prepare the weekly Cashflow forecast for circulation to the Executive Board.

Duties and responsibilities:

• The Mapil Topco Limited Group includes 17 legal entities spanning 5 countries, including 6 trading entities. In addition to the Group consolidated accounts, there are two sub-consolidations prepared for banking purposes
• Line managing an Assistant Financial Accountant
• Project work consisting of the Group’s strategic and regulatory requirements, including the implementation of a customs warehouse, making tax digital, and expansion into a range of territories
• Preparation of the UK annual financial statements of the Group under IFRS/FRS 101, including the Mapil Topco consolidated accounts and the Mapil Midco 2 non-statutory sub-consolidation
• Cashflow forecasting
• Month end accounting for the 5 UK holding entities (investment and debt companies).
• Month end consolidation of the group, including preparation and maintenance of all consolidation and elimination journals
• Compilation of the WiggleCRC and Group Balance Sheet folders and first review of submitted reconciliations. Preparation of Creditor and Prepayment reconciliations for WiggleCRC
   

What experience would we like you to have?

• ACA or ACCA qualified accountant
• Experience of large group consolidations with multiple elimination and consolidation adjustments
• Application of IFRS in areas such as Business Combinations and Financial Instruments
• Ideally experience in the Retail or FMCG sectors
• Ability and desire to turn theory into practice in a range of areas, including VAT and Corporation Tax
• Strong excel skills (Pivots, complex formulas, large data sets, etc.)

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Please send your CV to Jobs@wiggle.com 

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Title: Online Marketing Manager (Australia and New Zealand)

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

WiggleCRC are looking for an Online Marketing Manager for our Australia and New Zealand markets to join the family! Fancy being part of a fun and dynamic company? Then please read on….

What will I be doing?

The Online Marketing Manager is a key role in driving the growth of Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles websites across AU & NZ. Working for the top tri sports retailer in Britain, and a major international player, this role will have responsibility for maximising profitability through the growth of sessions, revenue and market share across a variety of online sales promotion channels inhouse, primarily Paid Search and Shopping but also including Organic, Affiliates, and Remarketing.   

Duties and responsibilities:

• Be responsible for Australia and New Zealand’s Sales Promotion budget of approx. £1.7m
• Own traffic, revenue and profit targets for AU and NZ markets, which accounts for approx. 10% of total group revenue
• Create, own and deliver an online marketing plan and maximise sales and profitability
• Build and optimise paid search campaigns for WiggleCRC
• Work with the AU/NZ Site Merchandiser & Marketing Manager to ensure traffic generating opportunities are maximised
• Regular analysis of campaign performance against targets and report back to the team / wider business
• Influence content plan to help grow organic traffic
• Finance management – PO’s, receipting and budget tracking

What experience would we like you to have?

• 1+ year paid search experience
• Experience in using Online Marketing platforms (such as Google Analytics, Google Adwords)
• Understanding of how search engines work and interact with websites
• Some experience of bid management tools is a plus
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Budget management
• Analytical approach to interpreting and manipulating data
• Attention to detail in recognising campaign and data accuracy
• Ability to make decisions in line with commercial goals of business
• Ability to multi task across several channels and projects
• Strong communication skills
• An interest and knowledge in tri-sports are also desirable

Does this sound like your next challenge? Great, please apply now by sending your CV to jobs@wiggle.com or contact the Talent team for more information!

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Title: Online Marketing Manager, UK

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Wiggle CRC are looking for a PPC focused Online Marketing Manager to join the Wiggle CRC family! Are you looking for your next challenge for 2019? Great, we have the perfect opportunity for you…

What will I be doing?

This is a key role in driving the growth of Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles websites across the UK. Working for the top tri sports retailer in Britain, and a major international player, this role will have responsibility for maximising profitability through the growth of sessions, revenue and market share across a variety of online sales promotion channels inhouse, including Paid Search, Google Shopping, Affiliates and Remarketing.                                             

You will also…

• Execute paid search, shopping, affiliate and remarketing campaigns for WiggleCRC
• Create, own and deliver an online marketing plan
• Maximise sales and profitability by identifying opportunities to achieve revenue growth and efficiency targets as well as drive new customers
• Build and optimise paid search, including shopping, campaigns for WiggleCRC
• Develop and optimise affiliate programs
• Regular analysis of campaign performance against targets and report back to the team / wider business
• Support the other English language accounts when required

What experience would we like you to have?

• 1+ year paid search experience
• Experience in using Online Marketing platforms (such Google Analytics, Google Adwords)
• Understand how search engines work and interact with websites
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Budget management
• Analytical approach to interpreting and manipulating data
• Attention to detail in recognising campaign and data accuracy
• Ability to make decisions in line with commercial goals of business
• Retail or e-commerce experience desirable 
• Some experience of bid management tools a plus
• An interest and knowledge in tri-sports are also desirable

Does this sound like your next challenge for 2019? Great, please email your CV to Jobs@wiggle.com

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Senior Systems Administrator

Location: Portsmouth

Competitive Salary & Benefits Package

WiggleCRC are looking for a passionate Senior Systems Administrator to join the IT team!

You will support IT Operations as a senior member of the Production Services Team, managing and maintaining IT services and network infrastructure across the WiggleCRC business and to be a leading 3^rd line technical resource. You are accountable for ensuring IT can meet all SLAs for incidents, requests and up-time for any services that are time dependant and maintain the PCI environment.

What will I be doing?

• The team supports and maintains services for 4 offices, 3 datacentres and 3 warehouses.
• Support/manage and monitor over 350 servers, physical and virtual.
• Support/manage and monitor over 50 network devices.
• Support and monitor the Wiggle website, which is a 24/7/365 critical service.
• The Production Service Team support all user journeys: Customer, Supplier, Product, IT, HR and Finance.   
• Multiple environments, including Production, Pre-Prod and DR on physical, virtual and cloud platforms.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Fulfilling a senior technical role in the Production Services team, providing support to the business and knowledge-transfer to team-members in their daily work and activities.
• Providing detailed 3^rd line technical advice and researching, recommending and implementing technical solutions to fit business requirements.
• Providing proactive day to day support and administration for all infrastructure and services, including servers, storage and networks.
• Liaising with 3^rd party vendors and managed service partners to deliver a highly available always-on service.
• Managing incidents, service requests and following the change management process for Production Services team.
• Managing, tracking and trouble-shooting issues, change controls and live fault escalations.
• Maintaining a high level of availability of services and minimising the risk of exposure to system downtime through continual monitoring of key systems.
• Improving process development, documentation and knowledge dissemination.
• Provision of out of hours support.
• Making recommendations for system improvements optimisations and efficacies.
• Liaise closely with internal/external contacts to monitor and maintain current infrastructure while driving new technical projects forward.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• At least 3 years’ experience in a third-line technical support role.

• Experience and knowledge of supporting and maintaining an e-commerce platform including Windows, IIS, .Net framework, Certificate management etc.
• Experience and knowledge of supporting and maintaining an Active Directory-based Wintel environment including Group Policy, Active Directory Domain Services, DFSR and so forth.
• Experience and Knowledge of supporting and maintaining an enterprise Network, including load balancers, firewalls, VPN, Cisco routers and switches.
• Experience and Knowledge of supporting and maintaining VMware virtualised platforms.
• Experience supporting messaging systems such as Exchange and Office 365
• Experience supporting enterprise storage arrays, including DELL, HP, EMC, various models.
• Ability to manage priorities within small team
• Experience and Knowledge of using and configuring enterprise monitoring solutions, such as Solarwinds.

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Please send your CV to Jobs@wiggle.com 

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Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Title: Digital Designer

Wiggle are currently looking for a creative Digital Designer to join the team on a permanent basis! Fancy taking on the challenge? Read on…

What will I be doing?

You will be visually connecting with the customer base and audience via the website and email, providing creative solutions to the Marketing department and the business as whole, across all channels including web, email and ATL advertising.

You will work closely with Category Marketing, International Marketing, Brand and Ecommerce teams, and will help produce the best visual representation of what key messages these teams are trying to advertise, and help tailor it across 13 languages sites, emails and ATL channels.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Design content across all of Wiggle’s sites and emails.
• Ensure all projects are delivered to agreed timescales, scheduled and free of errors.
• The creative theme should be in line with the brands current brand guidelines.
• Translations and localized versions of banner should be created and distributed effectively.
• Contribute to the overall marketing strategy by providing honest, insightful and constructive feedback to the team.
• Pass on knowledge and skills to other team members.
• Own and manage the BAU workflow relating to one channel e,g site, email, ATL. Delegate where necessary.
• Effectively assess code to deliver site improvements and efficiencies.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Degree level qualifications in Web Design or Graphic Design.

• Strong commercial experience of HTML5, CSS3 development.
• Experience in banner design and commercial messaging.
• A strong design portfolio working with Adobe products.
• Awareness of the challenges with online retail with strong commercial awareness.
• Ability to work in a close team in a dynamic working environment.
• Ability to handle multiple workloads simultaneously and perform under pressure.
• Ability to negotiate and delegate
• A level of spontaneity and technical confidence.
• Knowledge of Javascript coding is desirable, but not essential
• Knowledge of content management systems is desirable but not required.

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Please send your CV and your portfolio to Jobs@wiggle.com 

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Title: PPC Specialist

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Wiggle CRC have an exciting opportunity for 2 PPC Specialist to join the family! Fancy joining a leading sports retailer and progressing your career? Great! Please read on… 

What will I be doing?

This is a key role in driving the growth of both Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles websites. Working for the top tri sports retailer in Britain, and a major international player, this role will have responsibility for maximising profitability through the growth of sessions, revenue and market share across our Organic, Google Shopping, Affiliates and Remarketing channels, with a core focus on Paid Search.

You will also…

• Analyse the performance of marketing channels
• Identify key areas for improvement or growth across multiple countries
• Create, own and deliver online marketing plans
• Lead global online marketing projects with the team of country specific online marketing managers
• Share channel best practices with the wider team
• Lead training on Paid Search best practices with the wider team and business
• Maximise sales and profitability
• Grow market share across relevant markets
• Monitor the progress of Paid Search performance & channel development

What experience would we like you to have?

• Interest in, or knowledge of Paid Search marketing required with a focus on optimisation
• Experience of analysing large pieces of data is required
• Strong Excel skills
• Attention to detail key in this role
• Be able to work effectively with minimal direction
• Ability to multi task across a number of channels and projects
• Experience of working across multiple accounts is an advantage
• Knowledge or experience in third party Digital Marketing platforms an advantage
• Written / spoken language skills for one European language is an advantage (preferably Italian or Danish)
• Retail or e-commerce experience desirable 
• An interest and knowledge in tri-sports are also desirable

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Great, please apply now by sending your CV to jobs@wiggle.com or contact the Talent Team for more information!

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Title: IT Service Desk Analyst

Location: Mallusk

6-month fixed term contract

Are you an experienced IT Service Desk Analyst with exceptional customer service skills?

We are looking for an IT Service Desk Analyst to join our fun loving and highly professional team based at our office in Mallusk. Our Service Desk team support over 1000 Wiggle CRC staff and deal with on average 25 queries each, per day, in order to allow our business to run smoothly.

What will I be doing?

Our IT Service Desk is an integral part of the Wiggle CRC business and acts as a gateway for IT users to engage with the IT department. The work completed within this team ensures that all staff at Wiggle CRC have what they need to perform within their role.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Performing first time fix on incidents raised to the team in a professional manner.
• Provide first line telephone and ticket-based IT and application support to the Wiggle business
• Performing service requests raised to the team including accounts set up, software installations and physical desk moves.
• Manage the change management process and attend a Change Acceptance Board when required.
• Pro-actively identify problems and trends and propose solutions and recommendations to optimise systems performance and stability.
• Renew or procure services on behalf of the IT department where required by following the purchase order process
• Provide reports on IT performance to senior members of the Wiggle business.

What experience would we like you to have?

• Windows 7 and Windows 10 administration experience.
• Basic network and / or database skills (SQL)
• Active Directory and Office 365 exposure.
• Sharepoint
• Knowledge and understanding of ITIL.
• Excellent customer service skills and a willingness to deal directly with users either by phone or face to face.
• Excellent written skills are essential
• Experience at working in a busy support environment
• Evidence of process improvement to increase efficiency must be shown.

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Job Title: eBay Manager

Location: Bilston

Position type: Permanent/ Full time

About the role:

The purpose of this role is to lead, develop and significantly grow the current WiggleCRC eBay operation based within the Citadel Warehouse. A strong leader with a commercial mindset to expand an existing operation and driving sales volumes of both new and returned stock.

What you'll be doing:

The eBay Team Manager will be responsible for growing the existing eBay operation into a sales platform which will process, in addition, new high margin and slow-moving stock.

You will be accountable for the eBay P&L and will manage the eBay relationship, commercial agreements, stock flow, people and process.

Who we're looking for:

A dynamic, forward thinking and commercially astute attitude is required to succeed in this role. Confidence in managing stakeholders internally and externally to drive volumes and reward for the business.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Experience of a high churn, fast paced selling platform with understanding of business and customer requirements.
• Analytical and commercially driven with the ability to deliver improvements on commercial agreements.
• Motivated and able to lead and influence a team.
• Understanding of business functionality and P&L management with the confidence to identify and influence financial opportunity.
• Previous eBay knowledge and stock management experience.

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Please send your CV to Jobs@wiggle.com 

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Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive Salary (depending on experience)

Title: Junior Buyer

Are you passionate about sports and have commercial experience? If so, we have the #dreamjob for you! WiggleCRC are looking for a Junior Buyer to join the family…

What will I be doing?

You will work with a Buyer to support the WiggleCRC category strategy and purchase the right products for our customers. You will develop a good understanding of the WiggleCRC customer, the product category as well as overall market.  Negotiation skills are essential, and you must be able to communicate with varying levels of stakeholders.  The Junior Buyer must operate within the agreed Merchandisers Range Framework to keep the range width and depth appropriate, with a balanced product listing.  The Junior Buyer will own some brand relationships and must be able to manage these and ensure product go to market plans fit with the overall category plan.

As well as this you will be…

• Managing balanced number of Suppliers / Brands
• Supplier Terms / Deals negotiations
• On Boarding new Suppliers, Brands and Products
• Exiting poor selling / non profitable Suppliers, Brands and Products
• Identifying growth opportunities within product ranges
• Communicating relevant details to the wider business (Marketing / International)
• Assisting on buying trips as needed
• Contribute to planning, trade and sales meetings
• Ability to analyses trade and trends

What experience and skills would we like you to have?

• A passion for retail
• Recent graduate or experience working within a commercial environment
• Purchasing or buying experience (preferred)
• Basic understanding of buying and merchandising
• Ability to self-motivate and prioritise workload
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Clear communication skills
• Good IT literacy

Does this sound like your #dreamjob? Great! Please contact that Talent Acquisition team for more information, or apply now!

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Title: Project Manager

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

WiggleCRC are currently on the lookout for a strong Project Manager to join the team on a permanent basis in Portsmouth!

What will I be doing?

You will be responsible for the delivery of a portfolio of 2 - 3 projects identified by the business at any one time starting from concept creation through to early life support. You will be responsible for delivering both tactical and strategic change to the customer-facing ecommerce websites, internal business systems and processes.

You will also:

• Design and maintain the project plan within MS Project or other agreed method. Assigning and tracking the tasks necessary to achieve each stage of the project;
• Engage and manage project resources, both from the business and within IT to ensure project is kept on track;
• Capture and tightly manage project budget, both external and internal resource spend;
• Create and update resource plans, highlighting conflicts to Project Sponsor and PMO Manager in advance of conflicts;
• Manage change requests to ensure delivery timelines are not blindly impacted and business value is assessed.
• Complete project close, holding lessons learned workshops and handovers to business owners and IT Support and to evaluate the success of the project and the business learnings;

What experience would we like you to have?

• You will have experience of working within an Agile software development environment.
• You will have experience of delivering business change projects, involving process improvement.
• You will have experience of working on multiple projects concurrently and will be able to manage the priorities within your workload.
• You will have good general IT skills but will also be able to talk to technical team members about more complete technologies.
• You will have great communication and negotiation skills with the ability to communicate with a variety of business and IT teams.
• You will have excellent organisational, planning and time management skills and have experience in budget control.
• Experience of working on ecommerce / front end projects would be an advantage;
• A good understanding of commercial priorities and the trading environment would be an advantage.
• Good working knowledge of PRINCE2, PMBOK or similar would be an advantage.
• Experience of working on change delivery to enterprise-level retail systems would be an advantage.

Does this sound like the perfect next challenge for you? Please send your CV to Jobs@wiggle.com 

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