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!

 Come Join 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 would 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 30 days of submitting your CV, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.

Thank you for your interest in working for us and please take a look below at our current vacancies…

 Wiggle Work and Play – The Benefits 

At Wiggle we 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.

Our benefits include

• 25 days holiday
• Pension & Life insurance
• Healthcare scheme
• Casual dress in our Google style offices
• Staff discount
• Monthly ride outs - At the end of each month to reward your hard work we encourage the business to take 1-2 hours out of their working day to go on a group ride, run, swim, walk or participate on one of our notorious scavenger hunts!

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The policy makes you aware of how and why your personal data will be used, namely for the purposes of the recruitment exercise, and how long it will usually be retained for. It provides you with certain information that must be provided under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Title: UX Designer

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competetive 

Are you an experienced UX designer with a big vision looking for progression in 2019? If so, Wiggle CRC 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 design and improve the customer journey by creating conceptual sketches, wireframes and prototypes and assisting in user research. We are flexible depending on what type of work you are doing. Some of our UX Designers tools include Adobe CC, Sketch, Figma, InVision, Marvel, Zepplin, Axure and Balsamiq

Responsibilities

• Help to define and improve the interface and experience of Wiggle and CRC
• Propose and design UX improvements which can impact multiple areas of the sites
• Design features that fit within the larger experience and flows
• Create deliverables (wireframes, mockups, prototypes, flows etc) to communicate ideas
• Suggest and vet design tools and workflow improvements
• Collaborate with team members across the business and advocate for users and a User Centred Design process
• Stay informed and share latest on UX/UI techniques, tools and patterns
• Understand responsive design and best practices
• Knowledge and understanding of design systems theory and practice
• Assist UX researcher to conduct research and evaluate and incorporate feedback from UX research into deliverables.

What experience would we like you to have?

• 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 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 digest 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 design methods
• Experience of refining solutions through testing and iteration.
• Experience of atomic design

Fancy taking on the challenge? Great! Please send your CV to jobs@wiggle.com

#comejointheride 

Job Title: Full Stack Web Developer

Location: Portsmouth

Position: Permanent

Wiggle CRC have an exciting opportunity for a Full Stack Web Developer to join the IT team on a permanent basis… Fancy taking on the challenge? Please read on…

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible for development on our bespoke, multi lingual, multi-currency, international eCommerce websites.  As a member of the development team, you will be working closely with other developers and testers as well as business stakeholders. 

• Working on strategic projects, in order to deliver large scale operational improvements
• Delivering change as part of regular releases (typically every 2 weeks)
• Working as part of a small team of developers and QA's, reporting to Lead Developer

Who are we looking for?

Essential skills:

• Development frameworks: Microsoft .Net Framework 4.x with C#
• Web Technologies: Microsoft Asp.Net MVC 5, HTML5 and CSS, JavaScript and frameworks
• Testing Frameworks: NUnit, Moq or equivalent
• Data: Microsoft SQL Server 2008+
• Awareness of best practices for code design (such as SOLID, design patterns) 

Desirable skills:

• Awareness of REST API design & implementation 
• Web caching techniques and technologies (such as Redis)
• Awareness of both agile and waterfall life cycles
• Awareness of API management platform, e.g. Mulesoft 
• Experience of developing on large volume customer facing web application 

Fancy taking on the challenge? Great! Please send your CV over to jobs@wiggle.com

#ComeJoinTheRide

Job Title: Senior Developer

Location: Portsmouth

Position type: Permanent

Wiggle CRC are looking for a Senior Developer with strong leadership skills to join the IT team. Fancy taking on the challenge? Please read on….

What will you be doing?

As a Senior Developer you will design, create, test and document new and existing software components from supplied specifications. Project change may require the introduction of new Wiggle systems, enhancements to existing systems and integration with 3rd party systems.  You will lead a small squad of 3-4 developers within the front end development team.

Who are we looking for?

• Experience of leading development teams to deliver software change and being responsible for delivery of collaborative package of work
• Development frameworks: Microsoft .Net 4.x with C#
• Web Technologies: Microsoft Asp.Net MVC 5, HTML5 and CSS, JavaScript and frameworks
• Testing Frameworks: NUnit, Moq or equivalent
• Data & SOA: Microsoft SQL Server 2012+,
• Industry experience of using best practices for code design (SOLID, design patterns) 
• Awareness of API first design on platforms such as Mulesoft
• Experience of developing on Azure PaaS would be beneficial
• Competent in working in an agile environment, for example Scrum
• Previous experience of working in a retail or eCommerce business on customer facing or back office systems would be advantageous  

If this sounds like you, please get in touch and apply now by sending your CV to jobs@wiggle.com - we want to hear from you! 

#ComeJoinTheRide

Job Title: French Translator 

Location: Portsmouth

Position type: Permanent 

This is a full time permanent position based in our Portsmouth office 

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 French 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

#ComeJoinTheRide

WiggleCRC are currently recruiting for an experienced Financial Accountant to Join the team in Portsmouth.

What will you be doing?

Reporting to the Head of Tax, Accounting and Cashflow, the Financial Accountant provides support to the HTAC and is responsible for the integrity and accuracy of the tax, duty and VAT of the Group.  The FA also works closely with the wider Financial Control team to assist where possible and ensure accurate monthly consolidated management accounts.

The FA will be the Line Manager for the Import Export Analyst.  The FA acts as key member in ensuring that the group accounts are correctly presented from a technical perspective and that all tax obligations are complied with.

Accountabilities:

• Management and support of one direct report;
• Overseeing the customs warehouse operation and reporting on performance;
• Completion of all VAT returns;
• Monthly Reconciliation of VAT accounts;
• Working with tax advisers to assist with the annual corporation tax returns and research and development claims;
• Completion of tax notes to be included in the statutory accounts;
• Seeking continuous improvement in the area of customs warehouse, tax and VAT;
• Active participation in projects to improve tax, VAT and financial reporting;
• Assisting the wider Financial Control team where required;
• Assisting the wider business with a focus on buying and merchandising to understand the impacts of VAT;
• Assisting the wider business with a focus on operations to understand the duty regime and how cost savings can be realised;

KPI’s:

• Ensuring tight internal controls around Tax, VAT and Financial Reporting
• Timely submission of VAT returns, eliminating all penalties and interest
• Full reconciliation of all VAT accounts with no differences
• Timely completion and submission of annual corporation tax returns
• Providing support and cover to the Import Export Analyst in order to successfully operate the customs warehouse
• Understanding and resolving any system process that impact the VAT accounts

Who are we looking for?

• ACA or ACCA qualified
• Practice trained preferable
• Technical accounting experience essential
• Experience of large Groups, trading globally
• Corporate Tax and VAT experience preferable but not essential
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced excel skills

Competencies:

• The ability to prioritise workload in a fast-moving environment
• Logical thinker with a methodical approach
• Attention to detail and the ability to investigate and resolve issues
• Willingness to learn and become involved across a broad spectrum of tasks

Why work for us?

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.

What’s in it for you?

If working alongside some for the most creative people isn’t enough, we offer you:

Excellent career progression opportunities, 25 days annual leave, Staff discount, 5% pension contribution, company sporting events, smart casual dress code and a brilliant company culture.

What’s next?

Are we the saddle to your bicycle? If so, we would love to hear from you…
Why not stand out from the crowd and send us your wiggly cover letter to give us a better idea of who you are and why you want to join the team…

#ComeJoinTheRide

Title: Customer Acquisition and Channel Development Manager

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Wiggle CRC are looking for an experienced Customer Acquisition and Channel Development Manager to join the Marketing team on a permanent basis! Fancy taking on the challenge? Please read on…

What will I be doing?

You will be responsible for leading customer acquisition and new channel development for the WiggleCRC group.  You will be responsible for developing customer acquisition strategy, leading in-house channel management and innovation and managing a team to drive new customer acquisition.

You will also be :

• Developing new digital channels for customer acquisition.
• Developing new off-line channels for customer acquisition.
• Planning and implementation of acquisition campaigns, optimising campaigns through data analysis and A/B testing, and the identification and development new channel opportunities that are ready to be scaled.
• Manage channel development and cover (but not be limited to) YouTube, Google Display Network, other programmatic ad networks, publisher networks, social platforms, content development, press, print and partnership opportunities.
• Delivering channel performance: Building team capabilities, processes and systems for management control that develop and deliver Wiggle CRC channel performance.
• Identifying and capturing growth opportunities: Working with Marketing and Commercial teams to identify growth opportunities at brand, territory and channel level, through deep customer and channel understanding.  Develop a robust testing approach to enable continuous iteration and improvement.

What experience would we like you to have?

• Experience of leading successful teams.
• Customer growth through established acquisition channels (e.g. Facebook).
• Development of new acquisition channels through a test and learn approach.
• 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 the perfect next challenge for you? Great! Please apply now by sending your CV to jobs@wiggle.com 

#comejointheride 

WiggleCRC are looking for a Creative Videographer to join the team on a permanent basis in Portsmouth

What will you be doing?

Working closely with our social media team the Videographer will produce creative, engaging and relevant video content for use across a wide range of media, for the Wiggle retail brand. Working closely with stakeholders across the wider business, the successful candidate will engage with teams and individuals to produce this in keeping with the overall Integrated Marketing Plan.

Accountabilities:

• Planning, creating storyboards and organising product to be used
• Filming and editing material for use across Wiggle channels
• Being the champion for video content and generating new ideas on how to boost views and engagement with it
• Managing the You Tube channel
• Creating creative, engaging and relevant video content that our customers will love
• Working closely with other stakeholders such as the Brand Content Executive, Creative Lead and Category Marketing teams

Who are we looking for?

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Degree in a relevant subject (Media, Film etc)
• Experience of setting up and operating cameras and sound equipment
• A good understanding of setting up lighting for filming
• A good understanding of what’s needed to set up a small video studio
• Experienced in Adobe Premier Pro, After Effects or similar software, plus Adobe Suite (Photoshop etc)

• A passion for cycling and / or tri sports would be a distinct advantage
• Stills photography experience preferred but not essential

Competencies:

• Quick-thinking, and adaptable
• Capability to think and act globally
• Pro-active self-starter able to work with a degree of ambiguity
• Confident decision maker
• Ability to re-prioritise to get the job done
• Ability to handle multiple workloads simultaneously and perform under pressure
• Ability to be flexible with work duties and hours as required by the team and business, and able to attend other sites for which travel may be required.

Why work for us?

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.

What’s in it for you?

If working alongside some for the most creative people isn’t enough, we offer you:

Excellent career progression opportunities, 25 days annual leave, Staff discount, 5% pension contribution, company sporting events, smart casual dress code and a brilliant company culture.

What’s next?

Is this the job for you? If so, we would love to hear from you…
Why not stand out from the crowd and send us your wiggly cover letter to give us a better idea of who you are and why you want to join the team…

#ComeJoinTheRide

Job Title: Change Analyst

Location: Portsmouth

Position type: Full Time Permanent

WiggleCRC have an exciting opportunity for an Change Analyst to join the team.

What will you be doing?

Support the Change and Release Manager in the maintenance of Change, Release and Service Introduction processes ensuring efficient and prompt handling of change, coordination of releases and effective handover of projects into IT Service Operations.

Responsibilities

• Receive, record, categorise and distribute Change Controls and arrange for authorisation or rejection within agreed timescales and at appropriate level of authority
• Manage and distribute the Forward Schedule of Change and ensure all parties receive the maximum period of notice of any down time
• Review all implemented RFCs to ensure that objectives have been met
• Deputise for the Change and Release Manager as authority on Change
• Support the WiggleCRC Release Management process ensuring all releases are appropriately scheduled, tested and planned
• Ensure appropriate level of testing has been successfully completed to assure the release is fit for use
• Use appropriate tools to track all releases through the SDLC
• Ensure the correct resource is available and informed for all releases
• Create and distribute appropriate business and technical communications for all releases
• Generate and distribute release documentation
• Work with third party support teams to schedule requested and required releases into live environments
• Ensure early engagement with project teams for all small and medium sized projects to assist in planning for what is required to transition into the live environment

Who are we looking for?

• Knowledge of ITIL Process Framework
• Some experience of Service Delivery Tools
• Ability to prioritise work and deliver to deadlines
• Analytical skills
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills are essential as are strong stakeholder management skills.

• A commitment to quality and a thorough approach to work.
• Negotiation skills
• Enthusiastic and driven to self-improve
• Relationship building and experience in collaborating for business success

WiggleCRC have an exciting opportunity for an analyst to join the ride in Portsmouth.

What will you be doing?

To work with all the WiggleCRC Merchandising and Replenishment teams to achieve higher availability and increased inventory turn through automated ordering. You will support the Group Central Merchandising Manager in delivering effective Automated Ordering by working closely with all the other B&M teams.

Responsibilities

• Producing high quality forecast analysis, communicating findings and insight to internal teams that drives actions and quantifiable business outcomes
• Ensuring SO99+ contains all the business planning inputs such as new product information and promotions for relevant products
• Analysing the past performance of promotions to enhance the modelling of future ones in SO99+
• Collaborating with the Replenishment Teams to conduct root cause analysis on Availability, Overstocks and Understocks driven by Forecast Accuracy and Supplier Fulfilment rates
• Optimising current processes and suggesting new approaches to meeting business needs
• Carrying out ad-hoc analytics exercises for business planning
• Communicates and coaches replenishment and merchandising teams on automated ordering

Who are we looking for?

• Advanced MS Excel skills including lookups and pivot tables
• Understands and can explain the principles of root cause analysis
• Working knowledge of forecasting and supply chain principles, specifically lead times, safety stock and OTIF
• Working knowledge of supply chain planning analytical tools
• Analytical individual that is very comfortable working with large volumes of numerical data
• Independently solves problems and develops new ways of working in systematic and logical way
• Able to balance multiple tasks and prioritize competing demands accordingly in a fast-changing environment
• Detail-oriented individual that is careful and thorough in accomplishing tasks
• Must possess strong collaborative, interpersonal and communication skills to effectively work across functions and deploy improvements as part of a team

Why work for us?

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.

What’s in it for you?

If working alongside some for the most creative people isn’t enough, we offer you:

Excellent career progression opportunities, 25 days annual leave, Staff discount, 5% pension contribution, company sporting events, smart casual dress code and a brilliant company culture.

What’s next?

Is this the job for you? If so, we would love to hear from you…
Why not stand out from the crowd and send us your wiggly cover letter to give us a better idea of who you are and why you want to join the team…

#ComeJoinTheRide

Job Title: Support Analyst Developer

Location: Portsmouth

Position type: Full time, permanent

WiggleCRC have an exciting opportunity for a Support Analyst Developer to join the team in Portsmouth.

What will you be doing?

You will be part of the IT department, reporting to the App Support Lead. You will have regular interaction with all areas of the business including the Front and Back End development teams, Production Services, Customer Services, Finance, Marketing.

You will be dealing with tickets relating to production issues that can be raised from anywhere in the business, including IT itself. You will be performing code changes or escalating it to one of the development teams.

Responsibilities

• Technical problem solving and root cause analysis.
• Ability to understand the ‘whole’ problem and search for permanent fix rather than repeated patching.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to communication issues and propose solution to colleagues
• A desire to move his career into software development
• Awareness and compliance with the in-house development and architectural standards.

Who are we looking for?

• SQL Server 2012+ - relational database understanding, stored procedures and tables.
• C# .NET (Visual Studio 2017+)
• Technical problem solving and root cause analysis.
• Ability to understand the ‘whole’ problem and search for permanent fix rather than repeated patching.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to communication issues and propose solution to colleagues
• A desire to move his career into software development
• Awareness and compliance with the in-house development and architectural standards.

Desirable

• Queueing technology such as MSMQ, NServiceBus, or RabbitMQ.
• MVC and web principles.
• SQL Server SSIS
• Jira & Confluence
• TeamCity & Octopus
• Azure
• Delphi
• Interbase

Title: Senior Systems Administrator

Location: Portsmouth

Position: Full Time, permanent

WiggleCRC are looking for a Senior Systems Administrator to join the IT team on permanent basis. You will be involved in exciting project work, designing and delivering new technologies and platforms to WiggleCRC.

Fancy taking on the challenge? Great, please read on…

What will I be doing?

This role is a key position in the Production Services Team and involves taking a proactive stance in supporting the Wiggle business in the maintenance and upkeep of existing IT Infrastructure, IT Equipment and Telecoms services.

You will also:

• Fulfil a senior role in the Production Services team, providing support and knowledge-transfer to colleagues in their daily work and activities.
• Provide proactive day to day support and administration for all infrastructure and services, including servers, storage and networks.
• Manage incidents, service requests and change for Production Services team.
• Manage, tracking and trouble-shooting issues, change controls and live fault escalations.
• Maintain a high level of availability of services and minimising the risk of exposure to system downtime through continual monitoring of key systems.
• Improve process development, documentation and knowledge dissemination.
• Liaise closely with internal/external contacts to monitor and maintain current infrastructure while driving new technical projects forward.

What experience would we like you to have?

• TCP/IP networking LAN/WAN (DNS, DHCP, RAS, VPN) MPLS.
• Virtualization concepts and functional working skills with various virtualization technologies such as VMware and Cloud-based technology, such as Azure, AWS, GCP.Strong understanding of load balancers & WAFs such as Netscaler, Zen load balancer and load balancer.org, Big IP F5s.
• Wintel operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 / 2008 r2 / 2012 / 2016
• Experience and knowledge of supporting and maintaining an enterprise network, including load balancers, firewalls, VPN, Cisco routers and switches and F5 WAFs.
• Authentication and directory services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, GPO management)
• Windows automation (scripting, imaging, installation, management)
• Shared storage concepts and functional working skills with various shared storage technologies (provisioning LUNs, expanding volumes, configuring RAID, etc.) on Dell/EMC and HP Nimble arrays.
• Advanced knowledge of monitoring using appropriate tools for example Solarwinds, New Relic using SNMPv3 / SNMPv2 / WMI protocols.

Wiggle CRC are looking for a Business Analyst to analyse, design and document solutions to meet the needs of business objectives. Fancy taking on the challenge? Great! Please read on…

What will you be doing?

As a Business Analyst, you will analyze, design and document solutions to meet the business objectives, support the in-house and remote development teams in the delivery of the solution and coordinate UAT and business-readiness tasks.

Although you will be required to work in all aspects of the business, this role should have specific understanding of finance processes and Oracle Financial applications would be a benefit.

Context:

As part of the Delivery team you will engage in delivery of both strategic and small change to the Wiggle systems. The scope of work incorporates all infrastructure, Applications and customer-facing websites.

Accountabilities:

• Work with business teams to identify, understand, prioritise and document business requirements, systems impacts and acceptance criteria.  Collate and analyse performance data to ensure informed decisions.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
• Works iteratively with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
• Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organisation.
• Support the development team to write scenarios / user stories / acceptance tests, agree work packages / sprints and produce estimates.
• Identify any business readiness tasks required to support delivery.
• Verify and accept the delivered work packages ensuring the development fulfils the business requirements.  Provide support to the test team and business teams to complete functional and acceptance testing.
• Prepare the handover of products to the business and support teams through showcases and by documenting any business processes changes and producing user guides.
• Track and report on task progress.

Who are we looking for?

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrate experience of working in a Business Analyst role, preferably within the retail industry, specifically ecommerce channels.
• Experience of working within an Agile / Scrum project environment.

Finance Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• You will have a good understanding of ERP systems from a finance perspective
  • Specific knowledge and experience of Oracle Cloud Financial applications will be desirable
• You will have a good understanding of the underlaying finance business process in the areas:
  • Payment Gateway / Cash Management & Treasury
  • Accounts Payable
  • General Ledger
  • Stock Ledger

Competencies:

• You will be able to communicate well with both the technical and business teams supporting them to develop a ubiquitous language, and be able to encourage active dialogue between the development team and business users;
• Business process re-engineering – the ability to using various modelling techniques in order to modify and improve business processes in line with change;
• IT Fluency – ability to understand interconnectivity and relationships between the tools and system architecture and information architecture of the business.

Why work for us?

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.

What’s in it for you?

If working alongside some for the most creative people isn’t enough, we offer you:

Excellent career progression opportunities, 25 days annual leave, Staff discount, 5% pension contribution, company sporting events, smart casual dress code and a brilliant company culture.

What’s next?

Is this the job for you? If so, we would love to hear from you…
Why not stand out from the crowd and send us your wiggly cover letter to give us a better idea of who you are and why you want to join the team…

#ComeJoinTheRide

Are you a native level speaker in Swedish looking for your next Marketing move? If so, please read on.

What will you be doing?

The aim and purpose of the Role:

The Online Marketing Manager is a key role in driving the growth of Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles websites across the Nordic countries, with a focus on Sweden. 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 channels, including Organic, Paid Search, Google Shopping, Affiliates, Social and Remarketing.   

Context:

The Online Marketing Manager, Sweden reports into the Europe Online Marketing Manager and is key in the creation and execution of a Nordic localised online marketing plan to deliver ambitious growth targets across WiggleCRC websites. This role requires a close working relationship with other Online Marketing teams as well as other internal departments (Country Managers, Translation and Customer Services).                  

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Create, own and deliver an online marketing plan for the Nordic countries
• Maximise sales and profitability
• Grow market share in the tri sports market
• Execute paid search, affiliate and display campaigns for WiggleCRC
• Work with Country Managers and Translation team to ensure traffic generating opportunities are maximised
• Develop and optimise affiliate program
• Identify new third party partners to increase external visibility of Wiggle content
• Leverage placement buying efficiencies across the group
• Regular analysis of campaign performance
• Close working relationship with WiggleCRC subject experts to ensure latest technologies and best practices are adopted
• Identify opportunities to achieve revenue growth targets
• Own content plan to help grow organic traffic
• Other work as required by the team

Who are we looking for?

• Native level Swedish speaker required
• Excellent communicator in English required
• Written / spoken language skills for another Nordic language an advantage
• 1+ year paid search experience
• Experience in using Online Marketing platforms (such Google Analytics, Google Adwords)
• Basic understand of how search engines work and interact with websites
• Some experience of bid management tools a plus
• Retail or e-commerce experience desirable  
• An interest and knowledge in tri-sports are also desirable
• Be able to work effectively with minimal direction
• Ability to multi task across a number of channels and projects

Why work for us?

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.

What’s in it for you?

If working alongside some for the most creative people isn’t enough, we offer you:

Excellent career progression opportunities, 25 days annual leave, Staff discount, 5% pension contribution, company sporting events, smart casual dress code and a brilliant company culture.

What’s next?

Is this the job for you? If so, we would love to hear from you…
Why not stand out from the crowd and send us your wiggly cover letter to give us a better idea of who you are and why you want to join the team…

#ComeJoinTheRide

Job Title: Lead Senior Front End Developer

Location: Portsmouth

Position type: Permanent

Wiggle CRC are looking for a Senior Developer with strong leadership skills to join the IT team. Fancy taking on the challenge? Please read on….

What will you be doing?

As a Senior Developer you will design, create, test and document new and existing software components from supplied specifications. Project change may require the introduction of new Wiggle systems, enhancements to existing systems and integration with 3rd party systems.  You will lead a small squad of 3-4 developers within the front end development team.

Who are we looking for?

• Experience of leading development teams to deliver software change and being responsible for delivery of collaborative package of work
• Development frameworks: Microsoft .Net 4.x with C#
• Web Technologies: Microsoft Asp.Net MVC 5, HTML5 and CSS, JavaScript and frameworks
• Testing Frameworks: NUnit, Moq or equivalent
• Data & SOA: Microsoft SQL Server 2012+,
• Industry experience of using best practices for code design (SOLID, design patterns) 
• Awareness of API first design on platforms such as Mulesoft
• Experience of developing on Azure PaaS would be beneficial
• Competent in working in an agile environment, for example Scrum
• Previous experience of working in a retail or eCommerce business on customer facing or back office systems would be advantageous