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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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

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Title: Technical Customer Service Advisor – Bike Product Expert

Position type: Permanent Full Time

Do you understand the importance of outstanding customer service?

As a customer service product expert you will be representing Wiggle, assisting and advising customers via Live Chat, Email and Phone with the highest degree of courtesy and professionalism to with the highest degree of courtesy and professionalism to provide detailed product information and recommendations and 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 customers via contact sources of pre-sale, during-sale and after-sale queries related to all products, brands and services.

What hours will I work?

2 Week rotating shift pattern

Week 1:  06:00 – 14:00

Week 2:  14:00 – 22:00

1 in 4 weekends shifts between 10:00 – 18:00

Duties and responsibilities

• Ensure customer queries are answered promptly and completely via both Chat and Email
• Offer technical support on the whole Wiggle product range, with the objective of ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Calling customers when they request a call back service to provide detailed product information and recommendations and resolve 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.
• Monitoring, responding and resolving customer queries on Social media
• Monitoring and responding to customers product reviews and questions across various platforms
• Any other Customer service related task

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Show a sound knowledge of bikes/parts with an eagerness to further advance this knowledge in respect to Tri-sports equipment and products.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal
• 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
• Ability to demonstrate strong communication skills and liaise with all members of the business including Senior Managers and Directors
• Ability to be flexible with work duties and hours as required by the team and business
• Ability to attend other sites for which travel may be required

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

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

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit an experienced Data Analyst to join their innovative and dynamic team based in Portsmouth to help fuel continued growth.

What will you be doing?

• Utilising machine learning abilities to put in place evolving customer segmentation, analytical models, and behavioural predictions to enable the delivery of personalisation across our CRM framework
• Using clustering techniques along with data languages (R or python) on big data sets to identify customer behaviour patterns and profiles
• Working with the Marketing team - use modelling & data analysis expertise to produce actionable insight for weekly and ad-hoc BI.
• Follow outputs through execution; present and explain the method and output and work with wider teams to ensure successful implementation
• Work closely with the Insights and Digital Analytics teams as well as wider teams to understand marketing requirements
• Identify the most suitable model to solve each marketing request.
• Communicate technical thinking to a variety of stakeholders, including the reasons for specific model chosen, the method, output and how this will help to achieve the goal.
• Visualise outputs of models in a digestible form.
• Creation of detailed documentation explaining methods/outputs (e.g. data

Who are we looking for?

• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics or other related field desirable
• 2+ years' experience in statistical analysis and modelling, preferably in the retail sector
• Key experience within, R, Python, SQL and SPSS
• Experience and strong understanding of machine learning & statistical learning and the potential when applied to ecommerce marketing
• Programming languages: R or Python
• Experience in clustering and prediction models
• Analytical experience within the retail sector, working with big data and large volumes of customers
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to excellence
• Practical experience in the dissection of complex disparate data sources
• Experience with commercial metrics and measures

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: Senior Test Analyst

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: Perm

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Senior Test Analyst to join the Team in Portsmouth.

What will you be doing?

As a professional Senior Test Analyst, you will have 6+ years of experience in hands-on test analysis, planning and execution, having started as a junior tester and been in a progressing Test Analyst role throughout.

You will be highly skilled in testing techniques, requirements analysis, testing methodologies and the processes to support them. You will have a broad range of experience testing different technologies, especially around eCommerce, order fulfilment, and high-volume online retail systems.

Responsibilities:

• Senior Test Analyst: Working inside a delivery stream to analyse requirements, author and execute manual tests, run automated regression and manage defects.
• Matrix Resource: Working as the test team representative, embedded within a delivery stream, to promote testing best practice.

Who are we looking for?

• A Proven (6+ years) successful track record working as a Test Analyst and Senior Test Analyst.
• A thorough understanding of the full test lifecycle and the activities required for success at each level.
• Has experience of different test levels, types and methods and can apply the principles of each.
• A broad experience of e-commerce architecture and the integration of front and back end systems and how they manage data.
• Strong experience of end-to-end business process flows for large scale online retailers.
• Able to work successfully in an environment that supports a face pace of change.

Desirable knowledge

• Recent experience working on eCommerce projects 
• An understanding of test automation, preferably with experience of VMWare, C#, Visual Basic, Selenium, SQL & NUnit (or alternative, translatable skills).
• A working knowledge of test case management tools (e.g. Test Rail, TM4J).

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Title: Shipping Customer Service Advisor

Position type: Fixed Term Contract 

As a shipping customer service advisor, you will be representing Wiggle, assisting and advising 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 customers via contact sources of pre-sale, during-sale and after-sale queries related to all products, brands and services.

What hours will I work?

Rotating shift pattern

Week 1, 2 and 3: 08:00 - 16:00

Week 4: 12:00 – 20:00

1 in 4 weekends shifts between 10:00 – 18:00

Duties and responsibilities:

• Ensure customer queries are answered promptly and completely via both Chat and Email
• 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
• 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
• Ability to demonstrate strong communication skills and liaise with all members of the business including Senior Managers and Directors
• Ability to be flexible with work duties and hours as required by the team and business
• Ability to attend other sites for which travel may be required

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit an experienced Technical SEO Strategist to join the team on a permanent basis in Portsmouth. 

What will you be doing?

Reporting directly into the Digital Strategy Manager the Technical SEO Strategist will be expected create and deliver a strong, well aligned technical SEO strategy that promotes the organic search visibility for Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycle websites across 20 international variants. This role establishes, maintains and communicates organic best practice with the purpose of growing organic traffic.

Responsibilities:

• Identify SEO risks and opportunities for the Wiggle and CRC websites.
• Working closely with the ecommerce product owners, UX and UI teams to prioritise, brief tickets and guide IT delivery on opportunities.
• Provide best practice advice for our other smaller sites. (including, but not limited to, Blogs and guides, HUB, Insurance site)
• Ensures organic best practices and search engine guidelines are adopted across the business to maximise organic search visibility.

Accountabilities:

Management of organic performance of Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles (and further as needed) sites in all territories

Ownership of website optimisation plans for both brands, including, but not limited to;

• Website architecture (such as structure, canonicals, href lang)
• Maximising the indexation of core pages (sitemaps, navigation, hierarchy)
• Reduce the volume of duplicate pages across the sites
• Work with wider teams to ensure site speed is within guidelines
• Mobile considerations across all optimisation opportunities

Who are we looking for?

• Excellent communicator
• 3+ years organic experience, preferably in multi-site enterprise role
• Strong analytics skills (experience of using Google Analytics is an advantage)
• Ability to work on and deliver a number of projects at any one time
• Ability to create and deliver marketing plans
• Interest and knowledge on online sports market is desirable
• Be able to work effectively with minimal direction
• Experience of working across multiple SEO tools
• Knowledge of international SEO (experience of working in international SEO is desirable)

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: Apparel Designer

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: Perm

RAF Number: 1310

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit an Apparel Designer to join our own brand team.

What will you be doing?

You will work with the Product Manager and Product Developers to design and manufacture ranges of products in line with brand and range strategy and profit requirements of Wiggle.

You will take an assigned brief and work with all members of the own brand team from product manager to product developer to buyer and merchandiser to ensure products are identified, designed, developed and manufactured to Wiggle’s required standard. Ensuring the products are correctly set up on the website, that the marketing team can create relevant campaigns.

Responsibilities:

·        To design and manufacture innovative and good quality products for our target customer, ensuring maximised profit margins, in line with agreed strategy for each range.

·        To ensure all products are designed within agreed brand guidelines.

·        Present designs in all key sign off meetings and then work with product development team to present samples at all subsequent key sample approval points.

·        Manage individual projects, producing comprehensive CAD packs for factories with supporting documentation & workbooks, ensuring all products are handed over in good time to the Product Development team to ensure ranges are launched on time.

·        Work with factories and partners to develop products in aspects including fit, fabric, trims, ensuring the product works within the agreed pricing, MOQ’s and lead times.

·        Maintain full design records to protect Wiggle copyright and to ensure no conflicts with other designers and competitors.

·        To maintain knowledge in developing markets, technologies and design to ensure Wiggle House Brands remain at the front of product developments.

Who are we looking for?

·        Educated to degree standard in a relevant field

·        Minimum 3 years’ experience with a sportswear brand or a similar role.

·        Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Office skills

Job Title: Software Developer Manager

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: Perm

RAF Number: 1330

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Software Developer Manager to join the team in Portsmouth.

We are about to embark on a new journey with technology at the heart of it. We are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to positively contribute to the success of our business.  You will have the ability to think from a user’s perspective to envisage how the software we develop will enhance the customer experience and support business operations

What will you be doing?

You will be accountable for the creation, integration and maintenance of high-quality bespoke software applications at WiggleCRC.

Responsibilities:

• Acting as the key interface between business stakeholders and the respective development teams allocated to the workstreams, you will be proactive and actively engage and participate in establishing development priorities and milestones.
•  It will be second nature for you to inject ideas, constraints, and awareness of opportunities throughout the process.
• Responsibility will include the recruitment, development and retention of talented software developers, through hiring, mentoring, identification and organisation of training, conducting career development reviews and evolving the team structure.
• Sets policy and standards for solution developments.
• Promotes the benefits of addressing all security issues during solution development and ensures secure development improvement practices.
• Identifies, proposes, and initiates software process improvement activities within the organisation, devising solutions.
• Takes action to exploit opportunities that will have a measurable effect on process effectiveness, with associated benefits to the business.
• Sets local or team-based standards for programming tools and techniques, including security guidelines, and the selection of appropriate development methods.
• Advises on application of standards and methods and ensures compliance.
• Takes technical responsibility for all stages and/or iterations in a software development workstream, providing method specific technical advice and guidance to workstream stakeholders. Assigns work packages, monitors performance and manages change control dynamically, to optimise productivity.
• Provides advice, guidance and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required.

Who are we looking for?

Having experience of managing and developing within legacy technologies, you will enjoy the challenge of overseeing a complex code base, with a passion to want to tackle and work out a way forward with latest technology and approaches. Having responsibility for the development of our software you will want to ensure that delivery, quality and hygiene are maintained to high standards.

The ideal candidate will meet the following criteria:

• 10+ years industry experience
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Track record of managing successful development teams, both onshore and offshore
• Ability to influence others through collaboration in a matrix environment
• Wide ranging knowledge of development and delivery lifecycles including detailed knowledge of scrum, Kanban, waterfall methodologies with an appreciation of when to apply a method.
• Strong understanding and experience of following best practice for code design (design patterns, SOLID principles)
• Extensive experience of developing on relevant technologies, listed below:
• Development frameworks: Microsoft .Net 4.x code base platforms using C#
• Web Technologies: Microsoft MVC 3+, HTML5 and CSS, JavaScript and frameworks
• Distributed messaging: pub/sub frameworks – MSMQ, nServiceBus (or equivalent)
• Service Oriented Architecture: modular design, microservices
• Database: Microsoft SQL Server, No SQL DB's (Raven), ORM's
• Testing Frameworks: NUnit, Moq, MSpec (or equivalent)
• Build & Deploy: Teamcity, Octopus Deploy (or equivalent)
• Previous experience of working in a retail or eCommerce business on customer facing or back office systems would be advantageous
• Industry experience of using best practices for code design (SOLID, design patterns) 

Job Title: Senior Automation Test Analyst

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: Perm

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Senior Automation Test Analyst to join the team in Portsmouth

What will you be doing?

As Senior automation test analyst your primary role is to provide test automation skills within a wider test team, contribution to the growth of the overall automation suite. You will maintain and grow the test automation capabilities by implementing new technologies and ways of working.

You will manage and mentor junior automation testers, implement a vision for test automation, create and maintain metrics for test coverage and growth, and provide best practice guidance within the automation team.

Responsibilities:

• Senior Automation Test Analyst: Manage a team of automation test analysts to develop a system-wide support capability.
• Automation Test Analyst: Working in-team with manual testers to be the expert in the application of test automation.
• Implement and maintain a measure of the % system coverage of all automation tests within 3 months.
• Implement and maintain a method of growing the test automation
• Grow the full automation test suite and the targeted automation suites

Who are we looking for?

• Highly skilled in defining and creating automation frameworks.
• Adept at learning new systems and processes and technically ‘Hands-On’.
• A broad experience of web-oriented technologies and how they support e-commerce platforms.
• Hands-on expertise of test automation, preferably with experience of VMWare, C#, Visual Basic, Selenium Webdriver, SQL & NUnit
• A proven successful track record working as an Automation Team Senior in medium sized teams.
• A deep knowledge of the application of automation test to front and back end systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think in abstract ways to find solutions.
• A natural interest in current automation technologies and keen to implement and experiment.
• A broad experience of e-commerce architecture and the integration of front and back end systems and how they manage data.
• Strong experience of test automation within e-commerce platforms.
• Strong experience of back-office systems and interfaces and how to automate them.
• Experience of reporting from automation tools, for results and system coverage.

Job Title: Test Analyst

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: Permanent

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Test Analyst on a full-time, permanent basis to join the team in Portsmouth

What will you be doing?

You will be a key resource within project teams, offering support and advice at the project design stage and providing hands-on test duties during delivery. Analysing requirements, defining and executing tests and data, contributing to the regression catalogue, raising defects and running automated regression, you will be the arbiter of quality within your workstream.

You will have the technical skills to work within an IT landscape that requires you to self-manage your own test environment needs and identify issues and problem solve where needed.

Responsibilities:

• Test Analyst: Working inside a delivery stream to analyse requirements, author and execute manual tests, run automated regression and manage defects.
• Matrix Resource: Working as the test team representative, embedded within a delivery stream, to promote testing best practice.
• hands-on test duties during delivery.
• Analysing requirements, defining and executing tests and data, contributing to the regression catalogue, raising defects and running automated regression, you will be the arbiter of quality within your workstream.
• self-manage your own test environment needs and identify issues and problem solve where needed.

Who are we looking for?

• The ability to work on their own initiative and successfully self-manage time and tasks.
• Highly skilled in requirements analysis, test case identification, test data definition, defect resolution.
• Adept at learning new systems and processes and technically ‘Hands-On’.
• A broad experience of web-oriented technologies and how they support e-commerce platforms.
• Able to triage and mange incidents and work with the business and IT to resolve issues.
• An understanding of test automation, preferably with experience of VMWare, C#, Visual Basic, Selenium, SQL & NUnit (or alternative, translatable skills).
• Experienced in using JIRA as a ticketing, incident management and workflow tool.
• A working knowledge of test case management tools (e.g. Test Rail, TM4J).
• A thorough understanding of the full test lifecycle and the activities required for success at each level.
• Has experience of different test levels, types and methods and can apply the principles of each.
• A broad experience of e-commerce architecture and the integration of front and back end systems and how they manage data.
• Strong experience of end-to-end business process flows for large scale online retailers.

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive

Title: Customer Service Advisor – French Speaking

Position type: Permanent Full Time

Are you a native level French speaker looking to further your career?

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

What will you 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 French and English customers via contact sources of pre-sale, during-sale and after-sale queries related to all products, brands and services.

What hours will I work?

2 Week rotating shift pattern

Week 1 and 2:  06:00 – 14:00

Week 3 and 4: 14:00 – 22:00

1 in 4 weekends, shifts between 10:00 – 18:00

Duties and responsibilities:

• 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 French 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
• Ability to demonstrate strong communication skills and liaise with all members of the business including Senior Managers and Directors
• Ability to be flexible with work duties and hours as required by the team and business
• Ability to attend other sites for which travel may be required

Job Title: Technical Engineer

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: Perm

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Technical Engineer to join the team in Portsmouth.

What will you be doing?

You will be required to work very closely with individuals within the Cloud & Infrastructure Team. Splitting your time based on priorities with the Environments Lead, Network Engineer and Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer.

You will have a very diverse understanding of Technologies and able to research on the job when there are gaps.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and Monitor a diverse range of server and Network infrastructure.
• Work well within a team, with sense of ownership.
• Able to effectively create and collaborate with others.
• Creation and maintenance of technical documentation.
• Fulfil a technical role in the team, facilitating knowledge-transfer to team-members when experience dictates.
• Configuration automation using any of the following, but not limited to: PowerShell, PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), Ansible, SCCM
• Deployment automation – Azure, VMware, PowerShell, SCCM, Octopus Deploy

Who are we looking for?

• Any experience in supporting and maintaining an e-commerce platform.
• 3+ years of server infrastructure administration.
• 2+ years of experience working with Cloud providers.
• 2+ years of experience with networking fundamentals.
• 3+ years of development experience with systems management and administration automation in CMD, Bash, VBScript, PowerShell, or .NET
• Experience of “DevOps” - integrating automation with a broad set of tools, Jira, Bitbucket, TeamCity and Octopus. If you have exposure to Azure DevOps, this would also be considered beneficial.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, and/or relevant work experience/Qualifications

Job Title: Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: Perm

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to join the team in Portsmouth.

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible in assisting to bridge the gap between IT Operations and Development teams. You  will be expected to design and document new initiative coming from the business and to advise on the technologies to use, if it be Cloud or On-premise.

To seamlessly transition between technologies and platforms, you will be expected to carry out a multitude of different activities, including, but not limited to, design, maintenance and planning.

Responsibilities:

• Working in our engineering team, while also working with the Front and/or Backend development teams to identify and implement the most optimal solutions for the company based on requirements.
• Managing our Azure environment by making policies and setting standards for its use within WiggleCRC.
• Stay current with industry trends, making recommendations as needed to help the company excel.
• Creation and maintenance of technical documentation.
• Orchestrating and automating WiggleCRC’s internal processes.
• Designing and building redundant services in the cloud.
• Employing exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they escalate.
• Using your knowledge of APIs to design RESTful services and integrate them with existing data providers.
• Development of system management, administration and automation routines in Bash, PowerShell or .NET.
• Good understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorisation and security

Who are we looking for?

• Any experience in supporting and maintaining an e-commerce platform.
• Certification as a Cloud Solutions Architect, Cloud Security Certification (Other cloud-related certification also a plus.)
• 5+ Years of Server and Cloud infrastructure administration.
• 5+ Years Working with Microsoft Azure, with some of this time in the area of Serverless components.
• Solid experience of using PowerShell/Azure CLI

Experience with container technologies; Docker, Kubernetes etc

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, and/or relevant work experience/Qualifications.

Job Title: Senior Product Developer

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: Perm

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Senior Developer to join the team in Portsmouth

What will you be doing?

To work with the within the development team and alongside The Development Manager, Product Manager and designers to develop and manufacture ranges of products in line with range strategy and profit requirements of Wiggle. To ensure originality and effectiveness of all products through design and development.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with Design, Development and Merchandising teams to build innovative and world class products for our target customer. You will be responsible for managing the process from design handover through to bulk production / delivery to Warehouse stage.
• Manage supplier performance and relationship against agreed projects and agreed KPI’s
• Liaise between all stakeholders and suppliers over pattern, design translation, specific product details, as well as maintain aesthetics and commercial viability.

• Manage product ranges, ensuring supporting documentation e.g. workbooks, BOMs, sampling & testing of fabric, product wear testing is initiated and completed within agreed critical path and ready for timely launch or presentation at a stage gate meeting.
• Responsible for day to day follow up with factories & supplier on status of prototypes / samples, price updates and bulk production status process, ensuring that key updates, information of divergence or delays swiftly communicated to all stakeholders.

• Ensure all relevant samples are available in good time for sign off meetings and Go/No-Go decisions
• Build and maintain blocks for all silhouettes across the brand.
• Creating and grading size charts, organising and managing fit review meetings with design and communicating fit & construction comments on proto samples, size sets, and approving PP samples to the factories, ensuring standardisation of fit and sizing throughout the brand/s is maintained through the process.
• Support the factory on technical aspects of fabric, trims and fit development by ensuring that all sample garments are properly progressed in line with agreed CP and proven fit for customer's requirements.
• Liaise with Suppliers regarding minimum quantities, lead-times, fabric and trim availability, booking fabric and trims from sampling to bulk production
• Responsible for cost review and cost negotiation to meet target prices and intake margins on ongoing basis, for overall garments and value engineering as development progresses.
• Technically develop and engineer garments to maximise the manufacturing capabilities. Add value to products with technical improvements, detailing or innovative construction techniques.
• With support Development manager, drive research and development of new products, fabric & trim sourcing and development.
• Review customer feedback across site to incorporate in future products. Organise review of faulty/returned products and customer feedback and support development & design team to incorporate it to improve product design, performance and quality.
• Advise marketing team on fit detailing and material specification for ranges.
• Action and manage fabric, trim and product testing.

Who are we looking for?

• 4-5-year experience working as a technical product developer with a Performance outdoor or Tri sport brand working on technical soft goods and a proven background of taking commercially strong products to market.
• Understanding of Performance woven & knit fabrics, waterproof / seam taped constructions, compression wear and knowledge of down fill products etc.
• Knowledge of garment technology, garment construction, factory production procedures, pattern cutting, and grading is essential
• Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Office skills
• Strong negotiation skills and attention to detail with a strive for excellence in delivery 
• Ability to be flexible and travel
• Creative flair

Job Title: Commercial Finance Analyst 

Location: Portsmouth

Position type: Permanent

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Commercial Finance Analyst to join the team in Portsmouth.

What will you be doing?

You will be working across the business to provide timely reporting, insight and analysis to drive better decision making, typically at Senior Management level.

Responsibilities:

·Weekly Trading Pack – responsible for creating and circulating the Weekly Trading Pack and Mini Pack. Manages team outputs from across the business to tight deadlines to ensure it is delivered on time.

·Commercial performance pack – responsible for creating the pack on time and assisting the senior commercial team with further ad hoc analysis.

·Business intelligence super user – key link between the commercial department and data team, being the first to spot and deal with issues and support projects to increase data efficiency.

·Marketing analysis – being a close business partner to the marketing team, supporting with the analysis and appraisal of promotional activity.

·Ad hoc data extraction and analysis as required by the business.

·Digital metrics – support the commercial finance team and wider business by utilising Google Analytics data to provide insight on business problems.

Who are we looking for?

·Comfortable manipulating large data sets

·Proficient user of all Microsoft Office tools

·Retail or other fast paced industry experience desirable

·Exposure to Business Intelligence and data tools

·Previous experience in a finance role desirable but not essential

Qualifications:

·Good academics with a minimum of a 2:1 degree

·Desire to work towards a professional accounting qualification

WiggleCRC are currently recruiting for an enthusiastic Assistant Management Accountant to Join the team in Portsmouth.

What will you be doing?

Reporting to the Head of Finance Business Partnering and Management Accounting, the Assistant Management Accountant has responsibility for assisting in the timely completion of the WiggleCRC month-end process in the area of sales, margin and stock, and subsequent preparation of the monthly balance sheet reconciliations. :

Working within the Finance department at the Portsmouth Head Office, the Assistant Management Accountant will play a pivotal role in the accuracy of the month end accounts and ongoing financial control. The Assistant Management Accountant will work to support the Systems Accountant and Retail Account.

Accountabilities:

• Balance sheet reconciliations for margin related accounts such as Margin Provisions, Manual accruals – COS;
• Weekly reconciliations between trading reports and accounting systems;
• Provide ad-hoc support to the Business Partnering Team and wider Finance department;
• Month end responsibilities for deferred duty, inbound freight, commissions, and other areas;

Who are we looking for?

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• To have started or have the desire to study accountancy qualifications
• Excel skills with experience of reconciling large data sets
• Experience of Retail / FMCG an advantage
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Competencies:

• Confident, self-motivated and organised
• Logical thinker with the ability to investigate and resolve discrepancies
• Problem solving
• The ability to prioritise workload in a fast-moving environment

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…

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Job Title: Junior Product Developer

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: FTC

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Junior Product Developer to join the team in Portsmouth on a fixed Term contract.

What will you be doing?

To work with the within the development team and alongside Development Manager, Product Manager and Designers to design, develop and manufacture ranges of products in line with range strategy and profit requirements of Wiggle. To ensure originality and effectiveness of all products through design and development.

Responsibilities:

• Support Design, Development and Merchandising teams to build innovative and good quality products for our target customer. You will be responsible for adhering to product innovation Critical Path from concept to bulk production / delivery to Warehouse stage.

• Liaise between design team & factories on translation of design packs into detail product packs using PLM system, ensuring design, fit and colour continuity of existing ranges.

• Administration, including inputting detailed product information into the PLM system, ordering of porotypes, raising POs through the PLM system and provide information and resolve problems that arise during /after this process.

• Responsible for day to day follow up with factories & supplier on status of prototypes / samples, price updates and bulk production status process, ensuring that key updates, information of divergence or delays is communicated to all relevant teams.

• Supporting PD / PD Manager in ensuring samples and prototypes for their category are delivered on time for key stage gate meetings.

• Organize fit review meetings with design team and fit models, support development team in measuring and fitting proto samples, sending fit & construction comments to factories, ensuring consistency of fit throughout the protos to size sets, pre-production and shipment samples.

• Administrative support to the PD team, ensuring supporting documentation e.g. workbooks, BOMs, fabric testing, product wear testing etc. is initiated and completed within agreed critical path and ready for presentation at a stage gate meeting.

• Action and organise delivery of marketing samples for new products and colourways each season and prepare material & product information for handover to marketing team
   
• Responsible for reporting on the budget for product development, prototypes and samples to the PD Manger.
   
• With support Development manager, drive research and development of new products, technical improvements, detailing, style or innovation on construction techniques and fabric & trim sourcing and development.
• Maintain an organised fabric and trim library on an ongoing basis.

Who are we looking for?

• Educated to degree standard in a relevant field (Fashion / product design, garment technology or sportswear apparel design)
• Understanding of Performance fabrics, waterproof / seam taped constructions, knowledge of down fill products etc.
• Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Office skills
• Experience working with factories in Far East or Europe will be advantageous
• Understanding of a retail business environment will be beneficial

Job Title: Customer Service Manager

Location:  Portsmouth

Position type: Permanent

WiggleCRC are looking to recruit a Customer Service Manager to join the team in Portsmouth.

What will you be doing?

As the Wiggle Customer Services Manager, and reporting to the group Head of Customer Services, you will lead and deliver the vision and strategy for the Wiggle customer service team.  You will be tasked with delivering KPI’s, which include, customer sentiment, contact volumes and speed of response. You will be required to analyse and present BI, surrounding Wiggle CS performance, and use the same matrix and format as the group CS function for continuality. You will inspire the team to ensure continual engagement and drive to provide industry leading levels of customer service.
 

Responsibilities:

• Understand all aspects of the customer service experience and ensure an industry level of customer services is provided.
• Have a collaborative approach to work, with strong management skills to lead and inspire.
• Have a broad experience and understanding of customer services data to recognise required areas of improvement.
• Be proactive in continually seeking opportunities to improve and develop the current CS offering. 
• Be comfortable in challenging other areas of the organisation which impact the customer offering.

Who are we looking for?

• Previous experience of managing a team in a Customer Service environment.
• Experience in delivering complex cultural and procedural change.
• Demonstrable evidence of strong customer focus.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills.
• The ability to deal professionally with staff at all levels.
• Highly organised and personally productive.
• Positive attitude.
• Approachable.
• Knowledge of cycling products a distinct advantage.