Retail Professional

Help us move the world out of cars and onto bikes!

- Help keep Wellington’s coolest little bike store and cafe humming

- Spend every day surrounded by beautiful bicycles

- Enrich people’s lives as the great migration from cars to bicycles continues!

Hello. How are you today? Is there anything we can help you with? Perhaps the opportunity to care for Wellington’s bicycle-curious as they explore our range of the world’s most useful and well designed rides. Or working with the good people at brands like Linus, Surly, Specialized, Riese & Muller, Tern and Brompton to stock and market all their goodies. Or just enjoying being part of a small, bike-obsessed team, whistling while we work in our cozy, bright store, fuelled by free espresso and generous discounts that enable us to build our own dream cycle projects. 

If ‘bike love’ is virtually bursting from your body, let that enthusiasm motivate the world around you. Show this city how much fun can be had living life by bicycle!

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Guiding customers to the right bike to suit their lives
• Managing customer fulfilment process from pre-order to collection
• Dispatch of online orders and upkeep of web-shop
• Checking in/out bicycles for repair
• Procurement and management of stock levels

Skills and experience:

• Be able relate to a wide range of customers with enthusiasm and authenticity
• Be passionate about riding bikes, especially for transport.
• Be detail oriented with a good head for systems
• Be digitally capable

Benefits:

• First bike shop in NZ to be a Living Wage Employer
• Generous staff discounts on all our products
• Closed all Sundays and Public Holidays (and Black Friday)
• Small, enthusiastic and dedicated team to work with.
• Peoples Coffee!

The ideal candidate for this role would be a retail professional with a strong knowledge of the technical side of bicycles, but the most important attributes are enthusiasm for cycling, and an ability to relate and sell with empathy, integrity and enthusiasm. Essential also will be the maturity and worldly experience to assist people of all ages and backgrounds with a variety of bike lifestyle needs. Decent wine could easily be used to persuade our friendly and knowledgeable team to spend extra time teaching the technical aspects to a sales or hospitality star wishing to transition.

Hours are Tuesday to Saturday. 40 hrs per week. This is a permanent full-time role. No seasonal applicants will be considered.

Sound good? Proverbially ‘get on yer bike’ and get in touch!