Fitness Club Assistant General Manager – Lead & Grow

Love Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 36,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Love Recruitment International in Dublin is hiring an Assistant General Manager for a brand new opening at a leading gym operator. You will lead a team of Personal Trainers, drive brand standards, and ensure an exceptional member experience.

The role is hands-on across operations, product space, and local commercial initiatives, with clear progression to broader management roles within the network.

Qualifications

• Experience leading fitness teams or managers in a health and fitness setting.
• Proven ability to drive brand standards and member experience.
• Strong commercial focus with events and personal training initiatives.

Responsibilities

• People Management – lead, inspire and develop a team of Personal Trainers.
• Brand & Operations Management – ensure standards come alive for members.
• Product – manage the fitness space with passion and knowledge of the industry.
• Commercial – grow memberships through events and local initiatives.

Skills

People Management

Brand & Operations Management

Product Knowledge

Commercial Awareness

Leadership

Job description

Assistant General Manager in Dublin – Brand New Opening

Amazing Health and Fitness Job Opportunity at the industry's leading gym operator!

€36,412k plus €4k bonuses structure plus 100% of PT income.

This fitness job in Dublin comes with whole host of benefits including the ability to Personal Train to top up your income. Widely considered the best internal development progression and career opportunities in the fitness industry, this fitness job will be the first on the path to a long successful career in the fitness industry.

We are recruiting for a sector leading fitness brand who have gyms all over the UK and are expanding rapidly in Ireland. They provide great pathways to develop your fitness career, firstly through giving opportunities and then with a great learning and development program. There is genuinely a huge amount of fitness industry leading talent to work for and alongside. This is truly a great health and fitness opportunity.

This is a very hands-on management role within the fitness industry and encompasses many areas that can be covered in more detail when you connect with one of our fitness recruitment team. However, the key responsibilities are:

• People Management – Manage, inspire and lead a team of Personal Trainers.

• Brand & Operations Management – the fitness brand is brilliant and alongside your fitness team, it is your job to make sure your club not only attains the required standards and processes but comes ALIVE for its members.

• Product – Yep, you know that big room you are managing, you must believe in it, want to be in it, want to be talking to the people in it. This fitness job requires people with great knowledge of the industry and genuine passion for fitness.

• Commercial – you will need to help the club raise its profile locally with fitness testing and events both corporate and community, ultimately bringing in new memberships. You will also help and lead your fitness team drive other commercial opportunities for your club, such as personal training and secondary spend.

What are we looking for? For you to be successful for this role and what we are looking for are clear. Firstly, you will read the above key requirements and be excited. Secondly a successful candidate for these jobs in fitness typically has:

• A background in leadership within the fitness industry. We are typically looking for someone who has been a Fitness Manager or Supervisor/Leader, Deputy/Assistant Manager or a Duty Manager within the fitness industry. You may also be experienced in a more entry level role but are desperate for that next step and progression.

• If you are from outside the industry this role is still possible but you must completely excel in the areas above and have transferrable examples. You will also ideally be Personal Trainer qualified to level 3.

• You will have energy, personality and ambition for this fitness job. Skillset is vital but this company also recruit the person sat in front of them, meaning personality and character go a long way.

This fitness job can develop significantly and there are considerable examples of this happening consistently over time and all over the country. The next step from this role would be progression to a general manager position and even further than that, a cluster manager position.

Your recruiter for this role is Cam Bridger, Account Director at Love Recruitment and can be contacted simply by applying for this role below. Love Recruitment are a fitness recruitment agency, specialising in hundreds of fitness jobs like these. Cam is a health and fitness recruitment specialist for the whole fitness sector and if keen to considered please ‘apply now’.

We are here to support recruitment in the fitness industry and have produced videos on CV writing, interview preparation, guides to fitness jobs and many more that can be seen on our blogs or on our YouTube channel, click on a couple of examples below to check them out.

Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.

Videos

CV Writing - https://youtu.be/9CWgVTOjIb0

Interview Preparation - https://youtu.be/A4ROFccAkZc

Find many more at - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTNe7cM-amgJSXJfCY6jS8Q/videos

Blogs

Interview Prep - https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/blog/posts/21131-the-definitive-guide-to-an-interview-in-the-fitness-industry-for-your-dream-health-and-fitness-job

Why Work in Fitness - https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/blog/posts/19855-why-work-in-fitness-the-definitive-guide