Fitness Manager

Fitness Manager

Duties/Pligte
- Actively driving, motivating, and managing the fitness instructors to reach individual and team goals on a weekly and monthly basis.
- Ensuring that monthly shift rosters are developed and communicated to the fitness team.
- Ensuring that all fitness instructors are suitably qualified (fitness qualification, AED/ CPR).
- Providing leadership and management to all staff in the gymnasium, especially in your role as Head of the Department.
- Preparing monthly and/or weekly reports regarding new member assessments / inductions / programme prescriptions.
- Ensuring that effective training and development plans are in place for all fitness instructors.
- Actively assisting in the recruitment, selection,





and placement of fitness instructors.
- Ensuring that Standard Operating Procedures (SOP¿s) are developed, established, and implemented within the fitness department at the gymnasium.
- Completing, overseeing and managing basic fitness assessments (blood pressure, height, weight, BMI calculations, girth measurements, circumferences, and body fat percentage measurements).
- Advising all members on the appropriate training techniques and programme options depending on individual needs.
- Actively prescribing, overseeing and managing training programmeprescriptions for various population groups.
- The ability to provide exercise alternatives where needed.
- Willingness and the ability to teach various exercises to music / floor-based exercise classes if needed.
- Effectively managing the fitness team¿s monthly remuneration budgets.
- Establishing an effective and positive supply chain management system with key suppliers to the gymnasium.






- Proactively dealing with all member queries related to the fitness department in a timeous manner.
- Pro-actively communicating all equipment breakdowns to the maintenance department in a timeous manner.
- Ensuring that all customer queries, complaints and compliments are resolved timeously.
- Assisting the General Manager with any other ad hoc projects.
- Being part of the senior management team of the gymnasium as Head of Department and Manager on Duty.

Job Requirements/Pos Vereistes
- Relevant qualification in sport / health / fitness / group exercise is essential.
- The ability to successfully transfer knowledge and skills to the fitness team.
- Computer literate (Microsoft Windows).
- Excellent planning, administrative, organisational and problem-solving skills.






- Passion for the sports / health / fitness industry.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to thrive in a team within a diverse work environment.
- Good conflict management skills.
- Must be willing to work after hours and weekends.

Recommendation/Aanbeveling
- Fitness industry-related experience.
- Previous experience in managing a diverse team will be a distinct advantage.
- A qualification in management or business management will be seen as an advantage.

▶️ Fitness Manager
🖊️ Stellenbosch University
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