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Becoming a part of Angling Active's team is an opportunity to immerse yourself in a passion for fishing while contributing to a dynamic retail environment!


Although there are currently no open positions, if you're someone who loves spending time by the water, understands the thrill of the catch and has an interest in retail, we encourage you to reach out to us.


At Angling Active, we value enthusiasm and dedication, making every effort to connect with individuals who share our love for fishing and commitment to exceptional customer service. Feel free to get in touch with us, send in your CV and explore how you can be a part of our team!

Join Our Team


Becoming a part of Angling Active's team is an opportunity to immerse yourself in a passion for fishing while contributing to a dynamic retail environment!


We have a few positions opening in our store and if you're someone who loves spending time by the water, understands the thrill of the catch and has an interest in retail, we encourage you to reach out to us.


At Angling Active, we value enthusiasm and dedication, making every effort to connect with individuals who share our love for fishing and commitment to exceptional customer service.


Feel free to get in touch with us, send in your CV and explore how you can be a part of our team!



Full Time Fishing Sales Advisor


We are looking for an experienced angler to join our retail store.


Our shop floor is a fast paced environment! We are looking for an individual that thrives on multitasking and has a keen eye for detail as well as exceptional customer service skills.


In this role you will assist in-store customers with an enthusiastic attitude and help with their needs, using your knowledge and expertise to enhance their customer experience. With a positive can-do approach to tasks which range from ensuring efficient stock replenishment and general housekeeping procedures and team work.


This role is a specialist position and requires extensive knowledge of fishing therefore we cannot consider any applications without this.


Previous experience in a customer facing role and angling knowledge is essential.


Responsibilities:
  • Welcome customers to the store, assist with locating items and answer their queries
  • Work as part of the sales team to achieve store and merchandising objectives
  • Operating tills and accurately process payments
  • Self motivated to maintain high standards
  • Supporting and getting involved in day to day activities as and when required
  • Communicate effectively with line management and other departments
  • Ensure check lists are being actioned
  • Processing permits
  • Reviewing the shop floor sales area (daily)
  • Answer telephone calls and help with queries
  • Uphold excellent housekeeping at all times
  • Help with rolling stock checks

Skills:
  • All round angling knowledge
  • Basic computer knowledge
  • Numeracy
  • Excellent communication
  • Team working
  • Organisational Skills & Resourcefulness

Benefits:
  • Company pension
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • On-site gym
  • Staff birthday rewards
  • Staff fishing training days

Expected hours: 38/40 per week over 5 days


Mail Order / Website Order Operative


Join the team at Angling Active! A well-established eCommerce business, specialising in fishing tackle and based in the heart of Stirling, Central Scotland.


Become a vital part of a fast-paced, growing company dedicated to delivering exceptional service to our customers. In this role, you’ll work with a passionate team to pick, pack and dispatch orders, ensuring each parcel meets our high standards for speed and accuracy.


This role entails working at a fast tempo and to a deadline to ensure all our orders are processed correctly and leave the shop on time for dispatch. We also require the candidate to be able to work effectively under pressure and have a great attention to detail.


Previous order picking and packing experience is a plus! But what’s essential is strong English and numeracy skills, a keen eye for detail and fishing knowledge. Being able to have an understanding of what our products are, helps ensure picking and packing the right item is done properly.


This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Angling Active’s growth, in a role where your precision and dedication will be valued daily.



Full training in mail order will be provided.


We require the ideal candidate to:
  • Be enthusiastic and positive
  • Processing order experience/eCommerce or warehouse packing experience is an advantage
  • Good English and numeracy skills
  • Be competent in the use of computers
  • Have a keen eye for detail
  • Fishing knowledge is essential

Benefits:
  • Company pension
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • On-site gym
  • Staff birthday rewards
  • Staff fishing training days

Expected hours: between 38-40 per week over 5 days


Office Admin - Fishing Advisor


We are looking for an angling enthusiast to join our office team!


Having a good knowledge of fishing and being an avid angler is an absolute must to be considered for this role.


We are looking for an individual who has a keen eye for detail, good literacy and computer skills who can confidently speak with our customers over the telephone, offering advice, helping with mail order enquiries and processing payments. Our ideal candidate should be able to communicate effectively to customers and staff via email, work well within a small team and be able to organise their work load efficiently.


Amongst these customer service based tasks, the main area of the role involves adding and updating products to our website, taking time to research each product and develop an interesting, factual and natural product listing that helps visitors make an educated purchase decision. Training will be given on our to use our e-commerce platform and guidance provided on how this will help enhance our company’s web presence.


Responsibilities:

  • Generate e-commerce website content
  • Improve and update existing web content
  • Work to build traffic and sales via our website
  • Write product descriptions
  • Edit product images
  • Provide sales assistance to customers via email and telephone
  • Answer incoming calls and process customer orders

Skills:

  • Keen attention to detail
  • Excellent written/oral communication, including impeccable grammar
  • Higher English or a similar qualification is essential
  • Efficient and hardworking
  • Excellent computer literacy
  • Strong commitment to customer service
  • Confidence
  • An understanding of digital content and its impact on a company’s web presence would be an advantage
  • The ability to manage your own time and workload effectively
  • Angling experience would be highly advantageous
  • An understanding of HTML and Photoshop is desirable

  • Benefits:
    • Company pension
    • Employee discount
    • On-site parking
    • On-site gym
    • Staff birthday rewards
    • Staff fishing training days

    Expected hours: 38/40 per week over 5 days


Mail Order / Website Order Operative


Join the team at Angling Active! A well-established eCommerce business, specialising in fishing tackle and based in the heart of Stirling, Central Scotland.


Become a vital part of a fast-paced, growing company dedicated to delivering exceptional service to our customers. In this role, you’ll work with a passionate team to pick, pack and dispatch orders, ensuring each parcel meets our high standards for speed and accuracy.


This role entails working at a fast tempo and to a deadline to ensure all our orders are processed correctly and leave the shop on time for dispatch. We also require the candidate to be able to work effectively under pressure and have a great attention to detail.


Previous order picking and packing experience is a plus! But what’s essential is strong English and numeracy skills, a keen eye for detail and fishing knowledge. Being able to have an understanding of what our products are, helps ensure picking and packing the right item is done properly.


This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Angling Active’s growth, in a role where your precision and dedication will be valued daily.



Full training in mail order will be provided.


We require the ideal candidate to:
  • Be enthusiastic and positive
  • Processing order experience/eCommerce or warehouse packing experience is an advantage
  • Good English and numeracy skills
  • Be competent in the use of computers
  • Have a keen eye for detail
  • Fishing knowledge is essential

Benefits:
  • Company pension
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • On-site gym
  • Staff birthday rewards
  • Staff fishing training days

Expected hours: between 38-40 per week over 5 days



All of our roles are in-person at Angling Active, Agricultural Centre, Stirling, FK9 4RN.


All applications are to be directed to the Hiring Manager by email only, please apply by sending an email with a covering letter and C.V. to cv@anglingactive.co.uk



At Angling Active, we recognise that talented people are our most important asset. An ever growing and successful business established as a small father & son outfit in 1999, we are now a large team with a powerful and enviable skill-set leading the way in the recreational angling industry throughout the UK and Internationally.


With Angling Active’s business growth comes increasing investment in the people within it, and thus a genuine sense of pride within our core values is recognised amongst us and by our customers.


Our team handles every aspect of retail internally where possible. Key to this is our range of talent:
  • The knowledgeable in store sales team are ready to welcome everyone that walks in the door and establish exactly what that customer wants from his or her visit. Training schedules maximise our ability to provide credible advice and product suggestions to the already knowledgeable customer. We pride ourselves on providing the best customer service available in the angling retail industry in a relaxed and non-pressurised manner.

  • Behind the scenes we have our own, in-house dedicated team of web developers and content editors maintaining our e-commerce website. This is populated with unique and creative content and supported by marketing and media materials that are constantly produced by us, inspired by UK events, seasons and our customers.

  • The sophisticated store room has state of the art systems in place and managed full time to manipulate the huge number of incoming product deliveries into our formula of procedures and systems.

  • The phones and email help desk are managed by dedicated and fully trained representatives that continue the experience-driven service we offer across the business.

  • Lastly, the order dispatch team is committed to providing immediate turn-around of our distance sales, accurately and professionally packed and dispatched to UK and international locations.

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