General Manager
Full Time • Mansfield
Responsive recruiter
Benefits:
- Bonus based on performance
- Competitive salary
- Employee discounts
- Free uniforms
- Paid time off
GENERAL MANAGER - The Little Gym of Arlington/Mansfield
About Us: The Little Gym is a premier children's fitness and development center serving families in Arlington/Mansfield since 2013. We provide quality programming for children ages 4 months-12 years through gymnastics, sports skills, dance, camps, and birthday parties.
Join Our Leadership Team! We're seeking a driven leader who thrives on challenges and excels in a fast-paced environment. If you're ready to hustle, make an impact, and grow a business, this exciting opportunity is for you!
Position Overview: The General Manager is a full-time, career-level leadership position responsible for overseeing operations, building a high-performing team, driving sales growth, and ensuring world-class customer experiences.
This is NOT a teaching position - you'll manage the business while our talented instructors work with children. This is a highly visible, lobby-based role. Our GM desk is in the open gym lobby — parents and children are present at all times. In a typical shift you are simultaneously greeting new families, conducting enrollment consultations, handling phone and in-person customer concerns, monitoring class quality, and leading your team — all in a public, fast-paced environment. If you do your best work behind the scenes, this is not the right fit. If you are energized by being the most visible, most trusted person in the room, we want to hear from you.
Essential Job Functions:
About Us: The Little Gym is a premier children's fitness and development center serving families in Arlington/Mansfield since 2013. We provide quality programming for children ages 4 months-12 years through gymnastics, sports skills, dance, camps, and birthday parties.
Join Our Leadership Team! We're seeking a driven leader who thrives on challenges and excels in a fast-paced environment. If you're ready to hustle, make an impact, and grow a business, this exciting opportunity is for you!
Position Overview: The General Manager is a full-time, career-level leadership position responsible for overseeing operations, building a high-performing team, driving sales growth, and ensuring world-class customer experiences.
This is NOT a teaching position - you'll manage the business while our talented instructors work with children. This is a highly visible, lobby-based role. Our GM desk is in the open gym lobby — parents and children are present at all times. In a typical shift you are simultaneously greeting new families, conducting enrollment consultations, handling phone and in-person customer concerns, monitoring class quality, and leading your team — all in a public, fast-paced environment. If you do your best work behind the scenes, this is not the right fit. If you are energized by being the most visible, most trusted person in the room, we want to hear from you.
Essential Job Functions:
- Manage and develop a team of 10-12 team members through effective recruitment, training, development, and recognition
- Oversee daily operations including scheduling, front desk, customer service, and facility management
- Convert and nurture leads to drive new member enrollment through in-store consultations and local community events
- Oversee member retention and accounts receivable
- Cultivate relationships with prospective and current families to drive enrollment and long-term retention
- Ensure outstanding customer service and member experiences, setting the standard for your team
- Manage administrative tasks including attendance tracking, inventory, and reporting
- Develop community partnerships as a key representative of The Little Gym
- Ensure compliance with franchise standards and safety protocols
- Coordinate birthday parties, camps, and special events
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You'd Fit in Here If You:
- Embrace a "can-do" attitude and thrive on hard work
- Have 5+ years management experience in retail, service, hospitality, or fitness
- Successfully led teams and driven sales results in previous roles
- Connect well with families and maintain a consistently positive demeanor
- Demonstrate natural leadership qualities and entrepreneurial spirit
- Are organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
- Balance fun with a strong work ethic
- Are flexible with scheduling: 6 days per week including Saturdays (our busiest day) and occasional evenings
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Preferred:
- Experience in children's programs, fitness, or education
- Familiarity with franchise operations
- Familiarity with Salesforce Program
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Why You'll Love Us:
- Opportunity to grow the business - perfect for entrepreneurial spirits
- Make a daily impact on children's confidence and development
- Join a supportive leadership team and global family dedicated to child development
- Foster lasting relationships in the community
- Competitive salary: $48,000-$55,000 based on experience
- Performance-based bonus incentives
- Health insurance reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Employee discounts
- Free uniforms
- To Apply: Submit resume! We're looking to fill this position quickly for a March start.
Compensation: $48,000.00 - $55,000.00 per year
When you work somewhere this fun, it doesn’t even feel like a job.
Want to wake up excited to go to work every morning, confident that you’re making a difference while having a blast? You’ve come to the right place. The Little Gym is the world’s premier enrichment and physical development center for children ages 4 months through 12 years. Programs offer children a Springboard to Life’s Adventures by using movement-based learning and imaginative play to help build the confidence and skills needed at each stage of childhood.
For over 40 years, our trained instructors have nurtured happy, confident kids through parent/child classes, gymnastics, dance and sports prep, plus enjoyable extras like camps, Parentsʼ Survival Nights and Awesome Birthday Bash parties. As a part of The Little Gym team, you will be part of a family dedicated to the growth and development of children all over the globe. We are looking for fun, outgoing, talented individuals who are looking to make a difference in their community. If this sounds like you, check out our open positions!
All associated locations are independently owned and operated by a franchisee. Your application will go directly to the franchise, and all hiring decisions will be made by the management of that franchise. All inquiries about employment at this franchise should be made directly to the franchisee, and not to The Little Gym Franchising Corporate.
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You will make a difference! Working with children of all ages to help build both confidence and skills is super rewarding.
With plenty of running, jumping, and tumbling, it won't be hard to get your steps in.
You'll feel like a Rockstar in your local grocery store every time you run into a member of your The Little Gym!
You get to wear yoga pants, t-shirt and socks EVERY DAY!