AddressFirst Impression Assistant
Title: First Impression Assistant
Salary: £27,751 per annum plus company benefits
Contract: Permanent, full time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Shifts: Monday – Friday between the hours of 7:45am and 7pm (rota shift pattern)
Break: 1 hour lunch
Work model: Onsite
Williams Lea seeks a First Impression Assistant to join our team!
Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled business-critical support services to financial, legal and professional services firms.
Sound good so far? Then this is the perfect position for you and you are just the individual that we are looking for!
Purpose of role
The First Impression Assistant is the first point of contact for visitors calling or visiting our client’s office and is a brand ambassador for Williams Lea. Duties include welcoming clients and visitors to the office, handling switchboard calls, organising hospitality and offering administrative support to the firm. Every task which is undertaken must be delivered with an exceptional customer service approach.
A successful First Impression Assistant should have a welcoming and pleasant personality, with the ability to easily build rapport with people. They’ll be able to deal with urgent tasks in a timely and effective manner, and the ability to multitask is important for this position. This role requires working in shifts, so flexibility is a plus. This is a hands-on role and will involve working alongside Williams Lea team members to deliver the overall service.
Key responsibilities
- Meeting, greeting and interacting with visitors
- Processing and confirming meeting room booking requests
- Coordinating in-house events
- Meeting, greeting, and interacting with clients and visitors
- Call and email handling including taking and passing on accurate messages
- Raising any concerns about process, practice or incidents as appropriate
- Actioning any reasonable task instructed by your line manager
Personal attributes
- Reception experience is essential
- Event coordinating experience (preferable but not essential)
- An energetic approach that shines through in your work
- A team focused attitude
- A natural passion and desire to make every visitor smile
- A committed attitude and dedication to creating a memorable guest experience
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Experience using email and Microsoft packages
- Excellent personal presentation
The Package:
- Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance/Life Assurance, Company Pension, Corporate Eye Care, Personal Accident and Company Sick Pay.
- Additional benefits such as Dental Insurance, Childcare Vouchers, Gym Membership, Charity Donations, Employee Offers, Retail Vouchers and Season Ticket Loan are offered at a discount on a salary sacrifice basis.
You will also have the opportunity to work for a global employer; and dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects.
The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (each of these being a “protected characteristic” in discrimination law). It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values openness, fairness and transparency.
Please note: Due to the high volume of responses received for this role we will not be able to contact all applicants directly. If you have not heard from us in four weeks please consider your application unsuccessful.
