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Salary Receptionist
Job title: Receptionist
Salary: £29,000 - £32,000 per annum dependent on experience
Location: London, EC2A
Contract: Permanent, Full time
Shifts: Monday through Friday between the hours of 08:00 to 19:00 (on a rota basis)
Work Model: On-site
Williams Lea seeks a Receptionist 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 the role
The Receptionist is the first point of contact for visitors calling or visiting our client’s office. Duties include welcoming clients and visitors to the office, handling switchboard calls, organising and preparing hospitality and offering administrative support to the firm. Every task which is undertaken must be delivered with an exceptional customer service approach.
A successful Receptionist 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Meeting, greeting, and interacting with visitors, tenants and contractors
- External and internal call and email handling including taking and passing on accurate
- messages
- Updating log-books and schedules
- Processing deliveries
- Ordering, organising and assisting with building events
- Populating data collection workbooks
- Ensuring that security to the building is maintained in line with guidance and standard
- operating procedures
- Carrying out the reception training for any cover team members and identifying ongoing
- training needs for the cover team, liaising with the Team Leader as needed
- Raising any concerns about process, practice or incidents as appropriate
- Internal
- Actioning any reasonable task instructed by your line manager or property manager
Key Skills
- A committed attitude and dedication to creating a memorable guest experience
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Experience using email and Microsoft packages
- An energetic approach that shines through in your work
- A team focused attitude
- A natural passion and desire to make every visitor smile
- Excellent personal presentation
- Adopts the company values – Teamwork, Integrity, Passion and Success
- Is innovative and can spot an improvement opportunity
- Has the ability to empathise and understand the customer’s needs
- Has exceptional communication skills
- Appreciates and values each other’s differences
- Always considers the best interests of the company, colleagues and customer
- Has a diligent work ethic
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, 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.
