Corporate Receptionist | London

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Role:

To create a welcoming, professional first impression and assist all visitors and clients both in person and over the telephone.

Location: London

Reports to: Head Receptionist


Key Areas of Responsibility:

  • Responsible for managing switchboard
  • Responsible for overseeing front of house, ensuring meeting rooms and reception are immaculate at all times
  • Meeting and greeting all visitors
  • Coordinates meeting room bookings
  • Liaising with Hospitality Assistant for catering requirements
  • Liaising with the IT team for meeting room support
  • Overseeing meeting rooms and client areas
  • Liaison with main building reception
  • Management of all equipment in reception area

Key Competencies:


Core Skills:

  • Consistently positive even under pressure
  • Self-starter with a hands-on approach
  • Proactively takes on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks
  • Actively participates in continual professional development
  • Acts with discretion, integrity and professionalism at all times
  • Is widely trusted and seen as direct and honest
  • Positive outlook, seen as committed and enthusiastic
  • Fully proficient level of competency of all mainstream software packages that are relevant to role
  • Shows initiative and adopts a proactive approach
  • Identifies issues and resolves promptly
  • Manages and prioritises workload effectively and seeks help when necessary
  • Successfully handles multiple tasks

Team:

  • Seen as a cooperative team player willing to resolve issues
  • Seen to go out of your way to help/support others and portray a can-do and helpful attitude
  • Participates in admin team meetings/events
  • Provides cover in the absence of team members

Communication:

  • Communicates effectively with colleagues, clients and suppliers
  • Demonstrates effective communication skills both written and verbal

Key Tasks


Standards and Workflow:

  • Efficient and professional management of all incoming calls and ensuring they are connected to relevant person
  • Takes and delivers clear message and ensures it is passed on to appropriate person
  • Professionally meets and greets all visitors upon arrival providing refreshments
  • Promptly informing relevant person that their visitor has arrived
  • Ensures newspapers and magazines in reception area are appropriately displayed each day
  • Efficiently receives and interacts with incoming visitors
  • Efficiently manages and coordinates meeting rooms bookings
  • Ensures all catering requirements for all meetings are coordinated
  • Consistently ensures that meeting rooms are always presentable and all relevant equipment/materials/catering is provided
  • Provides direction and support to Hospitality Assistant for the set-up and clearing of meetings rooms within the required timeframe
  • Ensures all meeting rooms are ready for use at the required time and are the correct layout
  • Ensures all meeting rooms are set up with the relevant equipment and are presented to the required standard
  • Regularly communicates with reception for the main building and ensures adherence to all security requirements
  • Ensures all TV screens are switched on and off at the start and end of each day
  • Ensures that both reception area and meetings rooms are presentable at all times
  • Ensure all food is ordered in advance to meet catering requirements for meetings and events
  • Performs other ad hoc duties as and when required
  • Observes H&S and security procedures

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