Are you a people-oriented person with customer service experience in a professional environment? Are you looking for an interesting role with daily variety and responsibility? We are seeking a front of house professional at Reception. The Receptionist supports a busy office with overall responsibility for ensuring staff and guests are taken care of while also ensuring the office runs smoothly. This is a professional and fast-paced environment, and the receptionist should have an outgoing personality to warmly greet and assist visitors and firm employees, ensuring their needs are anticipated and met.
Job Duties:
- Greet clients and visitors to the office with warmth and professionalism.
- Provide concierge-style support to staff, clients, and guests.
- Check conference room and meeting schedules throughout a shift and make note of any changes to ensure meetings are set up accurately.
- Make conference room, catering, hoteling office and visitor office reservations using reservation software and calendars.
- Reserve and manage hoteling office spaces and re-set hoteling offices in between use.
- Assist clients with finding an appropriate meeting room, office, or resource, arranging alternatives, and negotiating with other parties as required to find a solution for all parties.
- Answer incoming calls, in a cordial, professional, and timely manner. Transfer calls to appropriate individuals.
- Communicate with supervisor or client on meeting request concerns or deadline issues.
- Work with clients to plan catering for meetings and events.
- Order catering for events and meetings, ensuring orders are received on time and accurately.
- Set up conference rooms according to client’s request, including audio/visual equipment, food, beverages, utensils, ice, etc.
- Clean up and re-set conference rooms after use.
- Assist in maintaining kitchen and pantry areas, ensuring they are stocked and in good order.
- Light housekeeping duties such as wiping down counters and door handles, clearing conference rooms and maintaining kitchen areas.
- Maintain inventory of catering supplies and order supplies as needed.
- Ensure Conference Rooms and hoteling offices are well maintained and ready for upcoming reservations; report any issues to the appropriate department.
- Handle light administrative duties including expense reimbursements and miscellaneous projects as assigned.
- Handle sensitive and/or confidential documents and information.
- Prepare and send out a daily visitor email.
- Support distribution of daily incoming and outgoing mail and packages.
- Support copy, print, and scan requests based on requestor specifications and requested deadline using provided MFD equipment.
- Tech curious
- Strong attention to detail
Job Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Minimum (1) year professional experience preferably in corporate, hospitality, restaurant, or housekeeping industry.
- Must have strong customer service skills.
- Knowledge of MS Office and Outlook is required.
- Strong communication, organization, and attention to detail is required.
- Able to make independent decisions that conform to business needs and policy.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills required.
- Excellent organizational skills required.
- Must be able to meet deadlines and complete all projects in a timely manner.
- Strong attention to detail is required.
- Must work well in a team environment.
- Professional attire and demeanor required.
- Good written communication skills.
- Good problem-solving skills, with the ability and understanding of when to escalate a problem to a supervisory level.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, high energy environment.
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to operate basic audio/visual equipment.
- Professional telephone demeanor.
- Ability to anticipate client’s needs for meetings and events.
- Must be self-motivated with a positive can-do attitude.
- Proven customer service skills are required to create, maintain, and enhance customer relationships.