London Receptionist

Overview

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Role: London Receptionist - Part Time

Location: London,UK

Role ID: 2023-2038

Salary: £22k - 25k FTE

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Role purpose

As Receptionist you will be the first point of contact for the Company to all clients and visitors who attend our London premises, located in our modern offices at Paddington. Creating a professional welcome to all visitors and promoting our values and image will be a key aspect of the role.

While managing the reception area and meeting rooms to a high standard and ensuring the smooth running of the office, you will also need to deal with all deliveries and couriers, provide inductions for new starters, ordering office supplies and organising meetings.

This is a role where reliability is essential and is on a part-time basis. The proposed part-time hours are Monday and Tuesday 8.30am to 5pm.

Key accountabilities

• Receiving visitors in a welcoming and professional manner
• Arranging and receiving deliveries/couriers and directing them appropriately
• Ensuring the reception area and meeting rooms are maintained to a high standard
• Procuring catering for the office as well as specific meetings
• Clearing away catering and ensuring the catering kitchen is kept clean and tidy
• Liaising with the building reception regarding visitors
• Liaising with building representatives on building operations and maintenance issues
• Organising networking and team building events for the London office
• Postal services including franking
• First Aid and Fire Warden responsibilities
• Ensuring lockers and storage is managed appropriately for employees in the London Office
• Entering contact details on our CRM
• Working with Finance colleagues to reconcile purchase card expenditure for the office related purchases such as couriers and catering.

Skills and behaviours

• Have personal pride and confidence in portraying a professional image in the role
• High standards of efficiency and punctuality; ensuring reception cover is provided at all times
• Calm and positive demeanor under pressure
• A natural positive ‘can do’ attitude
• Proactive approach to continuous improvement in delivery of the role
• A comprehensive working knowledge of MS office
• The ability to build effective working relationships at all levels across the business
• Procurement administration experience relating to catering and office supplies

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.