Workplace Experience Host

Mitie

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 13 days ago
As Workplace Experience Host, you will be at the heart of delivering exceptional, memorable experiences for both colleagues and guests across our London offices. With a primary focus on 80 Fen, you'll play a key role in shaping a welcoming, dynamic, and engaging environment in LondonObjectives and Responsibilities
  • To be highly visible, always available and the “go to” person for queries
  • To deliver a 5* hotel concierge style experience at all times
  • Proactively identify opportunities to enhance the workplace experience - always going the extra mile to surprise and delight
  • Be the face of Workplace Experience team by providing tangible service that is visible and easily accessible
  • Support Event Experience Lead, Guest Services and Security leadership team to deliver contractual service requirements, ensuring process compliance
  • Own touchpoint areas as a whole; liaising with housekeeping, catering, porterage, and all relevant departments to ensure that it is set to agreed standards at all times
  • SIA certification (training can be provided if required)
  • To action and respond to all email requests with 48hrs of their receipt.
  • Point of contact for Event hosts, supporting coordination with Hospitality and scheduling porterage, and third party event setup/setback
  • Creating and maintaining spreadsheets, and supply of data for auditing purposes
Main duties
  • Greet and acknowledge all visitors and colleagues in lobby and working areas as they arrive/depart/pass by, ensuring they receive exceptional service
  • Deliver cloakroom service and lost property management
  • Work collaboratively with wider team in handling of groups and VIPs etc.
  • Host contractors on site
  • Knowledgeable to provide visitors and colleagues with information on city maps and directories, restaurants and pubs, shops, in-house services and daily functions, cultural activities, religious activities, sporting events, entertainment activities, special attractions, doctors, medical centres, transportation options etc
  • Liaise with VIPs and return visitors and ensure complete satisfaction during their time on site
  • Interact with colleagues and visitors, and effectively deal with basic glitches, and inform the Event Experience Lead
  • Proactively manage queues, striving to make the arrival or departure process as efficient as possible
  • Preempt needs of visitors and colleagues
  • Triage colleague queries received in person, email and online, responding in a timely manner or referring them to the right team or self service channels
  • Ensure communication and follow-up on any problems, visitors or colleague requests, and special requirements
  • Support furniture setup of event spaces and collaboration spaces, as well as resetting areas to agreed layouts
  • Ensuring name badges are produced and onsite ahead of event delivery, including managing registration
  • Conduct floor walks and service audits, and proactively logging work orders
  • Utilise a “hands on” approach whilst ensuring the service delivery is at the required standard
  • Cover support the provision of Guest Services and MRMS
  • Place stationary orders, print hub deliverables are maintained, audits conducted and colleague locker management
  • Administrative tasks and ad hoc reporting
  • Respond to First Aid incidents
  • To actively build relationships with other workstreams and partners, to ensure we are operating as OneMitie
  • Complete any reasonable management request or task
  • Conduct oneself in a professional manner at all times, adhering to established standards of conduct, department procedures and policies
Person Specification
  • 1 to 2 years' of comparable experience in high end hotels, modern workplaces, or tourism and hospitality
  • Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with core competencies around delivering service excellence
  • Immaculate personal presentation and sense of style
  • Must be able to identify and resolve issues, and to meet and exceed the expectations of our client
  • Flexible, agile, adaptable and ability to go that extra mile
  • Comfortable with wearable and mobile tech (radios, headsets, tablets)
  • Must be able to identify and resolve issues, and to meet and exceed the expectations of our client
  • Must be highly proficient in Outlook, Word, Teams, and Chrome
  • Competent operating VMS and MRMS platforms
  • Essential to be able to process large volume of queries across multiple platforms
  • Core skills required: Attention to detail, critical thinking, decisiveness, adaptability, initiative, safety awareness, customer service, prioritisation, personal organisation

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