Corporate Front of House Team Leader

TN United Kingdom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Birmingham seeks a Front of House Team Leader to enhance guest experiences and manage corporate facilities. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, a passion for customer service, and a minimum of 2 years' experience in a similar role. This physically demanding position involves overseeing a team, managing event setups, and ensuring high service standards in a prestigious corporate environment.

Benefits

Flexible lifestyle benefits platform

Cycle-to-work scheme

Enhanced pension contributions

Life cover up to four times salary

High street discounts

Cash prizes for employee recognition

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years' experience in a similar role.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership and people skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the Front of House team.
• Manage meeting room setups and ensure service standards.
• Conduct facility inspections and service audits.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Service

Attention to Detail

Problem Solving

Education

Experience in a corporate office environment

Tools

Outlook

Word

Teams

Chrome

Visitor Management Tools

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23.05.2025

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07.07.2025

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Job Description:

Better places, thriving communities.

Front of House Team Leader - Mitie, Birmingham

Availability required: Monday to Friday am to 7pm

Reporting to: Regional Front of House Manager

At this corporate flagship office, located in the heart of Birmingham, the building offers state of the art meeting room and event space technology, and an unparalleled working environment. Our guest services team strives to create memorable moments for clients and colleagues alike.

Role Overview:

We seek a dynamic individual to join our elite corporate guest services team as Team Leader. Our team is responsible for delivering exceptional arrival and departure experiences for our visitors and colleagues, proactively managing the working floors, meeting rooms, and collaboration spaces, and providing in-depth knowledge of the building's facilities and amenities. As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in crafting seamless and memorable experiences for our colleagues and visitors, exceeding expectations by going above and beyond to ensure every visitor and colleague feels valued and looked after during their time on site. Consistency, dedication, and diligence are essential for success in this role, as is the ability to coordinate a team and lead a shift.

The ultimate goal of the Front of House Team Leader is to act as a brand ambassador for standards, coordinate the floor hosts on shift to proactively manage the workspace and support the site leadership team, handle special requests including preferences for colleagues' and visitors' time on site, as well as show intuition and empathy in all kinds of situations.

You will coordinate and lead the daily porterage requirements relating to the setup of event spaces and meeting rooms, provide first fix IT/AV support to colleagues and visitors using the meeting rooms, carry out floor walks to identify faults, and remain vigilant to prevent security breaches.

This is a physically demanding role and you will be spending a lot of time on your feet. You will be a natural problem solver.

To be an active and contributing senior member of the Front of House team, ready to step in and support any area at any time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead: Ensure site procedures and service standards are followed at all times
• Facility Coordination: Support facilities management and the wider FOH team to proactively manage the workspace, ensuring compliance and maintaining high service standards.
• Meeting Rooms and Porterage: Own the setup and reset of meeting rooms and event spaces to specified layouts
• Touchpoints: Daily ownership of the physical touchpoint journey, ensuring all colleague and client facing areas are set to agreed layout, fabric, and housekeeping standards and proactively logging jobs as required
• Warm Welcomes: Conduct visitor arrival/departure check-in and check-out by managing and issuing access, in a manner aligned with a 5* hotel
• Quality check: Observe, coach, and support the team
• Support: Act as main support to the FOH Leadership team and Facilities Manager
• Resolve: Make it right when we get it wrong
• Coordinate: Manage last minute shift changes, ensure areas are in places at all times, and ensure support is available to the team
• Security: Be vigilant at all times, to keep our colleagues and visitors safe

Main Duties:

• Facilities Processes: Carry out onsite facilities inspections, floor walks, and service audits
• Serve: Act with a 5* concierge mindset
• Technical Expertise: Offer first-class meeting room first fix AV support. Undertake regular checks of AV kit to ensure it is working at all times.
• Available: Be highly visible, always available, and the “go-to” person for queries
• Train: Identify training needs and support the leadership team to deliver these requirements
• Review: Check and ensure the working areas are set up and working as intended, to ensure colleagues and visitors are set up for success and can be productive whilst on site
• Support the manager to maintain accurate and up-to-date personnel files including working hours, payroll, training, and development records in line with contractual requirements
• Step Up: Be a champion for diversity and inclusion on site
• Administration: Support with rota preparation, reporting, logging work orders, and other associated tasks

What we are looking for:

The ideal candidate will already have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a similar role in a prestigious corporate office environment. You will have a genuine passion for delivering personable, 5* hotel style service. You will be a natural leader, confident to work alongside and support to ensure service delivery aligns with prescribed standards. You will enjoy the art of service, and be looking to progress your professional development.

Qualifications:

• Comparable role experience in a similar corporate office environment
• Strong leadership, motivation, and people skills
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with core competencies around delivering service excellence
• Immaculate grooming, personal presentation, and sense of style
• 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 using visitor and space management tools, such as Condeco

Core skills required:

Attention to detail, critical thinking, decisiveness, adaptability, initiative, safety awareness, customer service, prioritisation, personal organisation

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing us at [email address].