Guest Services Host

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Greater London; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Virtual GP

Salary Finance

Choices platform

MiDeals discounts

Cycle-to-work

Job summary

Mitie is seeking a Guest Services Host in London to deliver concierge-style service to visitors and colleagues at Riverbank House. You will be highly visible, responsive, and proactive, acting as the go-to person for queries and ensuring a seamless arrival and departure experience.

You will collaborate with Event Experience Lead, Security leadership, and Colleague Services Manager to meet contractual requirements, while maintaining high standards across lobby spaces and support areas.

Qualifications

• 1–2 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.
• Flexible, agile, and adaptable.
• Proficient in administrative tasks, electronic record-keeping, and mailbox management, with the ability to process high volumes of queries across multiple platforms.

Responsibilities

• Greet and acknowledge all visitors and colleagues in lobby and working areas as they arrive/depart, ensuring they receive exceptional service.
• Liaise with VIPs and return visitors and ensure complete satisfaction during their time on site; deliver cloakroom service and lost property management.
• Host contractors on site and interact with colleagues and visitors; escalate issues to the Event Experience Lead as needed.
• Manage lobby and client areas; monitor access, check-in/check-out, and maintain a welcoming presence.
• Provide information on city maps, directories, dining and activities to visitors and colleagues.

Skills

Customer service

Verbal communication

Written communication

Administrative tasks

Outlook

Tools

Outlook

Word

Teams

Chrome

Job description

Our values and behaviors

An individual's belief in our values and behaviours is as important as their technical and/or professional know how which is why our Job Descriptions are written with these in mind.

Better places, thriving communities.

Our values and behaviors

An individual's belief in our values and behaviours is as important as their technical and/or professional know how which is why our Job Descriptions are written with these in mind.

Job Objectives And Responsibilities

As Guest Services Host, you will be at the heart of delivering exceptional, memorable experiences for both colleagues and guests at London offices, with a primary focus on Riverbank House. You'll play a key role in shaping a welcoming, dynamic, and engaging environment in London:

• Deliver an exceptional guest experience: Provide a warm, professional, and personalised concierge-style service, anticipating needs and ensuring every visitor and colleague receives a unique experience.
• To be highly visible, always available and the “go to” person for queries
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance the guest experience – always going the extra mile to surprise and delight
• Manage lobby and client areas: Own the Client spaces by monitoring access, managing visitor check-in/check-out, controlling queues efficiently, and maintaining a welcoming, visible presence at all times.
• Be the face of Guest Services by providing tangible service that is visible and easily accessible
• Support Event Experience Lead, Security leadership and Colleague Services Manager to deliver contractual service requirements, ensuring process compliance
• Own touchpoint areas as a whole; liaising with housekeeping, catering, and all relevant departments to ensure that it is set to agreed standards at all times
• To action and respond to all email requests with 24hrs of their receipt

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
• Liaise with VIPs and return visitors and ensure complete satisfaction during their time on site Deliver cloakroom service and lost property management
• Work collaboratively with wider team in preparing for VIP, and group arrivals/departures etc
• Host contractors on site
• Interact with colleagues and visitors, and effectively deal with basic glitches, and inform the Event Experience Lead as escalation route
• 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
• Preempt needs of visitors and colleagues
• Proactively manage queues, striving to make the arrival or departure process as seamless as possible
• 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
• Conduct regular checks of lobby areas, collaboration spaces, and communal areas, ensuring layouts, equipment, and furnishings meet the highest standards.
• Maintain shared mailboxes, ensuring timely responses and proper filing of resolved queries.
• Support furniture setup of event spaces and collaboration spaces, as well as resetting areas to agreed layouts
• Ensure all tasks are completed in line with health, safety, and corporate compliance procedures.
• Ensuring name badges are produced and onsite ahead of event delivery, including managing registration
• Conduct floor walks, and proactively logging work orders with Corporate Services
• Utilise a “hands on” approach whilst ensuring the service delivery is at the required standard
• Collaboration in support of setup, and setback of meeting rooms and event spaces i.e. moving furniture
• Conduct visitor arrival/departure check-in and check-out by managing and issuing access, according to agreed visitor and contractor access processes that is smooth and efficient
• Place stationary orders, support print hub deliverables and conduct audits
• Creating and maintaining spreadsheets, and supply of data for auditing purposes
• Administrative tasks and ad hoc reporting
• Conduct oneself in a professional manner at all times, adhering to established standards of conduct, department procedures and policies To actively build relationships with other workstreams and partners, to ensure we are operating as OneMitie
• Complete any reasonable management request or task

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
• Flexible, agile, and adaptable
• Proficient in administrative tasks, electronic record-keeping, and mailbox management, with the ability to process high volumes of queries across multiple platforms.
• Must be able to identify and resolve issues, and to meet and exceed the expectations of our client
• Strong problem-solving skills, demonstrating initiative, accountability, and the ability to handle challenges calmly and effectively
• 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
• Awareness of health, safety, and security protocols within a corporate setting
• 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

Working within the Mitie values and behaviours

People

Mitie is a people business. It's our people, and their drive to do their jobs to the best of their ability that makes us different.

Trustworthy

We do what we say we will

How We Behave…

• We treat all colleagues with respect.
• We challenge people when they don't do the right thing.
• We welcome advice from anyone that might improve what we do.
• We are open and honest.
• We think safety and always follow rules for safe working

Helpful

• We go out of our way to make a difference

How We Behave…

• We work with each other to achieve the best for clients and for Mitie.
• We share information to help colleagues succeed.
• We build great relationships.
• Our first response to requests will always be positive.
• We look out for each other, never walking by unsafe actions or situations

Inspiring

• We support and encourage each other to develop.
• We lead by example.
• We set clear expectations.
• We listen to and learn from others.
• We learn from mistakes and incidents to prevent recurrence

Passion

Take our people, add their passion, and you get something really special.

Spirited

• We do good things for each other, the environment, and the community.
• We appreciate diversity and encourage it.
• We demonstrate team spirit.
• We are committed to doing things better and setting new standards in all that we do

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme 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 benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

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 is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer 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 at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.