Office Manager

Job Title:Office Manager
Location:Shrewsbury

Thorn Baker have teamed up with an award-winning independent house builder who is looking for an experienced Office Managerto join their team. This isa great opportunity to work with an incredibly successful company with over forty years' experience across the UK and a well-deserved reputation for creating homes in keeping with their environment.

What's in it for you:

• Competitive salary up to £35,000 per annum(commensurate with experience)+ bonus
• Contributory pension
• Ongoinglearning and development

Your Responsibilities:

• Correspondence on behalf of Directors and senior managers
• Maintain and update office policies and procedures for improved efficiency
• Deal with HR administration and implementation
• Enforce Health & Safety regulations, creating a secure and compliant work environment including chasing annual PQQ paperwork
• Liaise with external partners, clients and stakeholders as required
• Warmly greet visitors, answer and direct phone calls promptly, fielding cold sales calls
• Maintain meeting room and reception area - including providing visitors with drinks and giving H&S induction details. Ensuring area is clean, tidy and clear of clutter and rubbish
• Perform a variety of administrative duties, such as generating VOS, letters, spreadsheets, sorting and responding to emails
• Ensure complaints are dealt with effectively
• Preparation of handover files for open market customers and housing associations
• Uploading documents [benchmarks and instruction manuals] to portal for customer access
• Scanning audits etc onto bespoke company portal

• Full job description available upon request

Required Skills:

• Excellent organizational skills and a high attention to detail
• Strong IT skills particularly with Word and Excel.
• Good communicator, approachable and polite and be able to work across all levels of the organisation
• Knowledge of the construction and house building industry would be useful but is not essential as full training will be provided
• Being a hands-on individual and having worked in a previous construction role would be an advantage.
• Able to problem solve and make decisions in line with the level of responsibility.
• Able to plan and coordinate multiple tasks.
• HR experience required

For more information on the role please contact Chloeat Thorn Baker on(phone number removed) or email:(url removed)

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