Office Manager

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Job title: Office Manager

Company: Foot Anstey

Job description: Are you an experienced Office Manager in Southampton with a passion for delivering high-quality business support services, ensuring that every stakeholder and client experience and event shines with the brilliance of a white glove service? If you’re ready to define the gold standard in legal office management, this might just be your moment to shine!Join our ambitious law firm and lead a dedicated team to ensure every client’s experience is nothing short of exceptional.About the RoleAs an Office Manager within our Firm, you will be at the heart of our operations, ensuring the smooth delivery of Business Support Services to our internal and external customers working with internal stakeholders, including our Events Team.Your role will be pivotal in maintaining standards, enabling change, and driving results efficiently. You’ll have the support of our Central Office Services Manager and Facilities Manager when needed, and you’ll oversee a variety of functions from Reception and Business Services to health and safety compliance.Key Responsibilities:

• Daily Operations: Manage and supervise the Business Services team to prioritise duties, meet service levels, and maintain quality.
• Management Reporting: Capture KPI data and drive operational excellence.
• Collaboration: Work with IT and Business Services teams to deliver a consistent, premier experience.
• Resource Management: Ensure office supplies are stocked and manage office moves with the Facilities Manager.
• Event Execution: Collaborate with the Events Manager to execute professional and cost-efficient events.
• Client Communication: Develop relationships and manage expectations to deliver outstanding service.
• Team Development: Recruit, train, and manage staff to foster a high-performing team.
• Health & Safety: Ensure compliance and act as a Fire Marshal, conducting risk assessments and maintaining safety standards.

Skills and Attributes:

• Proven experience in business services within a professional setting.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication abilities and the capability to build positive working relationships.
• IOSH qualification is desirable but is not essential
• Proficiency in IT, AV, and various office equipment.
• Able to work in our Southampton office, 36.25 hours per week, between the hours of 08:00 and 18:00

Apply today and take the next step in your career with us at Foot Anstey whilst delivering exceptional service and making a real impact!Pre-employment screeningSuccessful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team at recruitment.team@footanstey.comEligibility to work in the UKEligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility for a Skilled Worker visa before applying and keep up to date with any legal developments.Our offer to youIn return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters. Take a look here to find out more aboutWhy Foot Anstey?As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from seven locations with offices in Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London.Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Talent Development programme and Digital Skills Academy, and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.Apply for this Job

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