Workplace Services Ambassador

Job ID

175225

Posted

11-Jul-2024

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Administrative, Facilities Management

Location(s)

London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions is a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management. We are recruiting a Workplace Services Ambassador to join the team located in London. The successful candidate will provide a professional, engaging and interactive first point of contact for the building occupants with any operational queries/issues they may have. The role also provides an interface between clients and vendors, providing focus on key areas to ensure that a five-star standard is maintained at all times, whilst ensuring that issues are proactively identified and addressed by all vendors that service the floor before the clients become aware of them. The successful candidate will receive training and support to develop their career in Facilities Management.

Key Tasks

Develop and maintain client facing relationship.

Proactively support and deliver a collaborative and cooperative environment across all vendors and all floors

Act as the interface between all vendor operatives who provide an on-floor service for our customer, ensuring a seamless service delivery.

Perform duties to maintain the CBRE standards whilst delivering a high level of personal client engagement.

Continuously monitor and audit all designated client areas, including office floor and non-bookable meeting rooms, ensuring they are ‘fit for business’.

Carry out inspections of designated areas (TBC frequency and exact areas), record and proactively report issues and defects to the facilities helpdesk

Maintain ownership and proactively manage all issues in conjunction with the wider FM team

Understand service delivery SLAs and monitor to ensure requests are being completed in a timely manner

Promptly resolve all daily client requests, guiding clients with helpdesk tickets logged and managing expectations on completion timelines, to include monitoring and progress reports with personal feedback to individual clients and management (managing client expectations)

Report hazards and safety observations through CBRE myHSE system in a timely fashion

Work closely with health and safety vendor to conduct regular inspections

Provide a physical and personal presence in all building areas where scheduled external and internal client events are taking place, ensuring event areas are meticulously maintained

Manage community activities (e.g. kitchen table, divisional updates, training sessions, community whiteboard, socials) through ensuring Kitchen Table Area is kept clean and tidy at all times – liaising with the Cleaning Team / support events around the Kitchen Table Area

Recruit/ Engage with change champions and floor stakeholders on the rollout

Scheduled/ minuted meetings to be carried out on a monthly/ quarterly

Liaison with stakeholders on what desks are not clear the previous day to encourage improvement.

Observation reporting on vacant desks

Proactively report on any maintenance issues to CRS Helpdesk.

Report on any known AV issues to Multimedia services.

Locker set/reset

Liaision with Facilities Management team and escalating where required

Participation in welcome workshops

Innovation and suggestions to enhance service delivery

Education

General Education GCSE, minimum 5 at pass levels required.

Skills

Reliable and conscientious worker willing to learn and develop new skills and adapt to new working environments

Good administrative skills

Well organised and good prioritisation and planning skills

All services are delivered in a confident and efficient manner

Service orientated attitude combined with innovative thinking and the willingness to learn more about FM.

Self-motivated and resourceful with good written and verbal communication skills

IT literate with strong experience of working with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint software

Able and flexible handling a wide variety of items daily

Ability to work under pressure

Able to communicate with all levels of staff in a polite and efficient manner

Strong Customer Service background with previous experience

Ability to prioritise workload to effectively meet deadlines

Passionate about customer service and keen to develop FM knowledge

Firm understanding of delivering exceptional customer service

Acute eye for detail and service standards with excellent communication and influence skills (written and verbal)

Diplomacy in a demanding, fast-moving customer focused environment

Knowledge

Knowledge and awareness of the Service projects and facilities management industry

Good Health and Safety knowledge

Experience

Administration and customer services experience with the ability to communicate at all levels

Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a customer service environment

Aptitude

Natural flair and skill in organisation and time keeping.

Must adhere to CBRE RISE values at all times

Ability to interact successfully at all levels of seniority

Excellent communication skills

Smart and well presented at all times

Proactive, self-motivated energy with a positive can-do attitude and friendly demeanour

Flexible, team orientated and good organiser

Proficiency to follow up on multiple issues/queries simultaneously

About CBRE Global Workplace Solutions:

As one of CBRE’s core global businesses, Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) provides end-to-end services to occupier clients across the entire lifecycle of a building. Our teams help companies improve their operations and reduce costs, through expert facilities management, project management, real estate and energy and sustainability services. Our dedicated teams work across all industries, and support clients ranging from global Fortune 500 companies to single, iconic buildings.

CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2019 revenues of $23.9 billion and more than 100,000 employees (excluding affiliate offices). CBRE has been included on the Fortune 500 since 2008, ranking #128 in 2020. It also has been voted the industry’s top brand by the Lipsey Company for 19 consecutive years, and has been named one of Fortune’s “Most Admired Companies” for eight years in a row, including being ranked number one in the real estate sector in 2020, for the second consecutive year. Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CBRE.”

Application Process:

Your application will be reviewed by our Talent Resourcing Team and you will be contacted if you have been successful in being short listed for the role.

Taking into consideration the costs of sponsorship, the nature of the role and the financial resources of the account in question, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

No agencies please.

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