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Your New Mandarin Job Title: Mandarin Chinese speaking Receptionist, London

The Skills You'll Need: Excellent level of Mandarin and fluent English; Relevant Receptionist / Admin experience in the UK and willing to work 5 days in the office

Your New Salary: £30-33k depending on experience

Location: Central London

Job status: Temporary (Possible to transfer to Fixed-term Contract / Permanent)

Report to: Office Service Manager and Head of Department

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

• speak and write fluent Mandarin and English
• have Receptionist / Admin experience in corporate environments
• have working experience in the UK
• are willing to work 5 days in the office

If that means this job isn’t a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.

What You'll be Doing Each Day:

• Using a variety of software packages, such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel, Access, etc., to produce correspondence and documents and maintain presentations, records, spreadsheets and databases;
• Welcoming guests in a professional manner including delegations and VIP visitors;
• Contacting hosts and advising of guests arrival and escorting the guests to meeting rooms when required;
• Operating the main switchboard and answering external and internal calls in a polite and confident manner;
• Booking lunches for meetings;
• Devising and maintaining office systems, booking rooms and conference facilities;
• Liaising with staff in other departments and with external contacts;
• Ordering and maintaining stationery and equipment supplies;
• Sorting and distributing incoming post and organising and sending outgoing post;
• Covering the travel administrator, including coordinating the travel approval process, booking flights, hotels, cars and drivers when needed;
• Organising and storing paperwork, documents and computer-based information;
• Helping staff with issues associated with the facilities by working with other service providers such as cleaners, maintenance and security.
• Translation of documents from Mandarin to English.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Excellent level of Mandarin and fluent English in speaking and writing
• Working experience in Receptionist or Office Admin from a corporate environment in the UK
• Degree in Management/ Business Studies or equivalent
• Willing to work 5 days in the office
• Methodical and organised
• Polite and courteous
• Good at juggling tasks, prioritising and reacting to and resolving problems
• A good team player
• Computer literacy and good typing skills
• A good level of English spelling and grammar
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy
• Shows initiative
• Desire to deliver a high quality service

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We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

People First is committed to increasing diversity, and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability.

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