Workplace Manager

Job Description

Workplace Manager

Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting a Workplace Manager to develop and implement established business processes and procedures, alongside supporting the lawyers. This role will also work with central support teams on core policies and practices such as Environmental Management, Business Continuity, Travel, Health and Safety and space standards.  

This role is to be based in our new Riyadh office – reporting to the Workplace Manager – Middle East and our standard working hours are 8.30am-5.30pm, Sunday to Thursday, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Fluent in English with Arabic desireable .
• Experience in fit out projects, space planning and churn .
• Proven facilities management experience including areas such as;
• Service issues (HVAC, Confidential waste etc.)
• Supplier management.
• Office management – ensuring office is well maintained, stocked and in good working order.
• Demonstrable Line management experience for teams such as Drivers and vehicles, Reception and facilities assistants.
• Experience in procurement or contract management and be able to approve and process invoices to appropriate set thresholds.
• Capable of auditing standards/procedures within the front of house areas to ensure that excellent service delivery.
• Ability to strategically organise and plan resource usage of the client meeting space, ensuring the smooth running of events/seminars etc.
• Experience within Health and Safety, including ensuring monthly risk checks are carried out across all premises under your remit adhere to relevant health and safety standards, ensuring new staff inductions are carried out and ensuring all statutory signage, Fire evacuation plans etc are up to date and properly displayed.
  
  

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.