Corporate Waiter

**SYDNEY - CBD**

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

We are currently seeking a Corporate Waiter to join our Client Services team in our Sydney office. This role is full-time Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:30pm. At times, there will be the requirement for some and additional hours to be worked outside the core hours

The primary responsibilities of this role include:

- Liaising with Client Services and Facilities Manager and Corporate Receptionist, regarding food and beverage requirements for meetings and functions and other areas as required.
- Provide waiter services for any functions being conducted on the premises.
- Ensuring meeting rooms are cleared and any crockery used is cleaned and cleared.
- Ensuring meeting rooms are cleaned and always stocked. This also extends to the readiness of the client floor waiting area.
- Liaising with Chef regarding overseeing of consumables.
- Providing AV assistance, support clients and internal staff in the use of technology and video conferencing facilities.
- Supporting all client services staff when required.
- Assist with administration tasks.
- Assist in managing the daily activities within the staff kitchens.
- Flexibility to assist with occasional “hands on” kitchen duties and/or after-hours events.

**SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS**

As well as having excellent communication and serving skills, the successful applicant will have:

- A high level of diplomacy, discretion, and confidentiality.
- Passion for delivering high level customer service.
- Ability to problem solve under pressure and a can-do attitude.
- Flexible approach to resourcing and allocation of work.
- Developed understanding of clients’ needs through the checking of requirements and requests.
- Initiative and ability to demonstrate prioritising conflicting tasks.
- Strong time management skills.
- Experience using Microsoft suite and RBS (Room Booking System).

**GROUP / TEAM**

Office Operations

**GROUP / TEAM DESCRIPTION**

Our Office Operations function plays a central role in managing our working environment and the services within it, so that practice areas can serve their clients to the best of their ability. That goes beyond just ensuring that professionals have the client-facing and office services and equipment they need. It’s about ensuring that every space around our global network serves its purpose effectively, whether that’s an office, a breakout area or a conference room.

The team also makes sure that all-important legal documents are where they need to be through the mailroom and courier services, as well as overseeing document archival and retrieval. Our Office Operations function includes Procurement, Building Operations, Document Production, Business Continuity and Client Services & Travel teams.

**What we offer**:

- At Herbert Smith Freehills we value flexibility.
- We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge, and ideas of all our people. We are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for our clients and we value empathy, simplicity, and commerciality.
- At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus, and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
- People join us to develop their careers and themselves. To support this we provide contemporary tailored learning programs, regular career conversations and a culture of feedback
- This vacancy is being managed directly by Herbert Smith Freehills Recruitment team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional assistance. Thank you._

**ROLE TYPE**

Business Services

**CONTRACT TYPE**

Permanent

**WORKING PATTERN**

Full Time

**DIVERSITY & INCLUSION**

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based