Receptionist

Job Introduction
**2 Part time Receptionists vacancies**
**Am shift - 8am-12.30pm**
**Pm shift - 12.30pm-5pm**
**22.5 hours per week over 5 days - Monday-Friday**

**UK - RUSHDEN**We are looking for:A receptionist to join our Operations team and assist our Senior HR Business Partner with front of house reception in greeting staff and visitors at our Rushden site and administration duties.

At Pharmaron we offer:

- ** Vibrant and dynamic employment - **we are a highly specialised, growth company operating in a critical sector of the economy - our future is strong and exciting
- ** Opportunities to develop your skills and yourself - **our rapid growth brings greater opportunities for you to learn and grow faster
- ** A great team where we all support each other - **enjoy your work - after all you spend about a third of your time here

**Key roles and responsibilities**:

- Able to smoothly run the front of house Reception
- Operate the main Switchboard - transferring calls as and when required
- Meet and Greet visitors to the site and provide land yards
- Make Tannoy announcements as and when required
- Post -Distribute post accordingly and frank letters/packages, maintain machine and scales
- Co-ordinate TNT courier services, UK, International & Same Day courier services
- Co-ordinate special/recorded postal service
- Track and Trace all courier and special deliveries
- Co-ordinate car hire bookings
- Goods In - telephone cover for lunch times and holidays when required for Purchasing dept
- Time and Attendance system - Monthly spreadsheet - collation of data and communicating to line managers
- Organising appointments for the nurse clinic
- Ordering business cards when required
- Scan and file expenses for Site Director
- Weekly ordering of refreshments for kitchen
- Order Letter headed paper, compliments slips, lanyards when required
- Set up training files for new starters
- Input Management whereabouts on the intranet on a weekly basis
- Ensure meeting rooms are booked for conferences
- Order lunch for clients and supply refreshments for client meetings
- Booking of any hotel/transport as required
- Updating the organizational charts on a regular basis
- Providing some administration support to Senior HR Business Partner (Filing/scanning, other ad hoc tasks)
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**Requirements**:

- GCSE’s in English and Math is desirable but not essential
- Prior experience as a receptionist or administration role
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office software
- Good written and verbal communication skills

**Our Company**:“We are a dynamic, fast-growing company, with an enviable reputation for leading edge science, offering contract research services to some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, solving what were believed to be unsolvable scientific challenges”.We believe in our ability to relentlessly push forward the boundaries of scientific excellence, delivering solutions for our clients, always operating ethically and with integrity. We take pride in our professionalism and commitment to always deliver our very best work.

Based in Northamptonshire, our Rushden site is a centre of excellence for Radiolabelled Sciences incorporating both Metabolism (which includes Clinical Metabolism, Pre-clinical ADME, In vitro and DDI services, Large Molecule Metabolism, Environmental Fate, Plant Metabolism and Metabolite Identification) in addition to Chemistry (which includes API and IMP manufacture). We offer our employees a supportive teamwork environment, enabling them to develop and liberate their true potential.
- We offer a competitive salary and a progressive and comprehensive suite of employee benefits.
- We offer state of the art working environment in our specialist Rushen site.
- We offer the opportunity for growth and development and will support funding for relevant training and development programmes.

Pharmaron is a premier R&D service company supporting the life sciences industry. Founded in 2004, Pharmaron has invested in its people and facilities having established diverse drug R&D service capabilities, ranging from synthetic, medicinal, and analytical chemistry, biology, DMPK, pharmacology, drug safety assessment, radiochemistry and isotopically labelled metabolism, chemical & pharmaceutical development to clinical development. With operations in China, US and UK staffed by over 19,000 employees, Pharmaron has an excellent track record in the delivery of R&D solutions to its partners in North America, Europe, Japan, and China.