Host

**Ref**

31035

**Department**

Operations

**Location**

Manchester City Centre

**Employment type**

Full-time

**Salary**

£26,208

**Closing date**

08/06/2025

**Description**

At Bruntwood, we're committed to offering more than just outstanding office, coworking, retail and lab spaces. Everything we do is tied into our vision of building vibrant communities, whilst providing businesses with the support and expertise they need to grow. We’re commercial property specialists operating across the UK.

Bruntwood own, develop, manage and maintain properties across England. Our focus is on 'Creating Thriving Cities' which is evident across our website, so have a look to gain more of a perspective on what we do, and how we operate.

You'll work in our newly refurbished **Kings House** building, located in Manchester City Centre Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week.

**Job purpose**:
The Host role is a pivotal position as the face of Bruntwood. You will be the first point of contact and ultimately you will be working with our clients/tenants on a regular basis. So it's important you are approachable and ultimately love speaking to people and building relationships. That's why we love applicants from hospitality/retail/cabin crew backgrounds where you will be a natural at this.

**What will you be doing?**
- Delivering a positive Customer Experience within the building
- Build lasting, long term, professional relationships with customers
- To be the first point of contact for all customers and visitors in the building
- Support and facilitate events and meetings within the building
- Facilitate new customer viewings to support the sales process
- Host the meeting rooms, co working, lounge and other communal amenities, maintaining high standards of presentation and food and beverage service where applicable
- Able to manage own workload to flex between essential desk based tasks and building customer relationships with customers
- Collate all customer intelligence and update systems accordingly to support sales and retention
- Working as part of a wider team, engage with your customers, colleagues, management team and other departments within Bruntwood
- Be a role model to promote wellbeing in the workplace
- You will have a focus on continuous improvement making sure that we add value, save time and make things simple for the customer
- On top of the salary advertised you will be entitled to a number of benefits including;_
- **_28 days holiday_**_ plus you get your Birthday off work - and if that’s not enough you can also buy & sell holidays too_
- **_24 hours a year volunteer time_**_ - there are endless opportunities for you to get involved in supporting the causes that matter most to you_
- **_Sabbatical of up to 12 months_**_ so you can take a career break after five years with us_
- **_Healthcare cash plan_**_ for all colleagues, so you can claim back medical expenses like optical, dentist & physiotherapy. We also offer private healthcare cover on an opt in basis too_
- **_Life assurance_**_ cover for all colleagues_
- _Up to_**_ 8%_**_ matched pension scheme_
- **_Discounts & cashback_**_ at leading retailers_
- **_Enhanced maternity / shared parental leave_**_ - 26 weeks fully paid leave_
- **_Interest free_**_ _**_learning loans _**_to help you develop new skills_

In addition to what to expect within the role and your benefits, it’s good to know that you’ll be working for a business that gives back - The Oglesby Charitable Trust has donated more than £25m since it started out in 2001. Supporting charities across Arts and Culture, Education, Environment, Medical Research and Social & Health Inequality.

Our operations team make up a huge part of our workforce. Therefore it's incredibly important to us that we recruit from diverse backgrounds to reflect the communities we operate in, and ultimately achieve our goal of creating thriving cities that are completely inclusive.

For successful applicants we conduct a one stage interview process that will give you the opportunity to see the role in action, as well as ask questions to ensure it’s the right fit for you.