Community Host - Woking

PMR are seeking an enthusiastic Community Host to join a well-established Build to Rent operator in Woking!

Your objective will be to achieve resident retention goals by performing all activities related to customer service to all residents, providing resident satisfaction throughout the term of the lease to ensure lease renewals and referrals. You will also be instrumental in handling enquiries, conducting leasing tours and leasing related paperwork.

Responsibilities:

* Deliver an exceptional experience to every person, beginning with an unmatched first impression and building rapport with other team members, visitors, investor and clients, and both prospective and current residents

* Management of complaints/problems/issues arising from Residents, ensuring that all complaints are dealt with quickly and efficiently. This requires strong and efficient communication skills, maturity, an abundance of common sense and the ability to stay calm in a crisis.

* The ideal candidate will need to be highly organised, must have good written communication skills and be able to multi-task. All issues reported to us are recorded on our database. Every communication with a resident and action taken has to be logged on our database and a copy of our log is presented to our clients on a monthly basis. This affords us an opportunity to demonstrate the extent to which we keep residents regularly informed of the process of resolving their issues and the speed with which we deal with them.

* Maintain and uphold a high standard for community check appeal by conducting routine inspections of all community amenities and common areas, and working with the service team or other teams to ensure that all areas are well-maintained

* Follows-up with future, current and past residents by personalising thank you notes, cards, emails or making telephone calls to ensure resident satisfaction throughout their tenancy.

* Executes and assists with activities to support the community's leasing and lease renewal program.

* Executes and assists with activities to in relation to any community activities and events.

* Responds quickly and courteously to resident concerns, questions and takes prompt action to solve problems and/or document and convey resident or other requests to the appropriate individual.

* Follows established policies and procedures by monitoring and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, organisational standards, and operational processes related to area of responsibility and reporting violations or infractions to appropriate individual

* Follows health & safety procedures and policies in accordance with company, community, and departmental policies & procedures

* Identifies areas for improvement and offers suggestions and recommendations to optimise efficiency and productivity.

* Keeps abreast of current changes in technology, processes, and standards within the industry and area of responsibility by attending internal and external training classes, research and/or subscribing to the internet or other professional publications, or utilising other appropriate methods to obtain business and professional information, and applies knowledge and practices to area of responsibility

* Ability to keep sensitive information highly confidential at all times

* Day to Day concierge type services as required by the Development such as handling parcels, delivering post and other reasonable requests.

Experience:

* Proven experience in residential services, leasing, guest relations, hospitality, sales, or marketing that demonstrates a customer service and experience background.
* Proficiency in executing exceptional customer service within a customer facing role.
* Excellent written and spoken English.
* IT skills including MS Word, Excel & Outlook (training will be provided for our internal database system)

Personal specification:

* Excellent relationship building skills, both with entirely new and long term residents.
* Efficient and organised individual with excellent communication skills and has a sensitive, professional and well-mannered nature.
* Works exceptionally well within a team dynamic and contributes to an established open culture.
* Ability to build positive and productive working relationships with colleagues across the Company.
* Ability to follow company policies and procedures.
* Excellent communications skills, demonstrating the ability to liaise effectively & efficiently with people from diverse cultures, backgrounds and work levels.

If this sounds like you, apply today!