Create your own future
The Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management UK team is paramount to the success of our business and we’re searching for the best candidate out there to join us. We’re all a little bit different, but share the same characteristics when it comes to courage, ambition and a passion for investing.
As Office Manager, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing our London office operations, ensuring seamless facility management, robust IT infrastructure, and providing necessary support to the Business Management Team and wider staff, so that every aspect of our daily operations runs with efficiency.
This role requires a candidate who has proven experience within office management or a similar role, proven strong interpersonal & organisational skills, is committed to excellence with a can do attitude to achieve a smooth running of the London office.
You also have the following tasks:
- Office & Facility Management: Oversee the physical infrastructure of the office, including maintenance and management of third-party providers. To ensure the office and employees are compliant to health & safety policies and procedures.
- Business Continuity (BC) coordination: Collaborate with the central NFRM team to maintain local BC documentation and procedures.
- IT & AV Support: Collaborate with internal and external IT teams to manage infrastructure and hardware, ensure systems are operational and up to date, and coordinate maintenance visits.
- Supplier Management: Support the delivery of third-party services through effective supplier relationship management.
- Operational Support: Assist with onboarding, audits, business process reviews, and sustainability reporting (e.g. CO₂ and travel data).
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with the Executive Assistant and Business Manager and wider teams, providing regular updates on completed and pending tasks.
Your talents
Passionate, enthusiastic and personable. This is how we can best describe you in the position of an Office Manager. Talents that you use to guide our customers in a constantly changing world every day. By thinking out of the box and asking questions. And all will be well if you also can effectively manage varying projects whilst upholding day to day tasks. Importantly, you are eager to make a real difference to everyday office life. You also have:
- At least 1-2 years of experience in office or facilities management within a similar environment is highly desirable.
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Strong administrative skills and attention to detail
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Strong time management, organizational and problem solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- A strong sense of responsibility and high standards of personal integrity.
- Works effectively with people from a range of different backgrounds.
- Highly effective in forging working relationships with team members and business counterparts.
- Strong professional and personal integrity.
Move ahead at Van Lanschot Kempen
Investing in a more future-oriented, sustainable, and data-driven way with various clients. Both nationally and internationally. With nearly 300 years of experience, we make this ambition a reality at Van Lanschot Kempen. We do this with some 2,200 colleagues in various fields of expertise.
You will collaborate with the Business Management Team to deliver office support, enabling the UK to meet its objectives while consistently demonstrating the company’s core values.
An organisation's degree of innovation and agility also depends on the diversity of its workforce. Our differences make us stronger together. We promote an inclusive work environment where all colleagues feel at home. With us, you can be yourself. And we are proud of that.
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Turning talent into value!
That's what we do! The fact is, if you add value, you can expect the same from us in return. A good work-life balance with our 'hybrid way of working' is a good example of this. As an Office Manager, you will also be given:
- A competitive salary commensurate with your knowledge and experience
- 25 days holiday and ability to buy holidays
- Pension equal to 9% of your annual basic salary
- Private Medical Insurance including comprehensive dental cover
- Income protection and Life Assurance
Working on tomorrow's capital
Do you have any questions? Please get in touch with Laure Calimez, Senior Recruiter at
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