Receptionist - Part-Time - 3 days a week
Requisition ID: 185752
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Business Process, Systems & CI
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Part-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Nova Scotia
City: Dartmouth
Location: Dartmouth Office
Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
Our Office Services Team in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia is searching for a Receptionist. The Receptionist is the first point of contact for staff and visitors. They set the tone for an engaging experience with our Sobeys office team. In this customer service focused role, the successful candidate will respond to general inquiries via the switchboard, in person interactions or email. If you have excellent interpersonal skills, great communication abilities, and a passion for customer service, this role is for you. This is a part-time position that is 3 days a week. This is an in-office based role.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Greet staff and visitors with a welcoming attitude and an eagerness to assist.
- Answer all incoming telephone calls, take messages, and direct calls to the appropriate personnel.
- Manage all visitors’ arrival, transition to their host(s) and departure.
- Assign visitor passes and manage the visitor calendar/log.
- Issue temporary accesses badges, maintain the log and manage inventory control.
- Action the Access card appointments and issue access card badge requests, onboarding, exiting, remote access.
- Manage all documentation pertinent to reception
- Support the Mailroom, shipping and receiving
- Manage 3rd party’s access to the property
- Support safety/emergency procedure
What you have to offer:
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Computer skills: Microsoft Office, email.
- Highly organized, efficient, ability to prioritize and a self-starter in a multi-tasking environment.
- Excellent communication skills. (Spoken and written).
- Must be a team player and work well with others.
At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.
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We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:
- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
- A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Parental leave top-up
- Paid Vacation and Days-off
We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.