Client Service Assistant

Job description

Location: Doha
Hours: Full-time office based, 08:30am to 17:30pm or 09:30am to 18:30pm, Monday to Friday

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

The role

The Client Services Assistant plays a key role in delivering a seamless, professional and welcoming experience for clients, visitors and colleagues within the office. This highly visible, hands-on role combines front-of-house hospitality with back-of-house workplace and facilities support, ensuring meeting rooms, client areas and office services operate efficiently and to a consistently high standard. The role supports day-to-day office operations, facilities, health and safety and supplier coordination, while maintaining a client-focused, discreet and service-oriented approach at all times.

What you'll be doing

  • Deliver a professional and welcoming experience for clients, visitors and colleagues, acting as a key point of contact within the office.
  • Manage meeting room operations, including room bookings, set-up and reset, catering coordination, equipment support and daily room inspections.
  • Support the delivery of client meetings, internal events and presentations, ensuring rooms, technology and hospitality services are prepared to a high standard.
  • Coordinate visitor management processes, including access passes, desk bookings, new joiner support and client arrival arrangements.
  • Operate the office switchboard, ensuring calls are answered promptly, directed appropriately and messages are recorded accurately.
  • Manage incoming and outgoing post, courier services, deliveries, archiving requirements and related records.
  • Provide document and administrative support, including printing, scanning, copying, binding and business card management.
  • Maintain stationery, catering and pantry supplies, ensuring stock levels are monitored and replenished as required.
  • Conduct regular office inspections, monitoring housekeeping, presentation standards, maintenance issues and health and safety risks.
  • Liaise with contractors, suppliers and building management to help ensure the workplace remains safe, efficient and well maintained.
  • Support wider facilities and workplace operations, including access control, invoice administration and office moves or reconfigurations where required.

What we're looking for

  • Relevant experience in customer services, preferably within professional services, corporate environment or hospitality.
  • Confidence managing multiple operational priorities across a busy environment.
  • Strong customer service skills with the ability to build relationships with clients, visitors and colleagues at all levels.
  • Strong organisation skills and attention to detail.
  • Comfortable using workplace technology and booking systems.
  • A flexible and hands-on approach, including supporting room set-ups and ad hoc operational requirements.
  • A proactive mindset and willingness to take ownership for ensuring the office and client areas operate smoothly.

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our recruitment team will share the outcome with you. We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

If you enjoy being at the centre of a busy office environment and take pride in creating a seamless workplace experience for clients, visitors and colleagues, we would like to hear from you.

Back to blog

Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

This is what this question poses: When do you focus and start working seriously? What are the hours you work optimally? Are you a night owl? A morning bird? Remote teams can be made up of people working on different shifts and around the world, so you won't necessarily be stuck in the 9-5 schedule if it's not for you...

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

When you're working on a remote team, there's no way to chat in the hallway between meetings or catch up on the latest project during an office carpool. Therefore, virtual communication will be absolutely essential to get your work done...

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

Many people want to work remotely because of the flexibility it allows. You can work anywhere and at any time of the day...

4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

With this question, companies are looking to see what equipment they may need to provide you with and to verify how aware you are of what remote working could mean for you physically and logistically...

5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

Several years ago, I was working in a team to plan a big event. My supervisor made us all work as a team before the big day. One of our activities has been to find out how each of us processes information...

6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

Or you may receive even more specific questions, such as: What's on your calendar? Do you plan blocks of time to do certain types of work? Do you have an open calendar that everyone can see?...

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

Just like your schedule, how you track files and other information is very important. After all, everything is digital!...

8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

The day I watched Marie Forleo's film separating the important from the urgent, my life changed. Not all remote jobs start fast, but most of them are...

9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

Just as communication is essential when working remotely, so is organization. Because you won't have those opportunities in the elevator or a casual conversation in the lunchroom, you should take advantage of the little time you have in a video or phone conference...

10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

This is a great question because it shows your comfort level with technology, which is very important for a remote worker because you will be working with technology over time...