Office Administrator
| Posting date: | 09 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £28,000.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 October 2025 |
| Location: | Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 0XJ |
| Company: | Travail Employment Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JO0000016486_1760002548 |
Summary
Office Administrator
£28,000 plus bonus and profit share scheme, Outskirts of Knaresborough, 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, early finish on Thursday & Friday, free food and on site events, social events, health cash plan, free on site parking, employee discount, training and progression available.
Due to internal promotion we are looking for a friendly and customer focused office administrator for this well established family business based on the outskirts of Knaresborough.
This is an interesting and varied office administrator position that will enable you to work on various administrative projects. You will predominantly support the sales and operations teams along with providing some reception duties, meeting and greeting clients and visitors and taking incoming customer calls.
As Office Administrator you will be the face and voice of the company as you will be the first point of contact for all visitors and incoming calls. Training will be provided but we are looking for someone who is friendly, confident on a computer and keen to be part of a busy office team. You will spend three days working in the busy sales and operations office and two days of the week on the front reception desk. You will have good organisational and administration skills and should be able to work with numbers and large sets of data.
Office Administrator responsibilities will include:
- Supporting with various administrative projects
- Supporting the sales team with providing quotes and estimations
- Training and learning the product names
- Speaking to customers and building relationships
- Providing substitutions or alternative products
- Checking and monitoring orders, paying attention to the number and quantities
- Entering numerical data into a spreadsheet for quotes and estimating purposes
- Working with shared folders to support various departments with their current workload
- Checking stock management system and allocating stock for orders
- Answer incoming calls and transfer calls through the switchboard
- Ensure all visitors sign in & following health and safety procedures
- Booking and setting up meeting rooms & providing refreshments for visitors
- Ensure the entrance area is tidy and welcoming at all times
Requirements for this role:
- Have a good level of English and maths, GCSE or equivalent
- Good IT skills and competent with Microsoft Office & Teams
- Professional and friendly telephone manner
- Excellent customer service skills
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Will require a good head for numbers and attention to detail
- Previous office administration experience
- Able to multi task and
This is a full time office based role, you will work 39 hours per week alongside a friendly team of people. If you are interested in this role please don't delay in applying as we are arranging interviews immediately!
Due to the volume of applicants if we have not contacted you within 14 days you may not have been successful for this position but please feel free to give us a call to discuss similar roles.
Travail has been established since 1977 and has branches nationwide. Our Harrogate branch was opened in 1995 and has five specialist consultants who each deal with different market sectors.
Working closely with candidates from all market sectors we are confident in matching the right people for the right jobs.
Travail Employment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.