Office Manager (Maternity Cover 12 Months)
Job Summary
We are seeking an Office Manager who can bring a fresh perspective and innovative ideas to our London office. You will have a keen eye for detail exceptional organisational skills and a proactive mindset to anticipate and address the evolving needs of our team. Building and maintaining positive relationships with our employees supporting their well-being and contributing to our offices thriving culture will be central to success in this role. You will play a pivotal role in creating a welcoming and efficient office space that reflects our values and supports our team members. This is a maternity cover role for 12 months.
What youll be doing:
Employee Experience
- Own the annual events plan and communicate the quarterly cadence of programming to employees.
- Plan and execute monthly office events team lunches and ad hoc activities that foster a vibrant inclusive in-office culture.
- Lead the office culture committee driving engagement initiatives and ensuring a consistent community-oriented experience across the team.
- Lead a consistent and meaningful onboarding experience for new hires from coordinating security passes and setting up laptops to preparing welcome kits and swag running orientation presentations and giving a warm office tour on day one.
- Manage offboarding logistics including deactivating building passes and collecting company equipment.
- Coordinate catering for hub days team meetings and company events ensuring a great in-office experience.
- Drive internal workplace communications via Slack and other channels keeping employees informed of office updates events and building notices.
Workplace Management
- Serve as the first point of contact for employees and visitors providing a professional and warm welcome to the office.
- Manage regular ordering of snacks drinks and office supplies maintaining organised inventory and storage systems.
- Act as a pulse check on employee sentiment sending regular surveys and gathering informal feedback to understand office needs and flag themes that shape a better in-office experience.
- Conduct regular walk-throughs of the office meeting rooms and communal areas to ensure tidiness and a high-quality environment restocking supplies as needed.
- Manage office attendance and visitor management greeting guests of executives and new hires with care and professionalism.
- Coordinate with facilities vendors and the landlord to manage maintenance repairs and service issues
Office Support
- Provide IT support for onsite setups upgrades troubleshooting and Wi-Fi issues.
- Process financial administration via Zip uploading receipts managing card allowances and submitting purchase order requests.
- Track Employee Experience and event budgets
What youll need:
- 4 years of experience in office management administration or coordination ideally within a fast-paced tech or scale-up environment.
- Proven ability to organise and execute employee engagement initiatives and events
- Facilities management experience with an understanding of vendor coordination and day-to-day operations.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the confidence to collaborate across teams and engage employees at all levels.
- Highly organised detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- A proactive self-starter who takes ownership and works well with minimal supervision.
- Customer-service mindset you genuinely care about creating a great experience for everyone in the office.
About us:
Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerfulit can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a companys connection with its customers. How do we do it Forter was founded on the insight that its not about what is being purchased nor where but who is behind the interaction.
The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customersensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. Were meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.
Trust is backed by data Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards including:
- Great Place to Work Certification (2025)
- Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYC (and 2025)
- Forbes Cloud 100 (and2025)
- Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
Life as a Forterian:
We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013 weve raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global Bessemer Sequoia Capital March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Were on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe ASOS eBay Instacart Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud drive revenue and improve customer experience.
At Forter we believe unique people create unique ideas and valuable experience comes in many forms. So even if your background doesnt match everything we have listed in the job description we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives we grow together as humans and as a company.
Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion gender sexual orientation marital status gender identity or expression national origin genetics age disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please email us at. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.Required Experience:
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About Company
Forter provides new generation fraud prevention to meet the challenges faced by modern enterprise e-commerce. Only Forter provides fully automated, real-time Decision as a Serviceâ„¢ fraud prevention, with approve/decline decisions backed by a 100% chargeback guarantee. The system elimi ... View more