Office Administrator - Contract

2 Months ago • All levels • Administrative

Job Summary

Job Description

Playground Games seeks a Contract Office Administrator to join their Operations team. Based at their Royal Leamington Spa facilities, this role involves managing reception duties (greeting visitors, handling calls, deliveries), providing administrative support to the Operations team, ordering supplies (food, drinks, stationery), maintaining a clean and safe studio environment, assisting with events, managing the games library, and logging absences. The ideal candidate possesses excellent customer service skills, resourcefulness, flexibility, and a passion for supporting a workplace. The role requires interacting with internal teams and external visitors, demanding strong organizational and communication skills.
Must have:
  • Excellent customer service
  • Reception and admin support
  • Resourceful and flexible
  • MS Office proficiency
  • Supply ordering and management
  • Maintaining a safe and tidy workspace

Job Details

Description

Playground Games is looking for an Administrator to join our Operations team on a contract basis.  

About us: 

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun.  

About the role: 

As Administrator, you will be working closely with the wider Operations team, whilst being based front and centre on the reception desk. You will provide efficient reception, administrative and office support to the Studio. This role involves interacting with a variety of internal teams and disciplines, in addition to external visitors.  

You will be ordering resources for a busy studio and be responsible for keeping everything well stocked, providing efficient administration for all areas of the business, and supporting the co-ordination of events and studio goings on. This fast-paced role means you’ll be involved in a number of operational support activities at any one time.  

Our ideal candidate has excellent customer service skills, is resourceful and flexible, and excited to be a champion for Playground Games and everything we produce.  

This is a 12-month contract role based across our three state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa.  

What you’ll do: 

  • Host a busy reception, including meeting and greeting visitors, arranging NDAs and visitor badges, answering phone calls and accepting deliveries.  
  • Provide administrative and operational support to the wider Admin and Operations team for the day to day running of the studios.  
  • Accurately log sickness, duvet day requests and medical appointments within an online holiday system.  
  • Lead responsibility for ordering and replenishing the studios food and drink offering, as well as ordering cleaning supplies and stationery.  
  • Be responsible for maintaining a safe and tidy studio, including frequent checks and walk rounds.  
  • Assist with PG merchandise requests.   
  • Assist in the organisation and administration of PG events.  
  • Maintain the Games Library.  
  • Performing other duties as required.  
  • Be an ambassador for Playground Games and everything we do.  

What you’ll bring: 

  • Professional attitude and ability to work in a confidential manner. 
  • Flexibility to be involved in several operational support activities at a time, in a fast-paced environment.   
  • Experience in a customer facing role. 
  • Good working knowledge of MS Office inc Outlook, Excel, Word. 
  • A genuine passion for supporting a workplace and its team.  

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.  

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity.  We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.   

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members.  It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players.  We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.  

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work. 

If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com 

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