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Office Manager

Velocity Risk
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 2/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/21/2025

About Velocity Risk

By innovating the connection of risk and capital, Velocity Risk delivers specialty property insurance in catastrophe prone communities. Embracing Nature's volatility and turning "problems" into potential, we are transforming old insurance practices. Our uncommon approach to business creates uncommon careers where employees are empowered to flourish.

Are you looking to join an innovative, collaborative team environment that allows you to learn from others and grow in your career? Do you enjoy finding opportunities to improve processes and increase operating efficiencies? Are you a service-hearted individual who goes above and beyond for team member's experience while in office? Do you like planning events and having fun with a team? If you do, you are just the type of person that will fit into our distinctive culture.

About the role

The Office Manager of Velocity's Chicago firm will report to the Senior Office Manager in Birmingham, AL with a dotted line to the AVP of MMB, Chicago Branch Manager. You will play a vital role in building a fun, inclusive, and enjoyable environment for the office. Through event planning and engagement activities to supporting the administrative functions of the office, you will lead the culture and operational success of this location.

What you'll do

Key Responsibilities

Provide engagement activities and creative culture-building initiatives for the Nashville office : This includes coordinating with the Office Manager and People Business partner in organizing and facilitating corporate events and special functions for a symbiotic culture experience.

  • Serve as a point of contact for local vendors
  • Monitor and maintain office equipment, inventory supplies, and order replacement supplies as needed.
  • Manager in-house employee lunch process
  • Coordinate monthly birthday celebrations
  • Organize and facilitate corporate events, special functions, etc.
  • Support Executive Assistants with Senior Leadership events and the annual All Hands.
  • Manage all incoming and outgoing mail, including those with confidential information.
  • Perform clerical work for departments as Executive Officers and Business Unit leaders requested.
  • Managing the day-to-day office functions
  • Other projects and duties as assigned

Core Competencies :

You will thrive in this position if you have these core capabilities...

  • Collaboration and a spirit of Camaraderie
  • Self-directed as someone who proactively takes ownership
  • Comfortable in your ability to identify opportunities to create efficiency
  • Communication - superb skills in writing and verbally communicating
  • Digging into the details
  • Highly organized and good time management
  • Problem-solving - creatively troubleshoot and find solutions
  • Able to manage through ambiguity and competing priorities; and
  • Known for your can-do, make it happen attitude.
  • Qualifications

    Previous office administration experience preferred but not required

  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Proficiency in MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook).
  • Ability to multitask and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
  • High school diploma or a bachelor's degree in business, administration, or a related field.
  • Familiarity with office management procedures.
  • Comfortable handling confidential information.
  • Superb written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong time-management and multitasking abilities.
  • Velocity Risk provides equal opportunity to everyone, and we do not tolerate discrimination or harassment to anyone.
  • Velocity Risk provides equal opportunity to everyone and we do not tolerate discrimination or harassment to anyone.

    We strive to ensure our employees have the best experience possible! We provide comprehensive and competitive benefits packs for our full-time employees.

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision fully subsidized by Velocity
  • Health Savings Account with employer contributions
  • 401k after 6 months of employment
  • Education and Certification Reimbursement and Bonus programs
  • Paid Time off and Company Holidays with floating holidays for flexibility.
  • Gym membership reimbursements
  • Volunteer rewards and "Give-back" initiatives.
  • In-office provided lunch
  • We are a hybrid team : 2 days remote, 3 days in-office.
  • We are a hybrid team (2 days remote, 3 days in office).

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