Customer Care Office Manager in Thornaby-on-Tees

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Customer Care Office Manager and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes? We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year. At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers.

When you join us as Customer Care Office Manager you’ll benefit from:

• Commission
• 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Bonus
• Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

What is the role? As a Customer Care Office Manager, you’ll lead the Customer Care team to deliver an exceptional customer experience, ensuring high service standards, strong performance and effective resolution of customer issues. Working closely with the Customer Care Operations Manager and key stakeholders, you’ll help drive operational excellence and continuous improvement across the customer journey.

What you’ll do as a Customer Care Office Manager:

• Lead, develop and motivate the Customer Care team, setting clear expectations, conducting performance reviews, and providing coaching and training to achieve departmental KPIs and service standards.
• Oversee all customer communications, ensuring enquiries and concerns are managed professionally, efficiently and in line with Customer Care policies, procedures and service level expectations.
• Proactively manage customer escalations and support the effective resolution of formal complaints, ensuring positive customer outcomes wherever possible.
• Champion customer service excellence, driving improvements in customer satisfaction and NHBC survey performance and other industry customer experience standards.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective communication, timely resolution of customer issues and successful delivery of remedial works.
• Attend site meetings with customers, operational teams and contractors as required to support service delivery and issue resolution.
• Monitor departmental performance, compliance and governance, ensuring adherence to internal processes, the New Homes Quality Code, Health & Safety requirements and other regulatory obligations.
• Manage departmental systems, performance data and cost controls, including contra-charge processes, using insights to identify trends, drive improvements and support business objectives.

What experience do I need?

• Proven experience in customer service, including experience leading or managing a customer-facing team.
• Strong leadership, coaching and performance management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop others.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build positive relationships and manage challenging situations effectively.
• Strong customer focus, with experience of handling escalations, resolving issues and delivering excellent customer outcomes.
• Good organisational, problem-solving and prioritisation skills, with the ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint, with the ability to learn and utilise new systems quickly.