Customer Care Coordinator

Join Persimmon Homes as Customer Care Coordinator

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

We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established house builders — 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 Coordinator, you’ll benefit from:

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

This is an exciting opportunity to join the customer care team as a Customer Care Coordinator. You will play a leading role in ensuring that our customers feel genuinely supported and cared for - coordinating the resolution of issues in their homes with speed, professionalism, and empathy. You will be the vital link between our customers, contractors, and internal teams, making sure that every step of the journey runs smoothly and meets our high service standards.

• Act as the first point of contact for homeowners, managing queries across phone, email and customer portals with professionalism and empathy.
• Take ownership of your portfolio, proactively communicating updates and diagnosing issues to ensure timely and effective resolutions.
• Log all customer interactions accurately in COINS and maintain clear records.
• Coordinate works by scheduling maintenance operatives and subcontractors’ appointments and monitor progress through to completion while keeping customers informed throughout.
• Conduct courtesy calls to monitor satisfaction and deliver against agreed SLAs, aiming to exceed expectations.
• Build strong relationships with contractors and internal teams, liaising with specialists where required.
• Attend site visits when necessary to support customers and operational teams.
• Monitor activity against the Customer Care Timeline, ensuring compliance with the New Homes Quality Code and supporting continuous improvement, including HBF 5-star standards.
• Provide administrative support, including documentation, contra-charging and general office duties.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build rapport and manage sensitive customer interactions.
• Proven experience handling, containing, and de-escalating customer complaints to achieve positive outcomes.
• Previous complaints management and resolution experience, ideally within a regulated environment such as the New Homes Quality Code.
• Strong case management skills, with the ability to prioritise workloads and meet strict Ombudsman and regulatory deadlines.
• Confident reviewing complex complaint cases and presenting resolution recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Customer-focused, taking ownership of complaints from receipt through to resolution while striving to exceed satisfaction targets.
• Calm and resilient under pressure, with strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Highly organised and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and comfortable learning new systems (COINS experience advantageous).
• Collaborative team player with flexibility, initiative, and a commitment to delivering fair customer outcomes.
• Full driving licence and access to a vehicle desirable for site visits.