Receptionist

From the commitment we pour into our homes, to the belief we bring to supporting amazing careers, a role at Persimmon is a springboard for Building Your New Possible. Discover new opportunities to grow, learn new skills and release your potential.

We’re Persimmon Homes, a FTSE 100 listed company and a leading UK house builder serving local communities across the UK and delivering around 15,000 homes a year. We have 30 operating businesses in England, Wales and Scotland, three house-building brands and three off-site manufacturing facilities.

**We’re looking for people like you, and this could be your opportunity to start Building Your New Possible.**

**What is the role?**

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Receptionist to work in our South Coast office. This role typically report to the Managing Director’s PA.

The purpose of the role is to ensuring all paperwork in relation to Persimmon departments and regional offices are sorted and distributed effectively and efficiently.

**The role will include**:

- General reception/switchboard duties including ensuring that reception area is presentable and visitors are dealt with quickly and efficiently.
- Receipt and co-ordination of deliveries to relevant departments ensuring that they are notified and to facilitate prompt collection.
- Responsibility for allocation, booking and co-ordination of meeting rooms, together with good organisational skills.
- To provide and perform general administration and secretarial support using own initiative and self motivation where necessary including utilisation of your good level of computer literacy and excellent typing skills thereby ensuring work is processed confidentially, accurately and to a high standard.
- Assist in reception cover over lunch breaks, holidays and when deemed necessary thereby maintaining first-rate telephone cover the highest standard of Customer care using excellent communication skills and resolving queries to a satisfactory conclusion.
- Ordering of office stationery

**What we need from you?**
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Previous experience within an office environment
- Computer literate with experience of a number of different packages including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
- Ability to be well organised, self-motivated with high attention to detail
- Flexibility to be able to cover holiday for morning receptionist

**What’s in it for you?**

Salary and benefits package
- Competitive Salary (DOE)
- Pension
- Bonus

**Persimmon are Proud Sponsors of Team GB**

**No Agencies please** - Persimmon will not accept speculative CVs as a means of introduction
- Persimmon is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination._
- Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best._