Head of Customer Care

4 weeks ago


Houghton le Spring, United Kingdom Bellway Full time

At Bellway we recognise that people are the key to our success, and we are committed to building an inclusive culture that values and respects difference combined with creating a safe and inclusive working environment for all colleagues. This means we are positive about making adjustments as well as providing flexible working and we would be happy to talk to you about how this could work for you.

There is an exciting opportunity to join Bellway, one of the UK’s largest house builders. Our Durham Division, located in Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland is looking to recruit a Head of Customer Care to join the Division’s Customer Care team.

**The Role**

This role reports of the Division’s Managing Director.

Principal accountabilities of the role include:

- Efficiently and effectively improve and be responsible for Customer Care within the Division
- Take an active role in assisting the Division to meet its customer satisfaction targets, and to manage all customer-related issues through to resolution
- Manage the team of Customer Care staff effectively, to ensure that the Customer Care Department fully implements the Company’s Customer Care policy and procedures and to aim to deal with customer care issues professionally and quickly and to their complete satisfaction
- Visit customers, where required, and agree works in line with NHBC Standards and Bellway Homecare
- Liaise and co-ordinate with the Construction, Technical and Sales Departments to ensure Customer Care issues are minimised
- Ensure cost control is monitored for any works that are carried out
- Attend NHBC Resolutions and bring learning/feedback back to the workplace
- Act as the first point of call out on emergency situations from Safeguard

**Experience, Qualifications and Skills**

**Experience**
- Experience of working as a Customer Care Manager, ideally with a national housebuilder, housing association or council in a similar role.
- Previous experience of managing, motivating and supporting a team of staff

**Qualifications and Training**
- GCSE Maths and English - Grade 4+ (or equivalent)

**Skills and Aptitude**
- Effective listening skills
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Good administration skills
- Able to work to deadlines
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Proficient IT skills along with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and outlook)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Committed to diversity and inclusion

**The Role and Working Conditions**
- Willing to be flexible in respect to day to day duties and hours worked
- Ability to travel to all development sites, including the divisional office

**In return we can offer you**:

- Competitive salary
- Competitive car allowance
- Optional salary sacrifice car scheme
- Competitive annual bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Access to discounts and benefits portal
- ShareSave Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life assurance


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