Receptionist

Job Title: Receptionist

Location: Leicester, LE19 

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Receptionist 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 a Receptionist, you’ll benefit from:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• 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?

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Receptionist to work in our North Midlands office. This role typically reports to the Managing Director’s PA.

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

What you’ll do as a Receptionist

• General reception/switchboard duties maintaining first rate telephone cover the highest standard of Customer care using excellent communication skills and resolving queries to a satisfactory conclusion
• Ensuring that reception area is presentable and visitors are dealt with quickly and efficiently.
• Receipt and coordination of deliveries to relevant departments ensuring that they are notified and to facilitate prompt collection.
• Receipt and coordination of incoming and outgoing post
• 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
• Responsible for Feedback of incoming emails through Persimmon Internet site, ensuring that queries are dealt with and replied to effectively, efficiently and professionally.
• General assistance as requested by the MD’s PA.

What experience do I need?

• 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, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Ability to be well organised, self motivated with high attention to detail