Salary £41,725 per annum plus benefits
Location Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire (Hybrid Working)
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Permanent, Full Time  

37 hours per week (Monday – Friday, Flexibility Negotiable)  

Are you a people-focused leader with a passion for delivering outstanding customer experiences? At Thrive, we’re looking for a Customer Service Centre Manager to lead our dedicated team in providing responsive, high-quality support across all contact channels - including digital, phone, email, text, and written correspondence. 

This is more than just a management role, it’s an opportunity to shape how thousands of customers access and experience the services that help them feel secure and supported in their homes, including the smooth handling of service requests and repairs. If you're driven by service excellence, team development, and continuous improvement, we’d love to hear from you. 

We own and manage nearly 6,000 homes throughout Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire delivering much-needed homes for social and affordable rent, intermediate rent, leasehold, shared ownership and private market rent 

We offer flexible homeworking with this position, and you will be required to attend our office once a week. 

Responsibilities:  

  • Manage a team of customer service advisers and coordinators to meet performance expectations and deliver excellent service across multiple contact channels (telephone, digital, email, and written correspondence).  

  • Oversee the daily operations of the customer services team, ensuring housing-based service requests and repairs are efficiently triaged, scheduled, and resolved in line with Thrive’s standards.  

  • Ensure repairs are scheduled and progressed effectively to meet required timescales, maximising first-time fix and driving customer satisfaction.  

  • Monitor and report on key service performance indicators, including contact volumes, response times, first contact resolution, and appointment adherence. 

  • Provide regular analysis of customer contact trends - such as channel usage (e.g. online portal, phone wrap codes), transaction types, and digital engagement - to support informed decision-making and service design.  

  • Conduct quality assurance checks to ensure service standards are met, processes are followed, and to identify trends, training needs, or areas for improvement - taking action to implement necessary changes.  

  • Develop and implement customer service policies, procedures, and relevant training to the team and wider business.  

  • Manage contracts for out-of-hours call handling and telephony provision.  

  • Provide technical support and training on the use of the telephony system, working closely with IT to ensure it meets operational needs.  

  • Contribute to the development of systems and processes that enhance customer experience, appointment scheduling, and overall service efficiency. 

  

Requirements:  

  • Strong experience managing customer service teams. 

  • Strong reporting and trend analysis skills. 

  • Advanced Excel and data handling skills. 

  • Direct experience in customer service within housing and/or planning services would be beneficial.  

  • Experience in service improvement, quality assurance, or process development (essential) 

Closing date: 7th July 2025  

Interviews Dates: To be confirmed  

Specific roles within Thrive are subject to a basic DBS check, the successful applicant(s) will be contacted by our People Team if this applies to their role.  

We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible.  

The Company

Thrive Homes is an award-winning housing association with a strong track record in the housing sector and ambitious plans. Thrive exists to provide good quality affordable homes and services enabling the development of communities where people can Thrive. We manage over 5,000 properties and are continuing to build new homes each year.

Thrive is proud to deliver flexibility for employees to work in a manner that suits their wants/needs best. Our SMART working policy allows individuals to take full control of their productivity by offering a choice between working in-house or away from the office. This means that successful candidates have the freedom to work as little or as often as they like from Thrive's state of the art offices.

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  • Innovation

We are creative and fearless in our work.

  • Accountability

We take ownership of our work and lead from the front.

  • Teamwork

We collaborate widely and build supportive environments.

Generous family friendly provision

Pension
we will pay double your contribution (up to 10%).

Discretionary Bonus

Life assurance
a payment of 3x your salary

Virtual GP Service
(available 24/7)

Wellbeing reward scheme
(earn vouchers through a health app)

Free Financial Advisor service
(includes savings, mortgage, debt & pension advice)

A range of engagement activities aimed at building team morale, supporting both physical and mental health, and celebrating all things that make us different!

Flexible benefit scheme (up to £900 p/a) you have access to the following optional benefits:
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Buy or Sell annual leave
You will receive basic 25 days annual leave p/a increasing by length of service (up to 30 days)

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Cycle to work

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Retail Vouchers & Discount Scheme

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Car Benefit scheme

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Health Cash Plan
facility to claim cashback for dental, optical and physiotherapy costs, alongside wellness services.

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Annual Health Screening
(BUPA)

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Thrive’s Approach

Thrive is an exciting place to work. We challenge ourselves and others to deliver results and think differently. We share positive experiences and messages, with trust and respect at the core of every relationship. Our leaders adopt a coaching and mentoring approach - enabling and empowering others to deliver. We embrace change and encourage a strong focus on positive outcomes. We value agile working arrangements from our offices in Apsley, Hertfordshire and we pride ourselves on looking after our colleagues by offering progressive careers and a full range of modern benefits.We continue to grow as an organisation and aim to attract the very best people.

Thrive homes are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This commitment is at the core of our understanding the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. We actively encourage all applicants that are suitable for the role, from diverse career paths and backgrounds and from all sections of the community.

As committed members of Inclusive Employers and a Disability Confident Committed employer, we remain steadfast to a fair recruitment process. If you have any accessibility needs and require reasonable adjustment, please contact us.

Specific roles at Thrive are subject to a basic DBS check.