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England, United Kingdom

Watford, England, United Kingdom

Watford, England, United Kingdom

Ensure that WCH and Clarendon Living achieves high standards of performance in all areas of responsibility with particular focus on the achievement of the business plan, corporate objectives and the growth strategy.In conjunction with the Head of Land and New Business, establish project outputs to be achieved and provide a detailed project brief to approved consultants covering all standards required and notify site/project constraints.Ensure that all legal, planning, development and funding conditions/agreements and procedures are followed to allow the project to proceed through the gateway approvals process.Develop appropriate strategies and processes for the successful achievement of plans and targets, ensuring all regulatory and inspection requirements are met.Analyse and advise best tenure mix solutions to new development opportunities and provide supporting business case.Monitor and report on costs and progress of schemes (using Project Plans, Sequel workflow and risk matrix) to ensure they remain within budget, including accurate forecasting of costs in Sequel.Ensure all scheme files are up to date and comply with Homes England and audit requirements. Keep abreast of policy, funding and financial changes and seek out new business opportunities.Develop and maintain effective partnership working with other agencies and customers in delivering Clarendon Living’s goals, especially with regard to new developments and strategic alliances.Ensure the preparation of Clarendon Living’s, and associated Joint Ventures, annual and other budgets are completed and monitor and control them effectively.Represent WCH and Clarendon Living professionally and positively, delivering a message of excellence in all situations.Represent the Managing Director of Clarendon Living, Director of Development and Head of Land and New Business where necessary.

United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities• Site placement: Work with agents and land owners to identify land, build and tender opportunities, taking them to appropriate Clients, chasing offers and making offers on sites on behalf of TFD.• Tender Management: Taking tender opportunities from receipt, through the tender process until submission.• Planning: Identifying sites on a subject to planning basis and taking them through the planning process. This includes working with designers, planning consultants, consultants, planners, parish councils and any other relevant parties. • Client liaison: Manage own portfolio of Clients, Land Agents and consultants meeting with them and entertaining where appropriate. Using every available opportunity to grow the business through this forum.• Explore other ways to grow the business/ source more opportunities: Planning portal review, researching what Client frameworks exist, when they are due for renewal and who to contact in order to get on the list, researching/finding good land contacts, looking at schemes that have completed to establish who the client, Architect and EA were and then organise follow up meetings.. • Social Media Management: Correlating and monitoring all stories for Social Media, proof reading and posts and authorising their publication.• Marketing: Support the Partnerships Director in implementing new marketing procedures, updating the website and undertaking new marketing projects.• Estimating: Carrying out basic estimates to more simple sites, visiting sites, liaising with relevant third parties ie. Construction Director, Estimator, designer where appropriate.• Monitoring: Monitor scheme opportunities and progress through the appropriate data sheets, overseeing their production fortnightly.

Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities• Supporting project managers on key international projects with for blue chip manufacturers.• Preparing and submitting type approval applications to government regulatory authorities.• Tracking project statuses.• Solving problems and proactively driving the type approval process to ensure deadlines are met.• Review technical product documents and prepare and pre-test engineering samples.• Preparing quotes and answering key customer queries.Key Successes• Was a part of the account management team that received the largest order ever placed by our 3rd largest client.• Was placed into a customer facing role within my first 2 months, further highlighting my customer service and relationship building skills.• Built strong relationships with the local Authorities in my key countries, allowing for solid delivery on customer deadlines.• My technical skills and ability to learn new tasks quickly allowed for me to be placed in a more technical role, reviewing technical documents, which was initially not part of my job description.

Winslow

Key Responsibilities• Hunter driven lead generation.• Working alongside the Manging Director on issues such as pricing, marketing and business strategy.• Streamlining the business to maintain efficiency.• Management of the office administration team.• Customer account management including upselling wherever possible.• Administrative duties as required including diary and spreadsheet management/maintenance.• Implementation of systems and processes to enable efficient completion of customer requests.• Analysis of business strategy to provide important information, enabling fast paced business decisions.• Effective resolution of customer queries.• Creating and updating documents within the Microsoft Office suite. Key Successes• Responsible for a project involving a client’s payment certificate process. An advanced Excel spreadsheet database was created alongside a Microsoft Word mail merge to create an extremely efficient process. This system allowed for fewer checks to be performed on the data, leading to a much reduced risk of error and cut the time spent on the tasks by 25% a month.• Grew several client accounts through management of effective client relationships. • Responsible for the purchase of a new multi-functional printer including forecasting the return on investment over various price structures and circumstances.• Implemented a price increase which boosted the revenue of the business by 108% in the following business year.• Assisted the bookkeeper and accountant on various client accounts wherever required.

Winslow

Key Responsibilities• Organising the bar and restaurant ready for service• Arranging customer bookings efficiently• Assisting with monthly stock takes• Preparing and delivering the weekly quiz• Delegating jobs to newer staff• Liaising with the general public• Thorough knowledge of all products to advise customers accordingly• Effective cellar management to uphold the Caske Marque of the pub• Cashing up at the end of a shiftKey Successes• Stabilised team morale and performance after the manager walked out on one of the busiest nights of the year • Very efficient at events promotion, securing important bookings• Continually meeting or exceeding daily targets set by the management• Part of the team that took the most money of any night in the history of the pub • Frequently complimented on the weekly quiz leading to the increase in teams from 5 to 15 • Encouraged and achieved positive trip advisor reviews, adding to potential business• First member of staff to be outsourced within the business to facilitate specialist functions (e.g. Weddings)• Calming potential friction between customers and clientele

Key Responsibilities • Silver service for weddings and functions for one of the best voted hotels in the area• Exceeding customer standards in presentation where other businesses would fail• Effective cellar management Key Successes• Balancing my work with my A-Level revision whilst still achieving very good grades• Ability to think outside the box to deal with unexpected problems or scenarios, to uphold the reputation of the business

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical And Biological Engineering

Activities and Societies: Poker Society Modules included: Energy and the Environment Transport & Separation Oil & Gas Utilisation Chemical.

High School

A Levels (Maths A, Biology B, Chemistry B 10 GCSE’s (A*-B Including A in Maths and English)