Kian Nelis

• Organised multiple marketing and sales events to engage clients and attract new business opportunities being at both external construction fairs and internally held events.
• Maintained organised workload planning, tracking progress on various estimations and ensuring coordination with stakeholders.
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring strict adherence to deadlines while maintaining high levels of accuracy.
• Created Excel-based reports and PowerPoint presentations to present project cost analysis and proposals.
• Utilise Excel for data analysis, reporting, and administrative tasks related to compliance and finance.
• Conducted market research for competitive pricing analysis.
• Managed large sets of compliance data and took responsibility for ensuring all documentation for schemes were stored correctly and was meeting compliance standards.

Key Achievements

Identified a more cost-effective supplier for construction materials by conducting detailed market research and cost comparisons across multiple vendors. Led negotiations to onboard this supplier onto our approved list, ensuring they met our quality standards and compliance requirements.

Streamlined quote preparation process, using V and X lookup on Excel as well as, overhauling the process to issue out scheme awards to ensure 100% compliance.

100% 12 month rolling average SLA met

Overview

• Led the permanent white-collar construction division across Nottingham, Derby, and Staffordshire,
• Conducted market research and data analysis to identify hiring trends, providing strategic insights to clients and internal teams.
• led multiple marketing campaigns for clients, candidates and events (key stats noted in achievements below).
• Organised and participated in career fairs and networking events to promote the recruitment agency's services (Clients and Candidates).
• Developed and maintained strong relationships with clients, leading to exclusive and repeat business.
• Used data-driven insights and marketing techniques to attract and engage new clients and candidates
• Delivered a careers presentation at Nottingham Trent University, demonstrating strong communication and public speaking skills.
• Managed compliance and payroll processes, ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices. demonstrating strong communication and public speaking skills.
• Worked in a fast-paced, target-driven environment, meeting and exceeding KPI expectations for client meetings, candidate interviews, and successful placements.
• Implemented efficient time management and workflow prioritisation techniques to balance candidate sourcing, client engagement, and administrative tasks.

Key Achievements

Conducted an in-depth market mapping analysis of the construction sector, identifying the fit-out sector as the most active and high-demand area. Strategically focused recruitment efforts on this sector, developing a tailored client engagement approach that led to a 25% increase in job placements during a difficult time for the construction sector. This ultimately led to me leading monthly market mapping sessions with my counterparts.

Led email marketing campaigns for my sector with weekly and bi weekly content. Within 2 months, reduced email bounce back rate by 75%. Across 3 months, achieved a 24% CTR and increased email open rates by nearly 100%. This was possible through data cleansing to update email addresses as well as testing different subject lines and personalisation.

Part time employment during university studies.

• Assisted in developing marketing materials and standardised reports to support business development and sales performance.
• Conducted competitor analysis to inform sales strategies and support marketing campaigns targeting key clients.
• Worked closely with the marketing team to support the delivery of sales presentations and customer engagement initiatives.