A professional with a strong background in customer care and complaints handling, complemented by vast knowledge in property and construction, demonstrating exceptional communication skills and confident at engaging with stakeholders/suppliers/customers at various levels.
Skilled in relationship management with contracts and suppliers, adept at multitasking, and detail-oriented.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work history
Facilities Co Ordinator (Facilities Management)
St James's Place Wealth Management
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
02.2023 - Current
Facilities management in the South, Central and London regions for SJP.
Responded to building emergencies and managed repairs.
Investigated reactive maintenance problems efficiently and determined most appropriate and cost-effective remedies alongside our on-site maintenance contractors.
Communicating with partnerships, customers, suppliers and external stakeholders daily, building strong relationships and foundations.
Planned and coordinated preventative maintenance and reactive repair work.
Coordinated cleaning staff to maintain good building hygiene standards.
Used strong leadership and administrative abilities to maintain smooth office operations.
Responded to, researched and resolved issues from internal staff, external departments and service users.
Project management support on office fit outs and moves.
Assistant Development Manager
Campbell Property
Elkstone, Cheltenham
08.2022 - 02.2023
Acquisitions & Transactions Management Support:
- Administrative support on producing FFE budgets.
- Verifying HMO amenity standards.
- Creating simple floor plans for design due diligence.
Design
- Producing kitchen plans and adjusting where needed.
- Producing furniture layouts to contractors.
- Producing interior design schemes and colour palettes.
Main Contract Tender & Management:
- Assisting development managers with the production of employers' requirements.
- Assisting development managers with site visits, variation requests, and valuations.
FFE Procurement & Installation
- Identifying, engaging, and liaising with suppliers for the timely procurement & delivery of FFE.
- Ensuring supplier H&S requirements are managed appropriately on site.
- On-site project management of FFE suppliers, cleaners, and trades.
- On-site snagging and quality control upon completion.
Mobilisation
- Updating business systems with property & inventory specifications.
- Setting up and handing over guarantees and warranties to the property services team.
- Advising the sales and marketing teams on property design & specification.
Programme Management:
- Adhering to the department's communications strategy.
- Updating the key communications log.
- Effectively communicating with external consultants and suppliers.
- Adhering to the department's task management strategy.
- Managing Teamwork (task management system) task lists.
- Adhering to the department's risk management strategy.
- Participating in lessons learnt workshops.
- Contributing to risk registers.
Customer Care Administrator
David Wilson Homes
Hungerford, West Berkshire
11.2019 - 08.2022
Dedicated Office Administrator and customer care coordinator in a fast-paced new build homes business.
Complaints handling and management.
Liaising with contractors and site teams daily.
Liaising with site managers regarding defects and approving them.
Raising, tracking, and monitoring defects and snagging.
Creating site snagging lists of homes relevant to sites I was managing.
Cover of Customer Care Manager.
Dealing with customers daily.
Overseeing invoices and processing them.
Updating calendars for operation managers arranging their site visits.
Provided strategic administrative support.
Addressed customer enquiries via email and telephone, ensuring quick and quality responses regarding defects and complaints.
Solved customer issues, routing them to the appropriate department when necessary such as technical, land, commercial.
Enhanced electronic filing methods to be more cohesive and effective.
Created performance reports for management and directors to review.
Utilized strong multitasking skills.
Education
IOSH
2023
PRINCE2 foundation and practitioner course -
David Wilson Homes
2022
Business Administration Apprenticeship -
Great Western Hospital, David Wilson Homes
2018
St Josephs Catholic College
07.2016
Skills
Strong customer care background/complaints handling
Vast knowledge in property and construction
Microsoft Office
Communication Skills
Detail Oriented
Multitasking Skills
Confident at communicating at many levels
Relationship management with various contracts and suppliers