Joshua Burns

Experience

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  On Site Kitchen Rentals Ltd

  Jul 2006 - now

  • Responsible for the management of individual projects, reporting to Managing Director and acting as the Lead Project Manager assuming control for around 1-3 project at any one time. • Assumed additional responsibilities for managing all kitchen installations from design through to installation for key commercial customers across the Hospitality, Healthcare, Construction, Sports and Media sectors.• Report directly to Sales Director and leading a team of 14 including engineers and labourers, handling multiple simultaneous projects with average durations of around 2 months.• Work alongside Sales Director to make initial contact with customers, attending face-to-face meetings to discuss detailed requirements and providing initial designs for temporary facilities using AutoCAD. • Develop project plans using MS Project and assign appropriate resources including external 3rd party trades and sub-contractors, preparing detailed financial cost breakdowns and coordinating the allocation of all tasks. • Attend sites located across the UK on regular basis to oversee progress and mitigate risks, monitoring progress and meeting with customer to report progress, verifying all costs and timesheets prior to approval. • Devise social media and marketing strategy for organisation including writing content for advertisements, setting up Facebook pages and designing the layout and content for company website, liaising with external Web Developer. • Detail planning of all future confirmed projects and ensuring availability of equipment and resources to facilitate overall delivery of projects, meeting with customers on a regular basis to discuss further requirements and sell services.• Developed detailed project plans and assigned resources and liaising with customers to advise on progress, attending on-site to oversee installations and coordinate 3rd Party contractors including Electricians and Gas Fitters. عرض أقل • Joined organisation to initially assist with installations then progressed into more office based administrative role which involved dealing with initial customer enquiries and working alongside the Sales Director to set up quotations. • Reported to Sales Director and attended face-to-face meetings with customers to gather requirements including setting out quotations and developing initial designs of temporary facilities utilising CAD. • Handed over confirmed customer projects to Project Manager and coordinated the scheduling of the installation, feeding across initial quotation details and cost estimates to assist in overall budgeting. • Produced new in direct sales routes with other industry suppliers as a partnership.• Performed general marketing duties including scripting for publications and leaflets, overseeing artwork for external literature and coordinating photographs and videos of installations to be used on promotional documentation. • Coordinated all service work following reports of faults and breakdowns of equipment, scheduling Service Engineers and liaising with customer to communicate expected resolution dates and timescales. • Following up new business opportunities and setting up meetings• Planning and preparing presentations • Communicating new product developments to prospective clients عرض أقل

  • Project Director

    Jan 2018 - now

  • Project Manager

    Apr 2010 - now

  • Business Development Manager

    Jul 2006 - Apr 2010

  • Sales & Kitchen Installations

    Jul 2006 - May 2008