Development Manager

Job Description

We are Places for People Developments, we build thousands of well-designed, innovative homes across the UK each year. When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community.We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this We surround ourselveswith life changing people, commercial people and ambitious people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.More about your roleReporting to the Development Director in the Placemaking and Regeneration team, you will take a lead role in the daily operations of a number of key development projects. These could include playing a part in some of the most exciting regeneration projectsin the country including a proposed 8,500 home development at Gilston in East Hertfordshire, redeveloping the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as well as joint ventures with National Grid (over 30 sites nationally), Urban Splash and Runnymede Borough Council.You will be responsible for the management of business planning and financial appraisals and ensuring financial models are updated on a regular basis to ensuring accurate forecasting. You will also play a lead role in masterplanning and optimizing schemesto ensure maximum returns delivered for the business as well as identifying areas for cost saving and value adding, whilst still delivering a high-quality scheme that our customers are proud to call home.For more information please download our job profile available on our website.More about youWe are looking for an experienced Development Manager who is looking to progress their career, working on interesting and challenging regeneration projects. You should be able to demonstrate clear experience of working on large scale mixed tenure developmentand/or regeneration schemes which may have involved working with private and/or public sector partners.You will also need to be able to evidence at application stage an understanding of the UK planning system, emerging planning and development policies and local/national political agendas. You will also possess good masterplanning skills and able to demonstratea broad experience base working on a range of scales of projects through to delivery. It would also be advantageous if you had some exposure to leading bids and securing new opportunities.The benefitsWe are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.We know that theres always more we can do to make you smile, thats why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:

• Annual bonus
• Car or car allowance
• Excellent holiday pay and sick pay
• Pension with matched contributions
• Training
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.

Whats nextIf you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.