Senior Development Manager

We have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Development Manager to join us, you’ll be based out of our head office in Bristol, combining office and home working to ensure a positive work/life balance. It's an exciting time to join us to help us deliver our ambitious development programme of 25,000 new homes over the next 10 years.  

What you'll be doing 

Reporting to the Head of Major Projects this role will ensure the identification and acquisition of significant new developer-led, land-led and/or regeneration opportunities within the region, which may also include joint venture partnership developments.  

The role will lead the progression of projects through the planning process to secure a satisfactory planning consent and drive contractor selection and appointment for handover to the Delivery team.  

Key accountabilities include:  

• Identifying and securing land for new business opportunities in line with the organisation’s regional development strategy and investment strategy, to include those sites of a larger and strategic/complex nature, S106 and package deals, land acquisition, partnership joint ventures, and public sector bids.  

• Establish and manage multidisciplinary project teams, including the appointment of consultants and solicitors, to ensure individual projects are secured and delivered to a high-quality standard.  

• Appraise opportunities using financial models to assess scheme performance of potential opportunities.  

What we need from you 

• Significant experience in the housing development sector, a track record of taking projects from inception to acquisition, appointing and managing consultant teams to secure and deliver new opportunities. 

• Awareness of the planning process and a track record of securing planning consents. 

• Financially literate, with the ability to input and interpret complex development appraisal models. 

• Experience of using learning from a range of roles within the housing, real estate development or related sector. 

• Comprehensive understanding of commercial practices relevant to delivering new developments. 

• Experience leading mixed teams of professions and using skills, with a track record of collective achievement. 

• Experience effectively managing a diverse portfolio of high value mixed use and mixed tenure development projects simultaneously.