Development & Delivery Manager (New Homes)

Permanent

Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Hybrid working, from our office in central Newcastle upon Tyne, across our North-East development sites and from home

Salary £40, 000 - £55, 000 per annum (negotiable on experience) plus great benefits including health cash plan

Home a place where you belong

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as Development and Delivery Manager, supporting us to build the right homes, in the right places for our customers. You’ll be delivering our new-homes schemes of mixed tenure across the North-East region on time and to budget, ensuring that an excellent offer for our customers and communities always lies at the heart of delivery.

Working across both development and delivery, this is a unique opportunity to manage our projects from start to finish and to continue to develop your skills to Senior Manager as you grow with us.

You'll be reporting to Laura Hattrick, our Senior Development & Delivery Manager in the North East, within our friendly Development & Delivery North East Team.

Typical day as a Development and Delivery Manager

• Work across project stages, from identifying sites and project appraisals to securing planning permission, completion of legals, managing on-site projects, site handovers to the end of the Defects Liability period.
• Carefully manage budgets and expenditure, keeping projects on track and meeting performance targets while delivering real value.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with developers and contractors, ensuring our projects are managed with rigour and diligence to meet the highest standards.
• Oversee compliance and design-led quality across all developments, keeping our customers’ needs at the heart of every decision.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for the top 10 Great Places to Work in the UK. You’ll work alongside our award-winning team who are winners of the 2018 UK housing awards Development Programme of the year and achieved silver for best house at the What House Awards 2018 (bronze in 2017).

You bring

• Proven project management experience, delivering multi-site residential led development sites to design standards.
• Experience in the commercial aspects of housing development, including planning, contractor procurement, contractor management through to sales.
• Strong project management skills, with a track record of working with contractors to deliver design-driven, compliant, and efficient schemes. You have delivered complex, mixed-tenure new home projects to time and budget.
• Great knowledge and experience in the planning system and laws to implement compliant and approved schemes.
• An eye for detail, be a great influencer, organiser and driver to handle multiple priorities across different schemes. You work seamlessly with partners, customers, and colleagues alike.

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!

Job details

• Working Monday to Friday, you’ll shape your own diary around work and your own commitments.
• This is a hybrid role, so you’ll spend two days in our office at our office in Newcastle upon Tyne, the others across our development sites and from home.
• You must be able to use technology for delivering projects and managing budgets, online learning and collaborating with colleagues.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (includes bank hols and a “me day” to use whenever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary.
• Explore our full range of benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Development and Delivery Manager Job Description and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk