Development and Delivery Manager - New Homes

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, c...