Delivery Project Manager

Delivery Project Manager
Permanent
Full Time (37.5 hpw)
Starting salary c£33,500 to £40,150 per annum
Primary office base will be Maryport

Seeing new communities take shape. Thats when it hits home.
 
We have a brilliant opportunity for a Delivery Project Manager (known internally at Home Group as Delivery Manager) to join our award winning Development team.  Did you know were winners of the Housing Awards Development Programme of the Year 2018 and shortlisted for 2019!
 
Youll be managing our delivery programme for the North West region, managing projects from planning submission through to practical completion.  We have an ambitious target to deliver 10,000 homes and youll play a key role in supporting us to achieve this.  Youll also work closely and collaboratively with colleagues across Development, internal Finance and Legal teams, external partners and suppliers.
 
Youll be working across a number of sites across Cumbria including Carlisle, Penrith, Maryport and Whitehaven.  There may also be some require some work in North Lancashire.  You'll be delivering a variety of tenures and innovative design solutions, within our framework of contractors and consultants.  With a construction or house building background, youll have experience of managing projects client-side and managing a team of external consultants to deliver projects on our behalf. An understanding of construction forms of contract would be a real advantage.

You'll report to Elsa, our Head of Development and Delivery who is passionate about delivering the highest quality of housing for our customers.  If this is your passion too, you'll really fit in here.
 
Its a really exciting time to join Home Group.  We are currently undergoing a significant period of growth and change that will enable us to build more homes, independence and aspirations the vision that underpins our five-year strategy. Our ambition to build 10,000 new homes, be market leaders in New Models of Care and significantly increase our digital capability is in the hands of our brilliant people.
 
About you
Youll have experience in the delivery of high quality new homes on-site, delivering multi-site, complex residential-led development projects successfully.  With an in-depth understanding of the commercial aspects relating to housing development, youll have a good knowledge of the planning system and have previous experience in financial modelling.  If you have a proven background in planning, regeneration and development activity, including the procurement of contracting partners then this would be the icing on the cake (or should we say the sold sign on the door!).  Youll ideally be qualified or working towards a relevant professional qualification too.
 
Youll need to have a full current driving licence, access to a car along with business insurance cover so you can travel around our different sites. We'll pay you for your mileage.
 
About us
We are Home Group, one of the UKs largest developers of new homes and providers of houses for affordable rent.  We also provide long term integrated housing, health and social care housing.  We are proud of the difference that we have made over the last 80 years and we continue to work hard to support 120,000 customers in 55,000 homes across the UK.  With a turnover of £350m and more than 3000 colleagues, you will be joining a robust, dynamic and inclusive organisation with a strong social mission at its heart.
 
Were also a strategic partner of Homes England, working together to disrupt the way we do things across UK housing to build the affordable homes our country needs. 
 
Oh, did we mention that we rank No. 7 in the UKs Best Large Places to work and are winners of Development Programme of the Year 2018 at the Housing Awards and Best House at the What House Awards 2018?
 
Working flexibly
Its the teams unwritten rule that you attend the important appointments in life, be it your childs school play, your partners graduation, or to get your new fridge delivered. You can elect to fit these around your working day taking advantage of our agile ways of working. Our focus is on getting the job done, not your working hours!
 
The job for you?
Great, all you need to do now is upload your CV - simple as that!  If youre not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the apply now button to access lots of useful stuff! Youll be able to download our Delivery Manager Job description and find out more about working in our development team.  We also got these brilliant videos that show you what its like to work here, and well know you want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package.

 
Youre unique!
Home Group play a big part in tackling prejudice and discrimination.  We want you to be yourself here and value everything that makes you unique. So whatever your race, sexuality, disability, religion, gender or even non-gender, we recognise and celebrate your differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!