Land and Planning Development Manager

Land and Planning Development Manager

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Starting salary circa £33,500 to £45,000 pa (depending on experience) rising up to £60,000 pa through achievement to Senior Development Manager via our career progression pathways

Leeds City Centre

Building the right homes in the right places.  Thats when it hits home.

We have an exciting opportunity for a brilliant Development Manager to join us in identifying, winning and progressing new land and development opportunities for the Yorkshire region.  You'll be supporting us in our strategic priority to build the right homes in the right places for our customers.  Youll be joining our award winning team who are recent winners of the Most Innovative Building Project for our Gateshead Innovation Village at the BI Awards 2019, Development Programme of the Year 2018 and finalists 2019 at the Inside Housing Awards. 

Youll be sourcing land, development and partnering opportunities with a focus on identifying mixed tenure opportunities to deliver new affordable and private sale homes across the Yorkshire region.  You'll lead exciting projects, from identification through concept design, planning submission and the completion of legal agreements, ensuring an effective handover of a deliverable scheme to our Delivery colleagues.  

Youll be working for Amber, our Head of Development - North East & Yorkshire who is passionate about the combined strength of collaborative working, creating well designed, successful mixed tenure residential developments which generate value and benefit local communities.  Amber recently celebrated her 17th work anniversary with us.

Want to know more?

If youre not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! You can find out more about the role in our Development Manager Job description and find our more about working in our development team at www.homegroup.org.uk/devteam.  We know youll also want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!

A bit about you

We are looking for a land, planning or development manager who has a passion and drive to win new business, well networked and connected with a range of private and public sector partners.  Youll ideally have a Chartered RICS qualification or other professional qualification in planning, urban design, surveying, building, or a related field.  Youll really impress us with your knowledge of the commercial aspects and development pressures relating to housing developments in the region, along with the key planning challenges for the housing sector.  

Youll have a track record with another housebuilder, developer, consultancy or housing association and of working with local authorities as well as the statutory planning system to deliver projects.  We need you to travel to sites so you need to be able to drive with access to a vehicle insured for business purposes.

A bit about us

We recognise the importance of professional learning, development and CPD. There is a clearly defined career progression route through our careers pathways to the Senior Development Manager role.

Oh, did we mention that we're number 7 in the UKs Best Large Places to work (super large category), Silver for Best House in the What House Awards 2018, winners of Inside Housings Development Programme of the Year 2018 (finalist in 2019) and Most Innovative Building Project winner at the BI Awards 2019.

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 and your covering letter (dont forget to attach this, as we really want to know more about why this role is for you!).   If you would prefer to have a chat about the role first, then contact us on our Home Group Facebook Careers page.

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