Development & Commercial Manager (Legal & General Affordable Homes)
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United Kingdom - London -
Job Description
- Working collaboratively with the regional development team, you'll be a key player in ensuring the successful delivery of affordable led development sites.
- Providing development and construction input into site and development appraisals when bidding for new sites and leading procuring site investigations where necessary to support the land managers as part of the site acquisition feasibility stage.
- Taking the lead responsibility for delivery of development and construction post planning permission, including the discharging of conditions and the successful procuring of development delivery to ensure schemes are delivered within the approved development parameters for a site
- Peer reviewing development schemes prior to decisions from the investment decision making body and providing recommendations on schemes to support
- Be the lead person taking financial accountability for the schemes that are under the leadership of the post holder
- Overseeing the effective management of schemes to ensure they are delivered in accordance with the development and financial programmes and completed to a high quality of finish
- Liaising with the customer service team to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction are achieved from occupiers of the completed homes and providing expert input into the standard specifications for the homes to drive efficient construction and high quality housing ensuring that these standards are met by all counterparties
- Demonstrate awareness of current and future market conditions/trends and construction and development opportunities, including willingness to consider, evaluate and recommend direction for the company to follow to drive growth within the financial parameters of the business
Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, 10% car allowance, life assurance, family private medical insurance, 25 days' holiday, performance related bonuses. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
You'll have an entrepreneurial spirit and a commercial mindset, embracing change and comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environment Delivering residential development and construction experience – preferably in the affordable and market housing sectors and experience of developing and leading teams that deliver programmes of construction across multiple sites You'll have a deep locality specific knowledge of both the affordable housing and wider residential sectors and an expert understanding of affordable housing development and regulatory requirements You'll have the ability to build new business relationships to support the business’s objectives and work collaboratively across various teams Good academic background, with a numerical aptitude Preferably a professional qualification in a development or construction discipline