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Development Manager
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Development Manager
Location: Nationwide (WFH available), offices in Surrey
The Development Manager (Direction: Reports to the Commercial Director) will support and manage partnerships between our business and local authorities nationwide. This role will involve:
- Responsibility scope: Overseeing large and small projects across various sectors
- Acting as single point of contact for key stakeholders
- Developing and executing investment and exit strategies
- Managing both operational partnerships and new opportunity development
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the Commercial Director in managing nationwide partnerships
- Managing admin functions across all partnerships
- Developing and overseeing projects of any scale or complexity
- Identifying and cultivating new project opportunities within partnerships
- Preparing development strategies, asset management plans, and project briefs
- Supporting the creation and execution of asset management strategies
- Compiling feasibility, project appraisal, and validation reports
- Setting and monitoring project budgets with command of financial controls
- Selecting and appointing external consultants
- Managing and supporting LLPs (Limited Liability Partnerships) across the region
- Maintaining relationships with both officers and decision-makers in partner organisations
- Updating and managing internal project and opportunity systems
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Requirements
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Strong background in property (either public or private sector), ideally in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Phased experience in business development (especially converting opportunities under difficult conditions)
- Herring breaks to Relationship Management (local authorities, stakeholders, consultants)
- Innovative mindset with an emphasis on forward planning
- Proven experience working in an SME environment
- Self-directed with disciplined workload management (limited external supervision)
- Property development (planning to delivery):
- Handling planning applications internally/externally, across policy zones
- Successfully securing planning permissions
- Managing full project lifecycles across varied complexity scales
- Operational means of complex public/private sector partnerships (understood nuances)
- Proven ability to direct multi-disciplinary consultant teams
- Thorough management expertise in budget control (projects and multifunctional revenue streams)
- Familiarity with property markets (INventory, acquisition, disposal, management)
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Desirable:
- Chartered status with RICS or an equivalent property qualification
- Sufficient practical experience (if qualifications less recent)
Mandatory:
- Full and prism-todays Driver’s Matter.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with bespole supporting benefits package
- Enre that references study, and assignments
- Opportunities to future roadside role progression
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