Uniper
Senior Development Manager International
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About the Role
This is a senior opportunity to shape high-value land and property development across Uniper's international portfolio. You will lead strategic development activity across the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Germany, with a particular focus on unlocking data centre opportunities, structuring complex property transactions, and working across commercial, legal, tax, finance, operational, and technical teams to create market-facing propositions with innovative power solutions that maximize long-term value.
About Uniper
At Uniper, we are proactively transforming the world of energy while ensuring the security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply, as well as proactively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!
Your Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver strategic land and property opportunities across Uniper’s international portfolio, with a focus on high-value uses including data centres and power-enabled development propositions.
- Create and execute development strategies for complex land and property interests, positioning sites for lease, disposal, acquisition, joint working, or other commercial structures.
- Lead complex property transactions, including lease, freehold, acquisition, disposal, and development arrangements, ensuring risks, liabilities, and value opportunities are clearly understood and managed.
- Work cross-functionally with commercial, legal, tax, finance, procurement, HSE, operational, and technical teams to align property strategies with wider business objectives.
- Identify market demand, property risks, and development opportunities, translating specialist insight into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Manage external professional advisers and suppliers, including instruction, performance management, governance, and value-for-money oversight.
- Provide due diligence, management information, and strategic property advice to support investment decisions, governance approvals, and long-term portfolio planning.
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Essential
- Demonstrable experience in land and property development, real estate strategy, or property portfolio delivery, ideally involving complex industrial, infrastructure, or energy-related sites.
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to structure, negotiate, and deliver complex property transactions across a broad range of land and property interests.
- Experience developing strategic opportunities from market insight through to practical delivery, including risk assessment, due diligence, and stakeholder recommendations.
- Ability to work effectively across different jurisdictions, quickly understanding relevant legal, regulatory, and market frameworks and adapting strategies accordingly.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex property matters to non-specialist audiences.
- Experience managing external advisers, consultants, and suppliers to deliver specialist property, legal, commercial, or technical input.
- Relevant professional property qualification or equivalent experience, supported by sound business management knowledge.
Desirable
- Experience of data centre, power, utilities, energy transition, or large-scale infrastructure development projects.
- Knowledge of industrial property markets, power-enabled development propositions, or land value optimization linked to energy assets.
- Experience working internationally or across multiple European jurisdictions.
Your Qualities
At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension, and health-related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, while also supporting with home office equipment.
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Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Personal development and learning opportunities
- Enhanced company pension – With up to 12% company contributions
- 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Electric vehicle charging at our sites
- In-house Occupational Health Services
- Company-funded Private Medical Insurance including a free GP service
- Performance-related benefits
- Access to a range of flexible benefits such as Share Incentive Plan, Dental, Critical Illness, and Life Insurance, Cycle2Work, or buy and sell extra holiday
- Future career opportunities (UK & International) with a strong focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Your contact:
Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager:
Please note, any CVs sent via email will not be taken into consideration. All CVs must be submitted via the online application process only.
Job Information
- Contract type: Unlimited
- Working Hours: Full Time
- Start Date: ASAP
- Deadline: 30/10/2026
- Salary: Competitive
As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity, or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.
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