Reporting to the Managing Director an opportunity exists for a driven and task focussed Development Manager to help deliver the company’s key-dates and critical business milestones.

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Reporting to the Managing Director an opportunity exists for a driven and task focussed Development Manager to help deliver the company’s key-dates and critical business milestones. The Development Manager will be responsible for two key areas: 1) day to day monitoring, co-ordination and reporting of progress on all planning and technical deadlines 2) for convening and managing all Pre-Planning and Pre-Site Start meetings in line with the company’s operating policies and procedures. The successful candidate will be tasked with ensuring all Key-dates are met and be responsible for Chairing development team meetings as required to ensure delivery.

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Managing and updating our Key-dates Schedule for weekly distribution to the senior management team
• Calling, co-ordinating and chairing Pre-Planning and Pre-Site Start meetings, as necessary, to ensure efficient and timeous development starts are made
• Liaising with all internal development departments to ensure time scales are met
• Day to day monitoring of progress, driving of critical information delivery and ownership of project Minute targets to ensure deadlines are delivered
• Ensuring all Group processes and procedures are adhered to throughout the development process
• Identifying and recording of all key risks associated with development projects
• Producing and managing a key risks contingency plan
• Ensuring development options/considerations are fully appraised before any binding decision is taken, by consulting fully with Land/Commercial/Sales in the process
• Ensuring project development appraisal is fully updated and re-run on a monthly basis
• Preparing a concise and accurate board paper on a bi-monthly basis
• Reporting on a weekly basis to the MD on all aspects of progress and timing issues associated with future site starts and budget goals
• Responsible for advising on achievable and realistic time scales for the delivery of planning consents, site starts and unit sales for all future development sites and updating budgets/forecasts

Knowledge & Capability:

• An experienced development or project manager, accustomed to working closely with a diverse team and able to do so harmoniously, whilst achieving key goals
• A knowledge of the residential planning and development process will be a distinct advantage
• An ability and willingness to work with the minimum of supervision to achieve very clearly defined KPIs
• Flexibility and Change Orientation - the ability to grasp problems and issues by breaking them down into their component parts, to solve problems, process information, assess risks, form judgements and develop solutions
• Achievement Drive - the motivation to strive towards achieving challenging goals, high standards and making continual improvements in the way tasks are accomplished
• Customer Orientation – a willingness to identify and exceed all customers reasonable expectations is essential because without this level of commitment, you will be unlikely to succeed in our customer orientated environment
• Strategic Orientation - the ability to think long-term, to develop better processes and seek constant improvement are desirable
• Working Together – the capability to build strong and positive working relationships and share common goals with colleagues to help achieve team and business success is essential
• Communicating and Influencing - the ability to seek out, clarify, share and communicate so that individuals and the team have all the information needed to work effectively
• Company Culture – our culture is one of collective responsibility, teamwork, honesty and transparency; consequently, any individual joining us must embrace these values at all times

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.

Please email Stacie Burnett, Resourcing Lead, Stacie.Burnett@landg.com for further information.