New Business Development Officer

New Business Development Officer

Hybrid working

Permanent, Full-Time

£46,000 + £5,800 Car Allowance

A full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for business purposes are essential, as the role involves travel to meetings and events in various locations, with occasional overnight stays.

Join the largest provider of elderly housing and care in the UK, operating across 1,700 locations with over 10,000 colleagues and a turnover of £550 million. Make a real impact in the role of New Business Development Officer, supporting the Land Managers and Director of New Business in securing sites and planning permissions through bid preparation, building the business case, and presenting to secure internal and external buy-in and support.

Responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Land Managers to secure sites and planning permissions including bid preparation, building the business case, managing the design team, delivering a planning consent and presenting to secure internal and external buy-in and support.
• Supporting the gateway approval and handover process internally.
• Ensuring files on SharePoint or other shared files are up to date and accessible to others.
• Liaising with external parties to promote our Development Strategy and appetite and requirements for new schemes to generate opportunities.
• Using appraisal, project management and reporting software that supports our pipeline growth and internal controls.
• Contributing to the internal and external social media profile for new developments to promote Anchor. Lead on developing promotional events promote Anchor.
• Fielding land enquiries to appropriate colleagues
• Support the wider marketing of our ambitions to external stakeholders including agents, developers, local authorities etc

About you

To be successful in this role you will have/be:

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan ahead.
• Willingness to work flexibly and travel regularly to meet business needs.
• Proactive, resourceful, and capable of working independently to meet deadlines.
• Resilient and able to work well under pressure.
• Effective time management to agreed deadlines.
• Ability to identify priorities, unresolved issues, and escalate matters to the senior development team when appropriate.
• Skilled in project planning and identifying interrelationships within complex projects.
• Ability to manage complex situations with sensitivity and objectivity.
• Constructive challenge at all levels for optimal customer outcomes.
• Proactively seek and consider advice from relevant teams within and outside the organization.
• Sound judgment, ability to provide advice, and be accountable for decisions within the appropriate authority level.
• Proactive and independent decision-making capability.
• Liaison with development and finance teams as needed.

Note: A full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for business purposes are prerequisites for this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.