Senior Development Manager

Location:       Leeds or Stockton-on-Tees, with some home working where appropriate

Hours:           Core hours 8.30am – 5.00pm, 37.5 per annum, however with some flexibility

Salary:           Dependent upon experience, plus annual bonus alongside our flexible reward and benefits offer.

Role Overview

Working as a key member of a growing team, the Senior Development Manager will be responsible for leading the successful management and delivery of projects for Community Ventures and its clients.

The primary focus is to drive the delivery of projects from concept stage through to completion/financial close. The role includes a customer facing element to ensure client satisfaction and to support in the generation of new business opportunities.  

Key Responsibilities

• Reporting directly to the Associate Development Director, supporting all aspects of project delivery as required.

• Provide a first-class development management service to internal and external clients/partners, predominantly in the Public Sector.
• Assist in the cost and preparation of high-quality proposals in line with client/partner briefs.
• Produce well thought through tenders/bids for new business opportunities. This will involve engagement with the client, a thorough understanding of the client brief, engagement with the CV team, and compliance with CV proposal standards and processes.
• Ensure all appropriate contract documentation is in place for commissions.
• Promote the Community Ventures and wider Sewell Group brand and services to existing and new customers where appropriate.
• Attract new and ‘follow on’ business, deliver financial targets.
• Lead and proactively collaborate on a range of projects and activities in support of our development and investment business, and wider business objectives.
• Always develop and maintain excellent client/customer relationships and engagement.
• Deliver effective and efficient project management processes to ensure projects are delivered within agreed resource, timescales, and quality requirements.
• Undertake the preparation of development appraisals to assess potential opportunities and work with our in-house consultancy team to develop business cases in accordance with the Treasury Green Book 5 Case Model for CV and its clients.
• Ensure all developments advice is provided having regard to regulations, legislations, and appropriate guidance.
• Assist in the management of the CVM supply chain where these partners are engaged on development projects.
• Undertake management of development projects, on behalf of partners and for the Company’s own schemes.
• Work with the Consultancy Team to provide development options appraisals, feasibility studies and business cases.
• Assist the Director of Developments to provide strategic oversight of all development projects to Executive Management Team.
• Maintain inputs into the Synergist time management system in order to develop good business performance information.
• Ensure that all developments are high quality and delivered on time and to budget.
• Ensure that the maximum value is achieved for partners whilst at the same time ensuring that profits for the Company are maximised.
• Ensure that value maximisation across the Sewell Group of Companies is achieved.
• Assist the team in maintaining and developing the pipeline of developments.
• Support the development of junior team members and graduates.
• Deputise for the Associate Director of Developments, as required.

Skills and Attributes

As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential

-    Hold a formal qualification linked to the built environment.

-    Experience of working with the Public and Private Sector.

-    Significant and proven experience of managing complex developments.

-    Experience of working within a busy, technical professional services environment, both independently and within a team.

-    Politically astute with a positive professional reputation.

-    Experience of writing reports, business cases, feasibility studies on subjects related to the Company’s business.

-    Financial management skills

-    High level of attention to detail, as well as excellent verbal and written presentational skills.

-    A full driving licence, valid in the UK and own transport.

-    Excellent people & customer management skills, with the ability to build and maintain business relationships.

-    A positive and professional attitude, along with a high-quality approach to service delivery and a personal commitment to meeting deadlines.

-    Excellent levels of computer literacy in Microsoft Office products, specifically Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

-    Excellent communication and organisational skills.

-    A flexible attitude towards hours worked and interest in supporting the wider team during holiday and sickness periods.

Desirable

-    Experience of working within health, social care, education and commercial sectors.

-    Significant understanding of how clinical services within the NHS work on a day-to-day basis.

-    Membership of an appropriate professional body.

-    Knowledge of Construction Contracts e.g. NEC3, NEC4, JCT, etc.

-    Working knowledge of specialist guidance i.e. HTM’s, HBN’s, Building Bulletins, etc.

-    Business Case qualification (or the commitment to work towards this).

Community Ventures is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer an appropriate enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be required for the successful candidate of this role.

Benefits

-    Competitive, dependent on experience

-    Annual Bonus opportunity

-    25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days

-    Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates

-    Auto Enrolment pension

-    Staff discounts

-    High Street & Retail discount schemes

-    Bike 2 Work Scheme

-    Technology Scheme

-    Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

-    Plus more in our flexible reward & benefits offer