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Development & Commercial Manager (Legal & General Affordable Homes)

Employer
Legal & General Affordable Homes
Location
London/Northern Home Counties and South West
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
13 Dec 2020

Job Details

Are you passionate about the creation of sustainable housing?

Legal & General Affordable Homes (LGAH) is currently looking for two Development & Commercial Managers - One to manage schemes in London and Northern Home Counties and another for the South West. 

Working with the Land Managers, Land and Planning Managers and Head of Delivery, you'll take the lead on all aspects of the development delivery of the site to successful completion, handover and snagging. You'll also lead the liaison with Homes England and other grant funding bodies to secure grant into schemes.

What you'll be doing:

  • Working collaboratively with the regional development team, you'll be a key player in ensuring the successful delivery of affordable led development sites.
  • Providing development and construction input into site and development appraisals when bidding for new sites and leading procuring site investigations where necessary to support the land managers as part of the site acquisition feasibility stage.
  • Taking the lead responsibility for delivery of development and construction post planning permission, including the discharging of conditions and the successful procuring of development delivery to ensure schemes are delivered within the approved development parameters for a site
  • Peer reviewing development schemes prior to decisions from the investment decision making body and providing recommendations on schemes to support
  • Be the lead person taking financial accountability for the schemes that are under the leadership of the post holder
  • Overseeing the effective management of schemes to ensure they are delivered in accordance with the development and financial programmes and completed to a high quality of finish
  • Liaising with the customer service team to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction are achieved from occupiers of the completed homes and providing expert input into the standard specifications for the homes to drive efficient construction and high quality housing ensuring that these standards are met by all counterparties
  • Demonstrate awareness of current and future market conditions/trends and construction and development opportunities, including willingness to consider, evaluate and recommend direction for the company to follow to drive growth within the financial parameters of the business

What we're looking for:

  • You'll have an entrepreneurial spirit and a commercial mindset, embracing change and comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environment
  • Delivering residential development and construction – preferably in the affordable and market housing sectors and experience of developing and leading teams that deliver programmes of construction across multiple sites
  • You'll have a deep locality specific knowledge of both the affordable housing and wider residential sectors and an expert understanding of affordable housing development and regulatory requirements
  • You'll have the ability to build new business relationships to support the business’s objectives and work collaboratively across various teams 
  • Good academic background, with a numerical aptitude
  • Preferably a professional qualification in a development or construction discipline

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.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

Company

Legal & General Affordable Homes

Improving the lives of our customers and building a better society for the long term.

The need for good quality housing that people can afford is fundamental to supporting a flourishing society.  We seek to increase the supply of affordable housing by investing long-term institutional capital into the affordable housing sector to build more affordable flats and houses and provide safe and comfortable homes for those who need them most.

Legal & General Affordable Homes’ ambition is to become the leading private developer of affordable homes in the UK.  We will provide high quality housing management alongside a responsive and effective customer service experience. 

We will deliver our ambition by collaborating with local authorities, housing associations and developers across the country.  Our approach is to develop solutions and approaches to address the challenges of current and future society; by being forward thinking we will deliver competitive, customer-focussed solutions.

We deliver at scale, and with high quality, so our impact is material in addressing the nation’s affordable housing shortage.

We are looking for talented and ambitious individuals that can work in a fast-moving environment to build a business which delivers socially-important outcomes and becomes a market-leader.

To deliver this aim, we will are looking for ambitious individuals that want to be part of teams that collaborate, work with purpose and deliver a new and ambitious business which improves the lives of the customers we serve.

As a growing business there will be change; systems, processes and procedures will be being developed as the business grows, and this will require adaptable and responsible teams that thrive in this environment.

If you think you have these skills and capabilities, and you think you can meet this challenge, then we’d like to hear from you.

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