Head of Development and Delivery - New Homes

Job Description - Head of Development and Delivery - New Homes (25529)

Job Title: Head of Development and Delivery - New Homes

Location: Hybrid working from home, our office in Newcastle Upon Tyne with regular travel to our Leeds office and sites across the regional portfolio.

Employment Type: Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Salary: Circa £90,000 per annum, plus car allowance of £5055 per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

We're looking for an incredible leader who can supercharge performance leading our North-East and Yorkshire regional development programme, supporting us to deliver the right homes in the right places for our customers.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make your mark, delivering our new homes mixed tenure programme from inception through to completion, ensuring that an excellent offer for our customers and communities always lies at the heart of delivery.

Key priorities as Head of Development and Delivery:

• As a key member of our business leadership team, ensuring a commercially viable development programme, carefully managing income and expenditure, identifying new opportunities and progressing schemes which include joint ventures with developers and contractors.
• Leading our development programme from strategy to site identification, sale/rent through to aftercare, working collaboratively with your team to ensure successful delivery.
• Ensuring our new homes programme is innovative, market leading, sustainable and co-designed with customers, driving growth and surplus. You'll support us in the move towards greater consolidation and quality towards Net Zero.
• Providing strong, clear and expert leadership promoting a culture of performance, transparency and excellence - casting a positive shadow. You'll inspire, influence and lead a high performing team, driving service excellence.

You bring:

• Significant experience within the housing sector. A degree and relevant professional qualification such as CIOH, RICS, CIOB would also be advantageous.
• Strong experience in managing the end-to-end development process from opportunity identification, option analysis, master planning, design, delivery, sales and aftercare.
• Credibility in the sector, with proven skills to lead change, drive continuous improvement and innovations.
• Strong skills in developing business plans, influencing strategy and managing P&L.
• Excellent people manager with strong leadership skills and the ability to engage, influence, transform and make it a great place to work for your team.

Our team:

Reporting to Kitson, our Director of Development, you'll be part of our business leadership team. You'll meet with them regularly to drive strategy and also ensure we have a collaborative and collegiate approach in leading our teams.

Job details:

• Full time, 37.5 hpw, Monday to Friday.
• Hybrid working; from home, our office in Newcastle or Leeds and across our regional development sites. National travel will also be required on occasion to meet with our Development colleagues based in London.
• A full current driving licence and access to a vehicle insured for work. You will be provided with a car allowance as part of your remuneration package.

A place where you belong:

We're especially keen to encourage your application if you are from an ethnic minority background, female, identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (LGBTQ+), or if you are registered or consider yourself disabled. This is because these groups are currently underrepresented amongst our colleagues.

What's in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank holidays and a me day to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We'll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We're a Great Place to Work, 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing and 1st best workplaces for women!
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. Explore our full range of benefits on our website.

Finally, do let us know if there's anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at