Development Manager 

Development Manager 

St Austell, Cornwall 

Competitive Salary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Gilbert & Goode, an award-winning new homes developer in the South West, for a full time, permanent, Development Manager working within the Pre-Construction team.

Part of the Ocean Housing Group, Gilbert & Goode has a reputation for creating great places to live and providing an excellent customer experience.  

You will be a key contributor to this by working with the Pre-Construction Director and Senior Development Manager to deliver G&G's ambitious mixed residential development programme to meet Business Plan timings and expectations.

You will have proven development management experience in either a Housebuilding or Registered Provider environment and will have the ability to lead on a varied and mixed portfolio of open market/s106 and affordable schemes as well as conversion of our ever-growing strategic land portfolio.  You will be responsible for the whole development process from land acquisition stage to obtaining financially viable and technically sound planning consents to delivery into the G&G business.

You will have a track record of leading and managing multi-discipline teams of consultants, fostering good relationships and ensuring development layouts are optimised to maximise value to the Group.  Most importantly, you will be able to demonstrate financial and commercial awareness around the impact of your decisions on the development stage appraisal.

Qualifications and Experience

It is essential you hold a HND or equivalent level 5 qualification in any discipline and it is desirable this is in planning, construction or development related discipline.  

Knowledge and experience of the development process within housebuilding or Registered Provider environment, from land acquisition through to sales and good working knowledge of central and local government planning and housing strategies and policies is essential.

You will have a proven track record of achieving successful planning consents for residential schemes within a housebuilding environment and have knowledge of legal matters around land acquisitions, options, contracts and s106 agreements.

You will be assertive and skilled at influencing and negotiating to achieve favourable outcomes and you will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills along with high levels of emotional intelligence and self-awareness.  

For further information regarding the role and responsibilities please refer to the job description and person specification.

Benefits

- 27 days holiday (plus Banks) 

- Car Allowance (10%)

- Professional Membership cost

- Company Sick Pay Scheme

- Workplace Pension including Death in Service Benefit

- Home Office Work Payment

- Medicash - Health Cash Plan (includes Dental and Optical)

- Cycle to Work Scheme

- Rewards and Recognition Scheme

- On site Parking

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Family Friendly Policies

Ocean offers a dynamic work environment offering hybrid working. We believe work is what you do, not where you go and therefore colleagues deliver their work where it best suits the need, whether that be in the office, home or around a local area or site using local facilities. Colleagues are agile and work or have meetings in any place to suit the need and task. There will be a need for employees to travel to St Austell and work from the head office for meetings, training and general day to day team requirements. 

Closing date: Sunday 16th March 2025 at Midnight

Interviews to be held: Monday 17th March 2025

1st stage interviews will be conducted face to face at our head off in St Austell, Cornwall

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.