Role overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Development Manager to join our team within Vistry North West Midlands, at our Wolverhampton office. As our Senior Development Manager, you will support the business unit in its delivery of its annual budget requirement and associated performance targets. You will lead the technical delivery for each allocated project, through the entire Vistry Life of Site cycle, working within all relevant policies and procedures. You will also provide advice and support to Development and Assistant Development Managers.

• Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
  • Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
  • Agile working possible (dependent on role)
  • Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Private Healthcare
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
  • Share incentive schemes
  • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
• In return, what we would like from you...
  • Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
  • Construction/design related HNC/HND/Degree
  • Relevant CSCS card
  • Residential development experience
  • Ability to delivering mixed tenure regeneration projects on brownfield sites
  • Management of design Consultants
  • Building and maintaining internal and external relationships
  • Contract & commercial awareness
  • Professional aptitude with the ability to make decisions under pressure
  • Good time management with ability to multitask
  • Strives for continuous improvement for the benefit of the company
  • Good technical knowledge and skills
  • Experience in the social/affordable housing and healthcare sectors

  Desirable...

  • Member of Professional Body CIOB/RIBA/RICS
• More about the Senior Development Manager role...
  • To implement and comply with Vistry Partnerships SHE policy and procedures, all legal requirements, and best practice within the business unit and implement the company’s policies, procedures and values.
  • Comply with and all current Vistry Life of Site procedures.
  • To allocate resources within delegated authorities.
  • To support the achievement of the annual financial budget (operating profit) for the business unit.
  • To manage the process of design solutions.
  • To lead, manage and motivate any internal staff and external consultants on projects to establish their full commercial contribution to the organisation.
  • To support the winning of contracts while minimising risk and maximising gross profit in particular in the management of the design process.
  • To undertake and complete technical reports for new land and business opportunities, where required.
  • Manage and collate information required for each project, e.g. Planning, Building Control, BREEAM, CODE Building for life, HQI, NHBC and SBD information / requirements.
  • To select, propose & appoint external design consultants.
  • To monitor and control professional fees and budget on appointed projects, ensuring the Commercial team are aware of any spend and update cost to complete.
  • To manage the process of designing solutions that meet business commercial needs.
  • To support the commercial relationships with customers, consultants, contractors and subcontractors during the project life cycle.
  • To assess, control and mitigate risks and implement Vistry Partnerships risk policy.
  • To support the project teams to fulfil contracts safely, on time, and to the required quality while minimising costs.  In particular:
    • to ensure consultant appointment and warranty documents are in place.
    • to ensure the solution design is in line with the budget, ER’s and design programme, and that consultants are held to account.
    • to conduct design reviews (compliance/buildability etc).
    • to support value engineering.
    • to manage the detailed design requirements with consultants and subcontractors.
    • convene design team meetings and ensure action points/discussions are accurately recorded and closed out.
    • manage the design approval process.
    • manage the adoption process, including roads, sewers and open spaces.
  • To propose, investigate, review and make recommendations of innovative design solutions.
  • To lead project pre-development and progress meetings, ensuring adequate record keeping etc.
  • To attend regular site visits for appointed projects along with the project team to monitor progress and swiftly and efficiently resolve any design related issues.
  • Registration with warranty providers.
  • Managing the collation of the project Health & Safety File/Operating & Maintenance Manuals/Environmental & Sustainability Management.
  • Support business unit and Vistry Partnerships Corporate responsibility strategies.
  • Carry out any reasonable tasks, appropriate to the level of a SDM, as requested by senior management team members.

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...

We’re Vistry Group, the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they’re needed most.

You’re probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there’s nowhere better to build your career. We’re proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.

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