Development and Delivery Manager

Home Group Limited; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing organization is seeking a Development and Delivery Manager to manage new homes schemes across the North-East and Yorkshire. This role involves overseeing projects from start to finish, ensuring timelines and budgets are met, and building relationships with contractors. Ideal candidates will have substantial project management experience in residential development. The position allows for hybrid working, spending two days in the office and the rest on site and from home, offering an attractive package with health benefits and 34 days of leave.

Benefits

34 days leave plus bank holidays

Health cash plan

High street discounts

Support for career growth

Wellbeing tools and support

Qualifications

• Experience delivering multi-site residential development projects.
• Strong commercial understanding of housing development processes.
• Experienced in managing budgets and project timelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects from identification to handover and defects liability.
• Maintain budgets and ensure projects meet performance targets.
• Build relationships with developers and contractors.

Skills

Project management

Contractor management

Planning system knowledge

Attention to detail

Influencing skills

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as Development and Delivery Manager, supporting us to build the right homes, in the right places for our customers. You'll be delivering our new‑homes schemes of mixed tenure across the North‑East and Yorkshire region on time and to budget, ensuring that an excellent offer for our customers and communities always lies at the heart of delivery.

Working across both development and delivery, this is a unique opportunity to manage our projects from start to finish and to continue to develop your skills to Senior Manager as you grow with us.

What you'll do

• Work across project stages, from identifying sites and project appraisals to securing planning permission, completion of legals, site handovers to the end of the Defects Liability period.
• Carefully manage budgets and expenditure, keeping projects on track and meeting performance targets while delivering real value.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with developers and contractors, ensuring our projects are managed with rigour and diligence to meet the highest standards.
• Oversee compliance and design‑led quality across all developments, keeping our customers' needs at the heart of every decision.

Why join us

This is more than a job, it's a place where you feel valued. You get great training, support from friendly colleagues and a chance to make a real difference every day. Be part of one of the UK's top 10 Great Places to Work!
We do our best work when we're ourselves. That's why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!

You have

• Proven project management experience, delivering multi‑site residential led development sites to design standards.
• Experience in the commercial aspects of housing development, including planning, contractor procurement, contractor management through to sales.
• Strong project management skills, with a track record of working with contractors to deliver design‑driven, compliant, and efficient schemes. You have delivered complex, mixed‑tenure new home projects to time and budget.
• Great knowledge and experience in the planning system and laws to implement compliant and approved schemes.
• An eye for detail, be a great influencer, organiser and driver to handle multiple priorities across different schemes. You work seamlessly with partners, customers, and colleagues alike.
• You'll have a full current driving licence as you will travel around our development sites to support our customers and colleagues.

The practical bits

• Working Monday to Friday, you'll shape your own diary around work and your own commitments.
• This is a hybrid role, so you'll spend two days in our office at either Newcastle upon Tyne or Leeds and the others across our development sites and from home.
• You must be able to use technology for delivering projects and managing budgets, online learning and collaborating with colleagues.

What's in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a "me day" to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, 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 Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matter to us, that's why we're the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.