Development Manager

. Apple (UK) Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple (UK) Limited in the Places RE&D group seeks a Development Manager to lead the delivery of New Store Openings, refreshes, and critical MEP replacement projects across the EMEIA region from concept to close.

You will oversee budgeting, scheduling, and coordination with internal teams and external partners, ensuring high-quality facilities, timely builds, and adherence to safety and sustainability standards in retail, commercial, and data center projects.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering outstanding retail stores or workplaces internationally.
• Experience in large developments such as retail store expansions, campuses, and other hyper scale construction.
• Expertise in planning, scheduling, budgeting, resourcing, and executing of all technical services required to maintain and improve a large real estate portfolio.
• Proven ability to collaborate with internal and external partners to meet deadlines and project schedule.
• Ability to balance the trade-offs between operational risk and investment, constantly seeking the highest quality and design at the best value.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and supervisory skills, including experience working with all levels of an organization and ability to handle customer service issues involving employees in a professional and positive manner.
• Ability to develop cost estimates, cash flows, schedules, and analyze Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Whole Life Cycle costs.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with facility operation teams, utility companies, government agencies, architectural & design firms, and general contracting firms.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of New Store Openings, refreshes, critical MEP replacement projects, and programs from concept to close out.
• Lead programs across the EMEIA region with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Provide strong leadership, governance, and stakeholder coordination to ensure on-time, on-budget project delivery.

Skills

Retail project delivery

MEP coordination

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Construction management

International experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Civil, Architectural and Construction Management

Job description

In Places RE&D, we don't sit back and let things happen, we make things happen, and we do this in service to all Apple employees and customers. Our team is a diverse and nimble group that manages Apple's corporate and retail workplaces and workplace services. We develop and manage Apple's global real estate portfolio, lead all related capital construction projects, provide outstanding facilities and site services, develop and lead sustainability initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of all Apple facilities, including commute and renewable energy programs, and do everything we can to ensure the health and safety of all Apple personnel, facilities, and customers in our facilities around the world.

Description

The EMEIA Development team is responsible for the execution of the retail development strategy across the region. The Development Manager is responsible for the delivery of New Store Openings, refreshes, critical MEP replacement projects, and programs from concept to close out.

Minimum Qualifications

• Construction/project management experience with a demonstrated focus in delivering outstanding retail stores or workplaces internationally.
• Experience in large developments such as retail store expansions, campuses, and other hyper scale construction.
• Expertise in the planning, scheduling, budgeting, resourcing, and executing of all technical services required to maintain and improve a large real estate portfolio. This includes mechanical, electrical, plumbing, controls, fire-alarm, lighting, furniture, etc.
• Proven ability to collaborate with internal and external partners to meet deadlines and project schedule.
• Ability to balance the trade-offs between operational risk and investment, constantly seeking the highest quality and design at the best value.
• Excellent leadership, communication (keynote), and supervisory skills, including experience working with all levels of an organization and ability to handle customer service issues involving employees in a professional and positive manner.
• Ability to develop cost estimates, cash flows, schedules, and analyze Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Whole Life Cycle costs.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with facility operation teams, utility companies, government agencies, architectural & design firms, and general contracting firms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Civil, Architectural and Construction Management preferred.
• Strong background in data center/commercial/industrial construction to include mechanical, electrical, process piping, plumbing building systems, tenant improvement with bespoke architectural finishes, site work and ground up construction.
• Very proactive, responsive, and upbeat with strong organizational skills; takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Demonstrated success in running multiple projects, priorities, and people concurrently in a fast-paced, high growth, and results driven environment.