Assistant Development Manager

Description

• Assist in building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, consultants, funders and other stakeholders to deliver projects to site and successful outcomes for our customers.
• Assisting the senior team to prepare for, manage and record key client meetings
• Collaborate with and support other regional development managers to grow their pipeline. Including supporting on business development, bids, tenders, attending events etc.
• Identify and mitigate risks/opportunities and develop contingency plans to eliminate risk and optimise returns to ensure that projects evolve to meet and better the financial and programme required.
• Provide support to our Regional Heads of Land and Development in helping move development projects from feasibility to ‘construction ready’. This would include undertaking research, assisting in the writing of feasibility studies. Commissioning and managing the work of sub-consultants.
• Create and maintain development appraisals on schemes, reporting internally and externally as required.
• Support relevant consultant relationships on projects.
• Work closely with regional preconstruction teams to establish deliverable solutions which achieve relevant margin requirements.
• Assist in representing Willmott Dixon development solutions publicly and encourage/develop new relationships to grow the team and our reputation.
• Assist in bidding and winning future work through development of proposals and commercial structures.

Requirements

• Developer or construction side project management experience. This should include the development and management of project programmes, reporting progress against these, instructing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver against programme objectives, and the development and maintenance of project management tools (e.g. risk register, issues log, budget and resourcing plans).
• Tenacity and persistence to resolve challenging issues.
• Knowledge of public partnering contractual arrangements (development agreements, partnership agreements, JV’s etc).
• Knowledge of funding routes (either private funding or public sector grant funding).
• Mixed use development experience (town centre, retail, leisure, community, office and residential).
• High levels of personal energy and comfortable operating in a complex, fast paced environment with the ability to work both independently and as part of a passionate dynamic team.
• Experience of working with or for Local Authorities.
• Ability to challenge the status quo but knowing how to manage change to minimise disruption.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including report writing, presenting and pitching ideas. IT proficient including MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Teams and appraisal software.
• Commercial acumen in developing and reporting on commercial appraisals and financial modelling.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance