Senior Development Manager

The Vacancy

Wates Group have a new opportunity for a Senior Development Manager to join our Residential business unit covering Wales, Bristol and South West.

Wates Residential is a developer contractor, we invest, develop, build, and sell quality affordable homes through contracting and partnerships with Local Authorities, Housing Associations, and public bodies such as Homes England.

The role of Senior Development Manager will have a crucial role in managing both the financial and commercial aspects of a project or portfolio, acting as a key contributor to the relationship with joint venture partners, while also collaborating with teams in operations, finance, sales, and commercial.

As a Senior Development Manager, you will:

• Be responsible for a single project with multiple phasing or a selection of single projects in a portfolio.
• Grow the Wales region into a successful developer contractor partner and contribute to the learnings and changes that the Regional Development Director and Regional Managing Director may wish to implement accordingly. Actively maintain and develop a positive relationship with the joint venture partner at peer level and be a senior contributor to the relationship on the project or portfolio.
• Collaborate with peer group in Operations, Finance, Design, Sales, Commercial and other functions to form, implement and deliver the Project Business plan.
• Work collaboratively with public sector stakeholders and engage local communities.
• Ensure that all required Wates development gateway governance is in place and is followed for the project or portfolio. Be responsible that external project governance (e.g., JV governance) is adhered to and followed.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme

• Flexible working

• Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade)

• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)

• Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…

• One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)

• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.