Senior Partnership & Business Development Manager

Senior Partnership & Business Development Manager

Closing Date: 28/02/2025

Interviews will take place week commencing 17/03/2025

We are looking for talented people with housing and regeneration experience to join our professional, dynamic and experienced team in the North led by our Regional Director, Duncan Inglis. You will be joining a growing team who are driving forward the Homes England housing and regeneration mission.

Based in the Homes England Newcastle office you will be supported by our growing team of multi-disciplinary professionals led by our Assistant Director, Marie Kiddell. We act as the front door to Homes England for our partners, working with Combined Authorities, Local Authorities and private sector partners to build pipelines of investment ready housing growth and regeneration projects. 

This is a rare chance to shape the future delivery of often complex and interesting sites in the North of England in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. 

MPP is a multidisciplinary team with a remit to identify, lead on, and provide support to, large-scale, complex and innovative projects that require multiple interventions, cross-government and cross discipline working. The team will work closely with Homes England colleagues and other Government Departments to provide a bridge between policy, strategy and delivery. By forming a clear understanding of the strategic context and priorities surrounding a particular project at the pre - development stage and by drawing on expertise and relationships, the team will develop robust, large-scale housing strategies that will drive market change and unlock delivery.

A bit about the role...

Working in the Northern Markets. Partners and Places (MPP) team you will play a critical role in the future delivery of a portfolio of large-scale, complex regeneration projects. Based in our Newcastle or Leeds office you will have the chance to be involved in, and shape, projects that achieve transformative Urban Regeneration and housing growth throughout the North of England such as Forth Yards in Newcastle.

You’ll act as part of the ‘front door’ to Homes England for our partners, working with Combined Authorities, Local Authorities and private sector partners to build pipelines of investment ready housing growth and regeneration projects. In certain areas, such as the North East you’ll be part of our Strategic Place Partnerships with those places, where we have focussed working together around key priorities for those places. 

This role is dependant on engagement with external partners, therefore, you will need to have the ability to travel within the region as and when is required for the role.

A bit about you…

You will lead a number of your own projects and use your technical and commercial expertise to provide strategic and expert advice in the field across a range of property related issues including infrastructure and development, delivery strategies, land assembly, delivery models and funding mechanisms. Familiarity with the business case process and experience in engaging with government departments on major strategic projects will also be valued.

The role requires you to work on projects across the north of England within multi-functional teams and an ability to work collaboratively with others is key to success in this role. 

Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders, you will be used to ‘spinning several plates’ at once and work at pace through a range of different tasks and priorities to deliver on competing responsibilities whilst looking for ways to improve and innovate.

You’ll will be educated to a degree level, desirably with a recognised professional qualification, for example RTPI/RICS and/or have project management experience or experience in engineering, urban regeneration or in finance and have the skills and ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously. You will possess expert real estate, commercial and development knowledge.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will need to be resilient and comfortable managing multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

You will have excellent communication skills with experience of presenting and delivering messages in a clear, concise, and confident manner which engages audiences and achieves the desired outcomes and you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

MPP is a multidisciplinary team with a remit to identify, lead on, and provide support to, large-scale, complex and innovative projects that require multiple interventions, cross-government and cross¬ discipline working. The team will work closely with Homes England colleagues and other Government Departments to provide a bridge between policy, strategy and delivery. By forming a clear understanding of the strategic context and priorities surrounding a particular project at the pre development stage; and by drawing on expertise and relationships, the team will develop robust, large-scale housing strategies that will drive market change and unlock delivery.

Who are we? 

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer... 

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you. 

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. 

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. 

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. 

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way. 

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. 

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. 

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.