Senior Planning and Enabling Manager

Senior Planning and Enabling Manager

Application closing date: 22/06/2025

We expect to hold interviews in person week commencing 07/07/2025

A bit about the role...

Working in our Planning and Enabling team covering the south of England, the Senior Planning and Enabling Manager will play a critical role in the project management of residential led/mixed use development schemes. 

The role will require you to de-risk sites through a range of planning and enabling activities (including Local Plan promotion, masterplanning, obtaining necessary planning consents in a timely manner, negotiating S106 agreements and planning conditions, overseeing infrastructure delivery), while ensuring key objectives related to design, placemaking, sustainability and social value are achieved. 

You will be joining our large, friendly, experienced and highly skilled team, who are committed to making positive change and supporting how the Agency delivers its overarching Mission. There are a number of ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the Southern Development Team offering.

As a Senior Planning and Enabling Manager, you will be responsible for a portfolio of complex development projects. The projects you will be involved with are of varying scale and you will be required to take an innovative and creative approach to resolving complex planning, technical and legal issues. 

At times, you will also be required to support colleagues in the acquisition and disposal teams to assess and manage planning and development risk, support in the preparation of project delivery strategies, assessing tenders and Reserved Matters applications to ensure compliance with the planning framework and quality standards set for our schemes. 

This is a rare chance to shape the future of Homes England’s housing projects in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working positively with key stakeholders and partners, appointing specialist consultants, and working alongside a range of multidisciplinary professionals, you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of delivery challenges. You will have the opportunity to support the wider sector to tackle the housing and regeneration challenges faced by communities, to enable the delivery of places people are proud to call home.  

A bit about you…

You'll be comfortable supporting the Regional Director, Project Directors and Heads on a number of specific planning and deliver issues as well as working with the wide range of Agency teams such as investment, markets, places and partnerships, legal, technical services, risk and commercial) with complex planning and development issues, aiming to help shape, and then deliver, the Annual Business Plan. You will be proficient in project management, town planning and technical delivery matters. You’ll also have experience in collaborative working with a range of internal and external stakeholders. 

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing 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 as a Southern Development team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced development professional, you’ll understand how to manage large, multidisciplinary project teams and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way. You will ideally have a background in managing complex projects, with experience of identifying and overcoming development constraints with a good  awareness of key technical project risks (utilities, contamination, ground conditions, asbestos, ecology etc), and implementation of appropriate mitigation strategies. 

The applicant will also ideally have experience in the procurement and management of multi-disciplinary teams, with an ability to demonstrate an understanding of forthcoming policy changes and how to effectively manage these through the planning and delivery stages of projects. 

Who are we? 

Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market. 

What we offer... 

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

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 were all working from home during the pandemic and have since moved to a hybrid model, moving back into our office environments and utilising our space and time together in the most conducive 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 that stage.