Development Manager

Development Manager

Application closing date: 30/06/2025

Interviews will take place: Week commencing 07/07/2025

A bit about the role...

Working in a team with our Regional Director, Head of Disposals in the Homes England Central (Midlands) area and a Senior Development Manager as your line manager, the Development Manager will play a critical role in supporting Homes England’s land disposal programme. You will be joining our friendly and experienced team who are committed to making positive change in how key land disposal objectives in the Central (Midlands) Area are delivered.

Our Regional Director believes in delivering a first-class customer service, resolving issues informally wherever possible, taking an innovative and creative approach to conflict resolution. The Regional Director believes in working in a collaborative and flexible way and values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within the Central Disposals team.

This is a rare chance to shape the future of Homes England in a fast growing national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional delivery team, you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of issues and have the opportunity to help create a significant positive message around placemaking.

The role will support the design and delivery of sites in the Central region. These are exciting times and you will get involved in an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the Disposals offer.

A bit about you…

Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders in the Midlands, you will be confident "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

You will have private or public sector experience with complex planning and land disposals and preferably be RICS/MRTPI certified or working towards this. You will have experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams and have a result focused approach, while demonstrating the values we have at Homes England. 

You will possess working knowledge of the housing sector, government policy and current best industry practice and have the commercial and financial acumen and ability to contribute effectively in the management of large budgets and commercial decisions. 

You will be comfortable supporting the team with complex delivery and commercial issues, aiming to ensure delivery in accordance with the Annual Business Plan and any scheme-specific Business Cases. You will be proficient in commercial negotiations, land disposals, placemaking and team management.  

You will have excellent people skills helping your colleagues to flourish and will demonstrate that you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.  In addition, you are confident operating at local levels as well as senior levels both inside and outside Homes England.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable working with stakeholders, and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a high performing team. In addition, you will also be able to develop robust relationships with and influence external stakeholders in local government and the development sector to ensure Homes England is able to effectively deliver sites to market. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun, and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As a property professional, you will have excellent communication skills; both verbal and written. 

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. 

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

What we offer... 

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to hybrid working. We will 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 will pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you will 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.