Development Director in Birmingham

About Lendlease

Lendlease is Australia’s leading real estate business with international operations. Our core expertise is in investment management, development, and construction. For more than 60 years, we have created thriving places around the globe. We employ our decades-long experience, bold thinking and expertise to shape cities all over the world, delivering innovative, sustainable places and infrastructure for governments, businesses and communities. Our development business is focused on the creation of mixed-use precincts that comprise apartments, workplaces and associated leisure and entertainment amenity.

About the Role

In the UK, Lendlease recently announced a joint venture partnership with The Crown Estate across six major urban regeneration projects in London and Birmingham. The £24 billion GDV pipeline offers opportunities to unlock more than 100,000 jobs, 26,000 homes and 10 million square feet of science, innovation and technology workspace and provides a benchmark for how public and private can work together to deliver growth for the country. As the Master Developer for the portfolio, our focus is on continuing to identify opportunities to generate maximum value from our projects and working with our partners to achieve the targeted outcomes. We are currently recruiting a Development Director to join the £1.9 billion Smithfield Birmingham project. The regeneration of the historic wholesale markets will deliver 4,000 new homes, 180,000sqm workspace, transformational green and active public realm capable of hosting large-scale city celebrations, and a new European market experience over the course of the next 10 years.

Key responsibilities include:

• Inspire and direct the Smithfield project team in accordance with the shared objectives for the project and how these interplay with business objectives.
• Be a representative of Lendlease within the community, with government and amongst industry.
• Lead a team with a focus on wellbeing, performance, success, outcomes, and career progression for all team members.
• Collaborate with senior members of the Development business and other Business Units to achieve outcomes.
• Ensure an agreed balance of support is provided from discipline areas, including infrastructure, construction, place making, social economic, sustainability and investment management to achieve project outcomes.
• Responsible for the financial performance of the project including the management of the overall commercial assessment and assisting the business in achieving business plan targets for each development stage.
• Work closely with the Project Director and Commercial Director to ensure project governance and reporting is timely, robustly and transparently carried out.
• Assist in the annual production of the Smithfield Business Plan that integrates with the overall Development/JV business plan.
• Responsible for ongoing evolution and excellence of Smithfield as an exemplar place with a strong community.
• Lead the development and implementation of an operational delivery strategy, establish Smithfield as a destination within Birmingham and secure the long term successful management of the place and assets.

About You

• Proven competency to carry out the accountabilities outlined above.
• Demonstrable experience of managing outcomes in large scale urban regeneration projects and demonstrable understanding of development and long-term asset management processes.
• A highly collaborative individual who demonstrates ability to bring together a multi layered team, and lead internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of owning meaningful and inclusive community engagement processes.
• Commercial acumen, decision making and negotiation skills.
• Proven exposure to managing 3rd party stakeholders.
• An understanding and appreciation of the contractual relationships between parties (landowners, partners, local authority, tenants, funders, banks etc.).
• A desire to think beyond physical transformation and drive socio economic improvements for local communities.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Strong people management and issue resolution skills, including the ability to upwardly manage internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to motivate and manage internal and external project teams, and delegate.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (e.g. property, engineering, architecture, or construction etc.).
• A passion for urban regeneration, built form, cities and placemaking and dedication to the ambition and future of Smithfield as a place and community.
• Relevant sector experience.
• Experience of leading community engagement processes.
• Experience of a Compulsory Purchase Order process from private treaty offers through to enquiry.
• Experience of planning and delivery of regeneration schemes.
• MRICS or MRTPI desirable.

Benefits of working at Lendlease

• Industry leading pension scheme.
• Private medical health benefit and dental plan options.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Life assurance.
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days.
• Wellbeing leave.
• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives.
• 24/7 confidential Employee assistance program.
• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gyms nationwide.

Lendlease is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer of choice by engaging, enabling and empowering our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Inclusion sets us all up for success and we particularly encourage applications from currently under-represented groups in our industry including those who self-identify as women, black, Asian, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or disabled.