Development Manager

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more.

Join our Regeneration Team at L&Q: We are looking for a Development Manager to join our Regeneration team. This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced development sector professional seeking to advance their career. The posts report into the Head of Development and Regeneration. Your role will be to project manage L&Q's interests in joint venture and regeneration housing development schemes from acquisition to practical completion. You may also lead on legacy regeneration schemes, where defect rectification works are being undertaken. As such, you will have a thorough understanding of housing development, project management and awareness of statutory legal and regulatory requirements.

Skills and experience:

• Excellent communication, networking and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively with internal stakeholder teams such as Sales, PRS, Finance, and Housing Management - and external consultants, contractors and development partners.
• Ability to communicate respectfully with residents and engage communities alongside our Communities team and the L&Q Foundation.

Your impact in the role:

• Successfully lead a project team of a wide and sometimes competing range of internal and external stakeholders who won’t report directly to you.
• Active relationship management and leadership skills are essential as well as the ability to communicate in writing and face-to-face.
• Accuracy of financial reporting and business plan management.
• Ability to respond to unplanned demands or situations is essential.
• Attention to detail when it comes to identifying and managing opportunity and risk.
• Drive to ensure your projects outperform their agreed targets even in challenging environments.
• Negotiating the best possible outcomes for L&Q, even where there may be gaps in contract documentation or requests internally for changes post contract award.
• Knowledge of build contract law, particularly development agreements, build contracts and joint venture agreements.

At the foundation of everything that we do are our corporate values and associated behaviours. Our organisational behavioural framework outlines the core expectations of all employees, which should be demonstrated at all times when representing L&Q.

About L&Q: We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life. 250,000 people call our properties 'home', and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England. People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger - and they’re at the heart of everything we do. When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.