Development Manager

Job Description

Our client is a privately owned developer with a strong order book and solid funding behind it — no PE pressure, no committee-driven decision making, just a business that's grown steadily and now needs to add capability to match its pipeline. Projects span care, retail and residential, running concurrently across the country.

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They're looking for a Development Manager to take projects from early feasibility through to delivery, reporting directly to the MD. This is a genuinely autonomous role: you'll own your schemes end to end, not administer someone else's process.

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The company

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• Privately owned, financially stable, and not answerable to external investors

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• Strong, well-funded order book with visibility on projects well into the future

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• Growing deliberately rather than chasing scale for its own sake

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• Flat structure — decisions get made quickly, without layers of sign-off

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The role

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• Own projects from initial feasibility and appraisal through to practical completion

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• Run a live pipeline across care, retail and residential schemes at the same time

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• Report directly into the MD, with real day-to-day autonomy over how projects are run

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• Take the lead on site appraisals, viability, and development strategy at the front end

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• Instruct and coordinate consultants, contractors and design teams through delivery

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• Manage risk, programme and budget across each scheme personally

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• Represent the business directly with landowners, agents, funders and local authorities where required

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• Travel nationally to sites, with a base in Leicester

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What we're looking for

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• Background in quantity surveying or project management (development, construction or consultancy side)

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• Track record of taking schemes through feasibility, design and delivery stages

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• Comfortable owning multiple projects and sectors at once without close supervision

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• Someone who wants autonomy and is happy to be judged on outcomes, not hours at a desk

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• Confident dealing directly with senior stakeholders, funders and external consultants

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• Full UK driving licence — national travel is a core part of the role

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Why apply

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• Real autonomy: you run your projects, the MD doesn't run them for you

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• Backed by solid funding and a strong order book, not speculative growth

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• Broad sector exposure: care, retail and residential in one role

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• Direct line to the MD — decisions get made in days, not months

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• A business investing in growth, not maintaining the status quo

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