Senior Development Manager

Senior Development Manager

Our Development Solutions team at Willmott Dixon has an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Development Manager to join our team and expand capacity throughout our South West region.

With over five years of successfully partnering with public sector customers across a variety of sectors, our main aim now is to deliver current projects and grow further development‑led opportunities to support Willmott Dixon’s growth.

You will play a key role in the growth and success of our national development solutions team with a focus on delivering our current pipeline of mixed‑use regeneration projects and engaging with our new business and delivery teams to identify new opportunities. Your leadership will be instrumental in ensuring continued success in both delivery and expansion.

Ideally you will be based in the South West of England as we currently focus on projects along the South West Coast, but as the role evolves you could work on national projects and therefore you should be prepared to undertake regular travel.

Work‑life balance is important to us and, as our team is national, hybrid working is key to allow you to split your time between home, our offices (London, Bristol and Exeter), and visiting sites/customers.

Willmott Dixon is driven by quality and customer service and remains family‑owned, taking pride in our core values. We are passionate about people and have a real focus and drive around continuous development.

• Working with the existing development and preconstruction teams to manage, maintain and deliver the existing pipeline of development projects.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, consultants, funders and other stakeholders to deliver projects to site and successful outcomes for our customers.
• Establishing and creating development‑management services solutions for customers and delivering the service through to project completion.
• Identifying and understanding key alternative funding solutions and options.
• Creating and maintaining development appraisals on schemes, reporting internally and externally as required.
• Working closely with regional preconstruction teams to establish deliverable solutions that achieve relevant margin requirements.
• Managing relevant consultant relationships on projects.
• Identifying and mitigating risks/opportunities and developing contingency plans to eliminate risk and optimise returns to ensure that projects evolve to meet and better the financial and programme requirements.

• Leading and managing development‑opportunity related bids and feasibilities to successful outcomes.
• Representing Willmott Dixon development solutions publicly and encouraging/developing new relationships to grow the team and our reputation.
• Collaborating with and supporting other regional development managers to grow their pipeline, including supporting business development, bids, tenders, attending events, etc.
• Managing relationships and key accounts for regional development customers/partners/frameworks.

• A passion to creatively identify new opportunities, push boundaries and engage strategically to help our customers deliver their outcomes.
• Experience working in a development‑related function previously (ideally with an in‑house developer/contractor – desirable but not essential).
• Strong business‑development skills and experience in identifying and creatively delivering projects in partnership with the public sector.
• Proven commercial acumen, experienced in developing and reporting on commercial appraisals & financial modelling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including report writing, presenting and pitching ideas. IT‑proficient including MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams and appraisal software.

• Mixed‑use development experience (town centre, retail, leisure, community, office and residential).
• Knowledge of public‑partnering contractual arrangements (development agreements, partnership agreements, JV’s, etc.).
• Knowledge of funding routes (either private funding or public‑sector grant funding).
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