Senior Development Manager

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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The Development Management Team is a new and expanding department within T&T and you will have the opportunity to be there from the beginning. We have won and are working on some very exciting projects based in both the North West and internationally. Our vision is to expand our team to enhance the capabilities we have and what we can offer our clients.

We have a great team of experienced, forward-thinking people and we would like to invite you to be part of the journey to grow this team and expand on the diversity of the projects that we lead and develop as Development Managers.

A DM can mean many things to many different people, therefore in a nutshell, this is what we believe a DM does;

The role is providing the ‘developer’ expertise, providing the strategic direction across the whole project, helping to write the business cases, managing the viability and undertaking the financial modelling, acting as the client lead on planning and third party issues, dealing with the land acquisition, driving scheme efficiencies etc. and acting as the Client’s lead consultant up to the point that the project moves into the construction delivery phase, when we then step back and let the PM take the lead.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person who is willing to be part of diverse team. With a flexible approach you will:

• Report to Development Directors to manage projects through all development phases
• Work as part of a team to undertake bid submissions to win new work
• Secure and complete the necessary administration for client commissions
• Take the lead on new development opportunities
• Obtain all statutory approvals / agreements in line with the client brief
• Write and contribute to business cases
• Undertake market analysis
• Develop and maintain long term relationships with external professional…