Assistant Development Manager

Role overview

• ID: 2024-6474
• Entity: Vistry
• Region: Vistry Central Home Counties
• Department: Pre-construction
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
• Date Posted: 04.11.2024

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Development Manager to join our team within Vistry Home Counties, at our office in Cheshunt. As our Assistant Development Manager, you will support the wider team in the efficient running of the development and key technical functions. Ensure allocated Company developments are processed and controlled with appropriate detail and due diligence to add and protect value and to satisfy financial performance criteria, project budgets and programme requirements.

We are pleased to say, this role can accommodate agile working arrangements.

• Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
  • Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
  • Agile working possible (dependent on role)
  • Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Private Healthcare
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
  • Share incentive schemes
  • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
• In return, what we would like from you...
  • Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
  • Degree level
  • Experience in assisting non-standard residential developments through the delivery process
  • To support the pre-construction process via the project team from option to completion
  • Capable of working in a team of people and coordinating the different contributors to a project
  • An ability to prioritise, to ensure all aspects of the job are completed to standard and on time
  • Ability to effectively negotiate, motivate and communicate to influence others to ensure that the required programmes are met
  • A general background knowledge in property combined with a relevant qualification
  • To undertake any other duties as deemed necessary from time to time
  • Assist the Technical Team in preparing and submitting ELT notes
  • A general background knowledge in property combined with a relevant qualification
  • Experience in a Development Graduate role or similar
  • Ability to work well with others in the wider team
  • Willingness to travel to sites across a wide geography

  Desirable...

  • Working towards a membership of a professional body
  • Confident in their own abilities
  • Can make informed decisions under pressure
• More about the Assistant Development Manager role...
  • To support the Major Projects division and Technical Team in the efficient running of the development and Technical function. To support the delivery process for the project from option to completion and handover.
  • To support the Major Projects division and Technical Team in their responsibility to ensure overall financial viability of the development is maintained and always controlled.
  • To support the Technical Team in their responsibility to ensure overall legal requirements are met for a development, including Section 106, Section 278, Section 38, and Section 104’s and any contractual obligations required.
  • To support the Technical Team and Planning Team in their responsibility to ensure planning consent is secured and the discharge of any planning conditions.
  • To support the Technical Team in their responsibility to secure internal governance approval.
  • To assist the Major Projects division in the progress of potential new developments or phases through the technical, legal, planning, financial, contractual, and detailed design.

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...

We’re Vistry Group, the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they’re needed most.

You’re probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there’s nowhere better to build your career. We’re proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.

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Benefits

Agile Working

Offers a flexible way of working.

Annual Leave

Enjoy 28 days’ holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.

Pension with Legal & General

Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.

Volunteer Days

With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.

Why Vistry

Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.