Head of Development and Delivery - New Homes

Head of Development and Delivery - for our North-East and Yorkshire new homes programme

Circa £90,000 per annum, plus car allowance of £5055 per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Based in the region with hybrid working from our office in Newcastle Upon Tyne two days per week, from home and regular travel to our Leeds office and sites across the regional portfolio.  

Home, a place where you belong

We’re looking for an incredible leader who can supercharge performance leading our North-East and Yorkshire regional development programme, supporting us to deliver the right homes in the right places for our customers. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to make your mark, delivering our new homes mixed tenure programme from inception through to completion, ensuring that an excellent offer for our customers and communities always lies at the heart of delivery.  

Key priorities as Head of Development and Delivery


* As a key member of our business leadership team, ensuring a commercially viable development programme, carefully managing income and expenditure, identifying new opportunities and progressing schemes which include joint ventures with developers and contractors.


* Leading our development programme from strategy to site identification, sale/rent through to aftercare, working collaboratively with your team to ensure successful delivery.


* Ensuring our new homes programme is innovative, market leading, sustainable and co-designed with customers, driving growth and surplus.  You'll support us in the move towards greater consolidation and quality towards Net Zero.


* Providing strong, clear and expert leadership promoting a culture of performance, transparency and excellence - casting a positive shadow.  You’ll inspire, influence and lead a high performing team, driving service excellence. 

You’ll do that here, working in a top ten Great Place to Work in the UK employer!  We’re winners of the UK Housing Awards Development Programme of the Year (2018), Silver Best House at the What House Awards (2018 and bronze in 2017) and RESI Landlord of the Year 2016 and 2020. 

You bring


* Significant experience within the housing sector.

A degree and relevant professional qualification such as CIOH, RICS, CIOB would also be advantageous. 


* Strong experience in managing the end-to-end development process from opportunity identification, option analysis, master planning, design, delivery, sales and aftercare. 


* Credibility in the sector, with proven skills to lead change, drive continuous improvement and innovations. 


* Strong skills in developing business plans, influencing strategy and managing P&L.


* Excellent people manager with strong leadership skills and the ability to engage, influence, transform and make it a great place to work for your team.  

Our team

Reporting to Kitson, our Director of Development, you’ll be part of o...