Development Manager
3 days ago
Leicester
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. \n \n 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. \n \n The company \n\n • Privately owned, financially stable, and not answerable to external investors\n, • Strong, well-funded order book with visibility on projects well into the future\n, • Growing deliberately rather than chasing scale for its own sake\n, • Flat structure — decisions get made quickly, without layers of sign-off\n\n \n The role \n\n • Own projects from initial feasibility and appraisal through to practical completion\n, • Run a live pipeline across care, retail and residential schemes at the same time\n, • Report directly into the MD, with real day-to-day autonomy over how projects are run\n, • Take the lead on site appraisals, viability, and development strategy at the front end\n, • Instruct and coordinate consultants, contractors and design teams through delivery\n, • Manage risk, programme and budget across each scheme personally\n, • Represent the business directly with landowners, agents, funders and local authorities where required\n, • Travel nationally to sites, with a base in Leicester\n\n \n What we're looking for \n\n • Background in quantity surveying or project management (development, construction or consultancy side)\n, • Track record of taking schemes through feasibility, design and delivery stages\n, • Comfortable owning multiple projects and sectors at once without close supervision\n, • Someone who wants autonomy and is happy to be judged on outcomes, not hours at a desk\n, • Confident dealing directly with senior stakeholders, funders and external consultants\n, • Full UK driving licence — national travel is a core part of the role\n\n \n Why apply \n\n • Real autonomy: you run your projects, the MD doesn't run them for you\n, • Backed by solid funding and a strong order book, not speculative growth\n, • Broad sector exposure: care, retail and residential in one role\n, • Direct line to the MD — decisions get made in days, not months\n, • A business investing in growth, not maintaining the status quo\n\n