Company Description

The UK is facing a housing crisis, and not everyone has the means to enjoy the security and stability of owning their own home. Our aim at Legal & General Affordable Homes is to transform the affordable housing sector. With a fast-growing pipeline of over 80,000 homes, we’re committed to investing in housing for all ages, social groups and tenures. We’re collaborating with developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country to drive investment into the UK’s affordable housing and social housing sector. Focusing primarily on the affordable rent, shared ownership and rent-to-buy markets, we’re striving to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes. We want to have a positive economic and social impact on the regions and communities in which we work.

Legal & General Affordable Homes is a subsidiary of Legal & General Capital, which focuses on growth opportunities and scale ups, and invests its long-term capital in sectors in need of investment and innovation.

Job Description

Your role at a glance

The role holder’s primary responsibility will be to manage a portfolio of sites in the  South/South West to deliver great quality, sustainable affordable homes. Homes will be delivered through two main routes to market; partnership sites where schemes are delivered in with development partners or on land-led sites where LGAH acquires land, secures planning permission, designs and delivers homes with a main contractor. The role holder will therefore be responsible for the direct delivery of high quality affordable-led housing schemes through land acquisition, securing planning permission and/or working in partnership with delivery partners.

What you'll be doing

• You will lead and manage the complete project development cycle from concept to start on site working collaboratively with the delivery team to achieve commercial success of the project through to practical completion.
• You will be the lead person taking financial accountability for the schemes that are under the leadership of the post holder and to ensure they are delivered in accordance with the approved financial position.
• You will lead specialists internally and externally to ensure; forecasts, programmes, costs, design and quality standards and timescales are met. Assess and oversee all risks including health and safety are appropriately controlled and LGAH’s ERs, obligations and targets achieved.
• You will establish and manage relationships with developers, contractors, agents, consultants, local authorities and other public sector bodies.
• You will be working with the development compliance manager, liaise with Homes England and other grant funding bodies to secure grant into schemes. The role holder will be responsible for ensuring that scheme are procured and delivered in line with Homes England funding requirements.
• You will ensure projects meet LGAH business sustainability, ESG and social value obligations and targets.
• You will demonstrate awareness of current and future market conditions/trends and construction and development opportunities, including willingness to consider, evaluate and recommend direction for the company to follow to drive growth within the financial parameters of the business.
• Procure, appoint, lead and manager the multi-disciplinary project teams, including architect, town planner and wider consultancy team.
• Where relevant, lead and manage the preparation and submission of the planning application process to ensure delivery of the planning permission within statutory timeframe and within budget, including preparation and negotiation of the Section 106 in consultation with the Local Planning Authority (LPA) and regional authority where appropriate.
• Where required, prepare bids for the acquisition of land and ensure bids are signed off by the Head of Development & Commercial prior to submission.
• Negotiate land transactions, including Heads of Terms, Sale/Purchase Agreement, Development Agreement and be responsible for all internal approvals.

Qualifications

• Degree educated or equivalent.
• Good academic background, with a numerical aptitude
• Preferably a professional qualification in a development or construction discipline
• Delivering residential development and construction – preferably in the affordable and market housing sectors
• Developing and leading teams that deliver programmes of development  across multiple sites
• Establishing and maintaining trustworthy relationships with supply chain partners and professional advisors that are current and potential future partners
• Developing new teams, systems and capabilities to deliver business results
• Delivering good returns through effective value creation processes and effective project management and risk management 
• Deep experience in delivering numerous residential development schemes
• Deep locality specific knowledge of both the affordable housing and wider residential sectors, in particular an expert understanding of affordable housing development and regulatory requirements
• Knowledge of developing new business and capabilities
• Acting efficiently and productively within defined decision making processes
• Capable of analysing trends, competitor activity and opportunities in the market to understand and prioritise the requirements for development
• An entrepreneurial spirit that embraces change and is comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environment
• A commercial person that works collaboratively with colleagues within and across the Group  with the capability of being highly effective in a developing corporate environment

Additional Information

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including family private medical insurance, 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and life assurance. You'll receive a car allowance of 10% of your annual salary, and you can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.