Hybrid Assistant Development Manager – Fixed Term Contract

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About the role

  • Assistant Development Manager supporting the Development Director at The Crown Estate. Focus on high-value reinvigoration projects, managing multiple workstreams ensuring cost and value targets are met.

Responsibilities

  • Support the delivery of 2 development projects, progressing them through gateway processes and programme milestones
  • Contribute to quarterly business plan targets and maximise value across financial, social, and environmental dimensions
  • Collaborate with internal and external teams across commercial, infrastructure, energy, financial modelling, and stakeholder engagement
  • Monitor budgets and ensure cost and value targets are achieved
  • Maintain project documentation and governance, including Professional Services Agreements and cost forecasts
  • Promote innovation in placemaking, sustainability, digital integration, and social impact
  • Manage specific stakeholder relationships and support third-party negotiations
  • Work closely with functions such as Health & Safety, Sustainability, and Communications to align with strategic goals
  • Apply principles of agility, empowerment, and customer focus to drive project success
  • Ensure timely risk management and escalation when required

Requirements

  • Experience in development appraisals and feasibility analysis to identify viable opportunities
  • Strong communication skills, including governance reporting and documentation
  • Experience across mixed-use assets, particularly residential and commercial projects (desirable)
  • Familiarity with delivering projects through RIBA stages within defined budgets and timelines
  • Relevant qualification in Real Estate, Surveying, Engineering, or Architecture
  • Understanding of procurement and supply chain processes in large-scale development
  • Strong interpersonal skills, resilience, and diplomacy
  • Knowledge of London’s town planning environment and legal requirements for development
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively to achieve goals
  • Passion for placemaking and sustainable design, with agility to respond to evolving customer needs

Benefits

  • As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering
  • 28 days holiday with the option to buy more
  • Flexible working
  • Market leading family policies
  • Shopping discounts in the West End
  • Private healthcare
  • Life and critical illness cover

Job title

Assistant Development Manager – Fixed Term Contract

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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