Location: Manchester – Fountain Street
Salary: £91,695.00 - £114,620.00 plus £5,000.00 car allowance
Hours: 36 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
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We’re seeking a Senior Development Manager to lead Clarion’s residential and mixed-use developments across a diverse portfolio. This role includes a key focus on driving the development and delivery of the Dyecoats Leeds Project, alongside supporting the planning, funding and future phases of this significant scheme. You’ll manage a high-performing team and key projects, delivering strong commercial outcomes and supporting the continued growth of our development programme.
In this role, you’ll be responsible and accountable for the development management of residential-led and mixed-use schemes, ensuring they meet the commercial objectives set out in approved business plans. You’ll motivate and guide your team to deliver Clarion’s development strategy, overseeing operational performance, driving accountability, and ensuring innovative, compliant design solutions that meet both business and regulatory requirements. Working closely with the Regional Managing Director, you’ll also manage Development Managers, Assistant Development Managers, and wider development functions as required.
You’ll provide strategic financial leadership across projects, delivering analysis and modelling to inform decision-making, managing budgets and risks, and supporting business planning to ensure value for money and the achievement of KPIs.
We’re looking for an experienced residential development professional with strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, a creative and commercial mindset, and a solid background in master planning and place creation. A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience is required. Professional qualifications such as RICS, RTPI, or CIOB are desirable, although candidates with equivalent experience are also encouraged to apply.
If this sounds like an opportunity for you then please review the full role profile before applying.
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Closing Date: 27th May 2026 at midnight.
This is a hybrid role based at our Manchester office. You’ll be expected to attend the office regularly, with occasional travel to site locations as required.
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You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Clarion are not able to offer visa sponsorship. You are required to reside in England or Wales for the duration of your employment.
This vacancy may close without notice.
Skills Required
- Relevant degree or equivalent professional experience
- Professional qualifications such as RICS, RTPI, or CIOB
What We Do
We are Clarion - the country’s largest housing association, We provide a home to 350,000 people nationwide. We build more than 2,000 new homes a year and through Clarion Futures (our charitable foundation) we provide opportunities for our residents to thrive – supporting people into work, improving neighbourhoods and focusing on sustainability. We exist because there is a housing crisis in our country. There simply aren’t enough affordable and suitable places for people to live. You might have experienced this yourself, or have friends and family who have. We believe having a home to call your own is fundamental to being able to access the right opportunities in life. That is why our mission is to provide homes for those who need them most, We’re all driven by this shared purpose at Clarion. We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to build a better future and we’re relentless in pursuing it
