Job Description
Role overview
* ID: 2025-7315
* Entity: Vistry Services
* Region: Vistry Services
* Department: Strategic Land
* Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
* Job Location: Brentwood, Essex
* Date Posted: 15.05.2025
We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Project Director to join our team within Vistry Services Strategic Land, at our Brentwood office and on-site in Chelmsford. As our Associate Project Director, you will be responsible for the ongoing delivery of our flagship project at Beaulieu to completion, responsible for budget control, on-site infrastructure delivery and project management. Additionally, project lead for a number of smaller sites, as well as Technical/Development support for the wider Strategic Land team. The role will suit an experienced Technical/Construction/Development specialist with a history of successfully delivering complex consortium projects at scale, focused on the on-site technical/engineering delivery. This position will report to the Head of Technical.
* Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
o Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
o Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
o Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
o Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
o 2 Volunteering days per annum
o Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
o Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
o Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
o Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
o Share save and share incentive schemes
o Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
* In return, what we would like from you...
o Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
o 5 GCSEs to include Maths and English
o Experience in the provision of strategic infrastructure
o History of delivery from land acquisition to adoption
o Experience of financial modelling and budget control
o An ability to prioritize and delegate as appropriate
o A general background knowledge in development, civil and project management
o Excellent knowledge of Section 38, 104 and 278 Adoption Agreements
o Procuring multi-utility packages and an understanding of statutory service wayleaves and easements
o An understanding of contract procurement under ICC and NEC forms of contract
o Excellent communication and project management
o Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships across all internal and external parties
o Highly organized, motivated and goal-orientated
o Full diving licence
Desirable...
o Degree in appropriate field
o Membership of a professional body
o Confident in their own abilities
o Can make informed decisions under pressure
o Ability to see opportunities to value engineer where opportunities arise
o Working knowledge of Health and Safety best practice
o Prince 2 Foundation/Practitioner
* More about the Associate Project Director role...
o Project Lead for a flagship scheme with significant infrastructure delivery and oversight of 2 on-site Project Managers.
o The delivery of primary infrastructure to serve both internal and external land sales across our portfolio. Taking responsibility for and supporting the cost consultant and contract administrator and working with NEC and ICC forms of contract with a Principal Contractor.
o Manage, review and maintain the financial viability of each development and ensure technical budgets and cost to completes are forecast and robustly controlled, whilst liaising with the Financial Analysis team feeding into longer term budgets and forecasts.
o Lead and support a Vistry team where necessary in the delivery, maintenance and adoption of roads, drainage and open spaces.
o Programme, risk and opportunity registers and exit strategies are to be maintained in the agreed Strategic Land format for regular review.
o Ensure all contractual and legal requirements are logged, tracked and delivered for allocated developments.
o Secure pre and post start activities and planning conditions to be discharged via liaison with the Planning Team, Land Team and Local Planning Officer.
o Secure internal governance approval and ensure that all other necessary permissions have been applied for and secured to prevent delays occurring to start on site and project delivery.
o Work collaboratively with Vistry operating regions and other housebuilders, to enable their housebuilding delivery through efficient sitewide project management.
o Provide visibility across Vistry Group and operating Regions as to progress against target milestones.
o Manage consultant expenditure within the project budget.
o Show a strong team ethic within a multi-skilled Strategic Land team, demonstrating Vistry’s core values of Integrity, Caring and Quality.
o Be an ambassador for Vistry and Strategic Land to our customers, subcontractors, statutory authorities and the general public.
Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...
We build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empowerus to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation,â¯and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach.
Join us in making Vistry.
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Benefits
Annual Leave
Enjoy 28 days’ holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.
Pension with Legal & General
Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and op