The essentials:
Role: Head of Development Delivery
Platform: Group
Status: Full time, permanent.
Salary: £90-100k, based on experience
Bonus: TBD
Start: ASAP
Base: London. We typically work 4 days in the office, 1 day from home.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week.
Benefits:
* 25 holiday days per year;
* 4 ‘Me Days’ per year (take a Me Day – focus on you);
* Team social events and trips;
* Wellness allowance of £70 per month to be used for gym, classes, physio or other wellness costs;
* Private healthcare with Vitality;
* Mintago financial platform;
* Drive Electric salary sacrifice;
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and parental leave;
* Employee referral scheme: £2,000 towards a getaway of your choice.
HSPG: A social impact real estate company
Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.
There is a critical lack of affordable housing across the UK, affecting the most vulnerable people in our community.
We build long-term partnerships with Local Authorities to acquire and manage demand-driven social and affordable housing across various tenures, as per the image below.
Across HSPG’s Living Sector platforms, we are actively acquiring 2,500 high-quality homes from national housebuilders and developers by the end of 2025. These properties are managed by our experienced team, grouped into portfolios, and funded by our institutional investment partners.
HSPG aims to positively impacts our residents’ lives, while providing long-term, sustainable returns for our investment partners
PPHA:
As part of HSPG, a leading social impact real estate company, PPHA is the Group’s Registered Provider. We partner with local authorities, housebuilders, and investors to create high-quality, affordable homes across Section 106, grant-funded Affordable Rent, and Shared Ownership.
Our mission is simple: to empower futures by giving families and first-time buyers the chance to find stability, security, and a place to call home. By 2030, we aim to deliver quality affordable homes for over 5,000 families. Strengthening communities and transforming lives along the way.
Core mission:
As Head of Development Delivery, your core mission is to ensure the home is ready, safe, of an excellent standard and meets all regulatory requirements for our customer. There are many elements to this, including timescale, budget, profitability, meeting stakeholder expectations, but they key is always: have you facilitated the process that leads to the customer living in a safe, comfortable home that you would be happy to live in?
You will oversee all elements of Development, Construction and Delivery across HSPG, ensuring projects are delivered to the agreed specification, timescale, budget, quality, customer expectation, and health and safety standards. You will drive the development strategy, including advising on target locations, key scheme metrics, developer track record, Homes England grant funding requirements, and changing target demographics.
You will lead a Delivery team across London and Manchester to deliver multiple projects across:
* Larger schemes of Shared Ownership and Affordable/Social Rent for PPHA.
* Smaller, complex refurbishment and conversion schemes within Seahorse (£100k–£1m).
* Development opportunities within our portfolio, including tendering and cost management.
You will work closely with all Platforms to shape proposals for new and refurbished homes, ensuring they meet specification objectives, regulatory requirements, and the overall aims of the business. This includes interpreting surveys and reports to inform design, ensuring compliance with social housing regulations.
You’ll own procurement processes, ensuring timely delivery, accurate budgets, value for money, and high-quality homes. You’ll also ensure compliance, H&S, insurance, and construction quality are monitored on site, with verified documentation ready ahead of PC to enable onboarding and income generation. You’ll ensure that compliance and handover documentation is provided ahead of PC, verified for quality, and ready for onboarding and lease signing; enabling timely income generation.
You will align all internal teams including Sales, Customer Service and Onboarding, Finance, and Investor Relations to ensure delivery strategies complement their processes. You will be accountable for all aspects of the Delivery flywheel, including site relationships, monitoring of employer’s agents and clerk of works, contractors and consultants, reporting, negotiation with developers/housebuilders, sign-off of PCs and handovers, snagging, and customer satisfaction. You will also play a key role in building relationships with Housing Provider partners on our Supported Exempt Accommodation platform, Seahorse, to optimise specification delivery, handovers, and defect remediation.
Obsess: These points get you out of bed in the morning and keep you up at night! If you’re not obsessed with these, the role isn’t for you.
* Trust, honesty and integrity: You are negotiating millions of pounds on our behalf. Every penny matters: how you do something is how you do everything.
* Leadership and delegation: You are an excellent leader, developing your team and leveraging external resources with mutual trust, high standards, and big expectations.
* The customer: You only accept handover when the product meets our quality standards. You understand the importance of being present on site, either personally or through your team, to ensure smooth delivery for our customers.
Excel: You are excellent at these areas: an expert.
* Negotiating: You achieve optimal costs and timescales for every scheme, fostering long-term relationships in a win-win environment.
* Risk identification: You guard HSPG’s reputation and income by anticipating compliance, delivery, and stakeholder risks. You uphold the most up-to-date compliance, regulatory, and H&S requirements across all platforms.
* Process efficiencies: You are obsessed with creating a best-in-class department, including robust procurement and inter-departmental processes and reporting to keep all areas of the business adequately updated.
Specific experience:
* 10+ years’ experience in a Development or Delivery function, with demonstrable experience of successfully leading teams, including external teams ie EA’s/ Clerk of Works.
* Familiarity with CDM, HSE, Building Control obligations, and client-side responsibilities.