Development Manager

The role

You will carry projects across the full cycle from DA lodgement and approval through design management, consultant coordination, contractor engagement, and delivery. This involves managing a portfolio of retail, mixed-use, and industrial assets.

What you will do

• Lead the lodgement and management of development applications, S4.55 amendments, and rezoning applications
• Drive the consultant team through each stage of the DA process
• Manage council correspondence and hold the programme through to approval
• Build and maintain development feasibilities, running sensitivity analyses and modelling capex scenarios
• Contribute first-cut budget analysis
• Carry projects from DA approval through to delivery
• Manage cost, quality, and programme
• Hold consultants and contractors to account
• Lead tendering processes
• Negotiate contracts and manage project budgets

Required qualifications

• Several years of hands-on development experience across complex mixed-use, retail, or industrial projects
• Track record of lodging DAs, managing consultant teams through the full cycle, and working through conditions and amendments
• Genuine financial capability across feasibility modelling, discount cash flows, and capex analysis
• Experience managing contractor and consultant relationships through tendering, contract negotiation, and delivery
• Discipline to manage competing deadlines across a diverse portfolio without losing accuracy

Nice to have

• Financial modelling is a genuine strength

Benefits

• End-to-end ownership from DA through to delivery
• Privately owned business with long-term thinking
• Small, high-trust team
• Real scope to grow into a more senior position

About the company

A privately owned Australian property group that develops, builds, and manages a diversified portfolio for the long term. Their assets span retail, industrial, and residential across Sydney.