Senior Development Manager

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Company: IMS Group

Location: Richmond Hill, ON L4B 0A1

Description:

Job Descriptions:
  • Manage on a day-to-day basis multi-disciplinary consultant and project teams to secure favorable and timely municipal approvals.
  • Manage and produce development schedules, risks and opportunities to meet the Business Plan, enable sales launch and construction starts;
  • Provide strategic input, design direction and be responsible for official plan amendments, draft plan, re-zonings, site plan and condo applications, site servicing permits, registration;
  • The ideal candidate has direct community design experience from project acquisition, visioning through servicing, based on strong financial discipline. The numbers drive the decision-making process;
  • Prepare, review and internally validate land development proformas to maximize the financial performance opportunity and life of job budget management;
  • Lead, mentor and co-manage the work of one or more Assistant Managers/Managers ensuring both the quality of their work as well as their on-going engagement and professional growth;
  • Actively and continuously collaborate and communicate with various internal departments, ensuring that potential challenges or opportunities to plan, budget, schedule, and/or relationships are proactively identified, communicated, analyzed, and addressed. Proactively and positively engage with municipal and community stakeholders to advance the entitlement process, working with the company team to identify "win-win" scenarios;
  • Support company awareness and engagement in current development regulatory regimes;
  • Provide input into acquisition opportunities, including preparation of acquisition proformas, tentative project schedule and assessment memo highlighting the opportunity and risk;
  • Participate regularly in industry organizations and events, both to remain current on trends as well as to help develop company industry brand presence; and
  • Collaborate on developing and improving Company Best Practices

Job Requirements:
  • At least a bachelor's degree in a real estate related field is expected: real estate, urban planning/geography, engineering, business/finance, architecture, landscape architecture, law, etc. Applicants without formal business education should be prepared to demonstrate finance and other business skills/experience gained "on the job."
  • Ten (10) or more years of large scall residential focused multi-phase master plan community management.
  • The ideal candidate has directly been responsible for the preliminary and final proformas, budget management, submission and approvals of the development applications (OPA, DPA, ZBA, SPA), permits, condo set-up, completed interim occupancy and registrations.
  • Experience in developing residential projects in the GTHA and surrounding municipalities, being fluent in the local planning approval regulatory/policy framework, associated municipal processes and actors, etc.
  • Working knowledge of Landowner Group Cost Share Agreements.
  • Established relationships within the local real estate industry-particularly, consultants and municipal/community/other stakeholders-and an ability to build rapport with diverse group of people, particularly during challenging negotiations.
  • Rigorous customer-focus: real empathy for our customers/building users; ensuring decisions are viewed through the perspective of the customer/user; and willingness to advocate for the customer/user in complex decisions. Excellent and demonstrable project management skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple projects, relationships, tasks, and deadlines:
    • Strategic Execution: developing and driving project strategy; calling on the right people at the right time; challenging the process.
    • Communication: professional and proactive internal/external project status, timeline, and financial reporting; integrating well with all internal departments as well as external stakeholders; early detection and effective communication of risks and issues.
    • Negotiation: professional experience dealing ethically to resolve issues to maximize financial outcome while still maintaining relationships.
    • Relationships: consistently balancing the interests of all stakeholders (internal partners, external partners, consulting partners, municipal staff, political office holders, suppliers, trades, and customers/users).
    • Forward Planning and Thinking: particularly with regard to scheduling and resulting impacts on external and internal resources.
    • Financial Management: always managing by the numbers and understanding the project's financial position.
  • A fluent understanding of:
    • the various technical disciplines involved in residential development, including the ability to review and comment on consultant deliverables,
    • complex regulatory policy documents and associated legal agreements, being able to quickly digest and comment upon them.
    • Developed spatial skills, being able to identify how drawings relate to various regulatory/technical standards, site statistics, user experience and intended offering, etc.
  • A working level of numeracy and financial acumen.
  • Passion and drive for continual improvement and accomplishment, developing industry leading projects balanced with achieving company schedule and budget objectives.
  • Must be self-motivated, independent, and detail-oriented

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