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Development Manager - Low Rise
Harbinger Network has partnered with an award-winning Developer Builder for both low and high-rise RESIDENTIAL communities across Southern Ontario. With a track record of providing the highest quality community projects, this organization is growing its land pipeline and as such has a requirement to add another pair of strategically-minded hands to their Team. Viewed as one of the trusted names in the industry, this is a well-known group that will offer progression and opportunity to work on some of the most exciting projects in Southern Ontario.
Responsibilities

• Participate regularly in industry organizations and events, both to remain current on trends as well as to help develop the Company’s industry brand presence.
• Provide input into acquisition opportunities, including preparation of acquisition proformas, tentative project schedule and assessment memo highlighting the opportunity and risk
• Manage and produce development schedules, risks and opportunities to meet the Business Plan, enable sales launch and construction starts
• Support the Company’s awareness and engagement in current development regulatory regimes.
• 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
• Collaborate on developing and improving Best Practices.
• 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.
• Manage on a day-to-day basis multi-disciplinary consultant and project teams to secure favourable and timely municipal approvals for low-rise, lowrise freehold and condo developments.
• 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.
• Maintain and promote customer/user awareness, ensuring that the specific needs, desires, and aspirations of the ultimate customers/users are considered in decisions.
• Proactively and positively engage with municipal and community stakeholders to advance the entitlement process, working with the team to identify “win-win” scenarios.

What You Bring

• A fluent understanding of:
• Must be self-motivated, independent, and detail-oriented.
• 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.”
• Passion and drive for continual improvement and accomplishment, developing industry-leading projects balanced with achieving the Company’s schedule and budget objectives.
• Proven track record of excelling within a team-oriented and collaborative environment.
• Negotiation: professional experience dealing ethically to resolve issues to maximize financial outcome while still maintaining relationships.
• 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.
• Strategic Execution: developing and driving project strategy; calling on the right people at the right time; challenging the process.
• A working level of numeracy and financial acumen.
• Concise writing and presentation skills are required.
• Relationships: consistently balancing the interests of all stakeholders (internal partners, external partners, consulting partners, municipal staff, political office holders, suppliers, trades, and customers/users).
• Excellent and demonstrable project management skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple projects, relationships, tasks, and deadlines:
• 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.
• Technical skills:
• 7 or more years in low rise residential real estate development, with progression into management of complex development projects and associated approvals.
• Financial Management: always managing by the numbers and understanding the project’s financial position.
• 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.
• Complex regulatory policy documents and associated legal agreements, being able to quickly digest and comment upon them.
• The ideal candidate has directly been responsible for the preliminary and final proformas, budget management, submission and approvals of the development applications, permits, condo set-up, completed interim occupancy and registrations.
• Forward Planning and Thinking: particularly with regard to scheduling and resulting impacts on external and internal resources.
• The various technical disciplines involved in low-rise residential development, including the ability to review and comment on consultant deliverables,
• Developed spatial skills, being able to identify how drawings relate to various regulatory/technical standards, site statistics, user experience and intended offering, etc.
• 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.