Job Description

Urban Property Group is quickly becoming one of NSW's largest and most energetic residential developers and there's never been a more exciting time to join our team.

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A 4.5-star iCIRT-rated property company, Urban has over 40 years of experience delivering high-quality homes, workplaces and retail environments that shape thriving communities across Sydney. Today, we are a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary organisation, bringing together development, design and construction expertise under one roof. This end-to-end capability enables us to deliver on our vision to build for the way living should be, creating places that genuinely enhance how people live.

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As we continue to grow our pipeline, we're looking for an experienced Senior Development Manager to take ownership of projects from concept through to completion.

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The Role

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Working closely with our Project Director, you'll manage the full development lifecycle for our mixed‐use projects - from initial brief and feasibility through design, approvals, construction delivery, and settlement. This is a role for someone who understands how the pieces of a development fit together: design, cost, program, risk, and people all need to move in sync, and you'll be the one holding that picture together.

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You'll have real autonomy here, working directly with authorities, consultants, our internal delivery teams, and the finance and legal functions that keep a project on track.

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Key Responsibilities

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- Leading project and product briefs, budgets, and development forecasts, and keeping cost and program reporting on track month to month
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- Managing the design process to land a marketable, cost‐effective outcome that meets brief, budget, and timeframe
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- Driving planning and development approvals, and managing consultant teams through design documentation, Construction Certificates and Occupation Certificates
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- Building and maintaining strong working relationships with councils, state authorities (RFS, LPI, Office of Water, Sydney Water, Ausgrid) and, where relevant, joint venture partners
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- Reviewing contractor WH&S; systems and getting out to site regularly to check in on safety, quality, cost and design
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- Working with legal advisers on sales contracts, titling strategy, and funding approval documentation
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- Partnering with sales and marketing to keep collateral and delivery timelines aligned, and championing a customer‐first approach through to settlement
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- Supporting and coaching junior team members as part of a collaborative project team
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About You

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- A degree in Development, Construction, or a related field
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- At least 8 years' industry experience, including mixed‐use residential projects
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- A track record managing multi‐disciplinary consultant teams and full project delivery
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- Strong financial and budget management skills, with the ability to read and manage a project's numbers as closely as its design
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- Confident contract negotiation and stakeholder management skills — you'll be dealing with authorities, consultants, JV partners and internal teams alike
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- Someone resilient and adaptable, comfortable juggling competing design, cost, and constructability pressures without losing sight of the bigger picture
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Why Join Urban

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- Work across high‐quality, design‐led residential projects
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- Collaborative, down‐to‐earth team environment
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- A business that values quality, long‐term thinking and people‐first outcomes
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📌 Senior Development Manager (Burwood)
🏢 Urban Property Group
📍 Burwood