Property Development and Sales Jobs at Anchor

The Development and Sales Team are essential to Anchor's Business Plan goal to provide more and better homes where people love living in later life. We have a range of exciting opportunities across the different sections of our Developments and Sales team.

Working in Developments and Sales at Anchor

The Development Team drive our ambitious Development Programme outlined in our new Development Strategy, focusing on maximising the amount of affordable housing we deliver. The team looks at how we best use existing sites as well as buying new ones, working with local authorities, developers and strategic landowners to meet communities’ needs.

Whilst we have offices in London and Bradford, our Development and Sales team is fully remote and are based at home, meaning you have flexibility to balance the demands of being part of a high-performing team with your home-life.

For more information on the roles available, Anchor’s fantastic benefits package and to apply visit here or view vacancies across each of our teams below.

About Anchor’s Development and Sales Team

The Development and Sales team explore partnering opportunities and invest where we can best maximise income to support our social purpose. Homes England and the Greater London Authority are key partners for Anchor, and we seek to utilise grant funding.

Our focus is to ensure new homes are comfortable and affordable, reduce environmental impact, enhance biodiversity, support sustainable transport options, and minimise exposure to climate risks such as flooding and overheating.

This year we are considering our approach to working with others and are in the process of developing a Joint Ventures Strategy. We’re investing in growing the number of homes we can offer those older people in England who are most in need; and we want to invest in your growth too.

Join us for growth and stability

We have a strong and stable financial position to back our long-term plan and we want talented and ambitious people to join us to make it happen. We’ve created several new senior roles across our Development and Sales Department to help lead this drive for growth, and we’re also looking for a number of key team members to deliver it.

Meet our team

Oliver Boundy is Anchor's Executive Director, Development. Oliver joined Anchor in 2022 and is responsible for the development and sales programme across the full range of Anchor’s housing and care services.

He spent almost six years at Southern Housing Group, where he was Executive Director Development and Growth, responsible for a significant development and sales programme and strategic partnerships with Homes England and the Greater London Authority.

He began his career working on the Edmonton Green Regeneration Project before joining the Development Team at Metropolitan where he held various positions over 10 years. In 2014, Oliver became Assistant Development Director at Origin Housing where he oversaw the expansion of the company’s development programme and supported the organisation into becoming a key partner in the Heart of Harrow Housing Zone.

Land and Regeneration Team

The Land and Regeneration Team are responsible for delivering Anchor’s pipeline of opportunities for growth through development. The team sources, appraises and builds business cases for new schemes either from new land opportunities, strategic partnerships or the redevelopment of stock arising from Anchor’s current portfolio. They’re targeted to secure at least 500 new homes to start each year. They lead the negotiations to secure the pipeline and take schemes through to a successful planning permission. Anchor is currently progressing a pipeline of over £300 million worth of development and in the last year has completed over £30m of acquisitions totalling 786 homes and secured planning on 676 homes.

The Land and Regeneration team work very closely with the other teams within the Development and Sales department and manages the key internal stakeholder relationships in the wider business to get support for our programme, before passing projects to our Delivery team to run the contractor procurement and onsite construction management.

Development Delivery Team

The Development Delivery Team are accountable for the delivery of projects from the point we receive planning permission to the closure of the defect’s liability period. To do this our team has Development Managers, Seniors and Officers split to cover the north and the south of the country. We also have a New Homes and Customer Care Team that has the customer at the heart of its functions and ensures each development fits seamlessly into our business-as-usual operations, as well as dealing with any aftercare issues.

Programme Team

This newly formed team will enable the Development and Sales directorate to achieve a high performing team culture, using systems, data, insight and process review to help the Leadership Team set the vision for the department. The team will also manage our key relationships with Homes England and the Mayor of London through our grant funding programmes. The work will involve strong engagement with the development teams, other internal departments and external stakeholders to help us make better-informed decisions and to provide meaningful insights into our performance and risk.

Technical and Design Team

The Design and Technical Team consist of a broad range of skilled and experienced colleagues who are involved in supporting the delivery of our developments providing guidance and technical input from Inception to Handover of a project.

They are responsible for creating and maintaining the design standards for all new developments in meeting the wider stakeholders and customers, ensuring that our Employers Requirements are also meeting the standards that ensure our developments are compliant with Anchor requirements. Defining the parameters for meeting our net zero carbon aspirations and Building Safety compliance through the use of technology such as BIM to meet the requirements for a digital Golden Thread of information.

The team support the procurement of the external delivery team including consultants and contractors. We oversee the quality of workmanship on site through our dedicated team of Clerk of Works and Building Services Managers. They ensure that we are meeting the highest standards of quality and compliance to ensure the safety, security and comfort of our residents who will live in these new homes.