Senior Delivery Manager

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Advert Close date : 3rd October 2025

Overview

The Crown Estate is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Delivery Manager to lead the successful delivery of a diverse range of development projects across London and the Regions. This role is pivotal in scaling up our delivery and project management capabilities, ensuring excellence across pre-construction, construction, and handover phases. You will be instrumental in driving innovation, sustainability, and customer-centric outcomes across a £5bn development pipeline that includes housing, mixed-use regeneration, science and tech, and commercial offerings.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management and delivery strategy implementation across new-build and heritage retrofit projects.
• Oversee procurement of construction contracts and consultant appointments, ensuring best practice and value creation.
• Champion a safety-first culture and embed health and safety policies across all delivery activities.
• Manage commercial aspects including change control, budget oversight, and monthly reporting.
• Drive sustainability outcomes including net zero, biodiversity, and social value creation.
• Foster strong relationships with tenants, supply chain partners, and community stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Development, Property Management, Asset Management, and Sustainability teams to ensure seamless project execution.
• Represent The Crown Estate at industry events and lead initiatives that promote innovation and efficiency.
• Support governance and reporting requirements including Quarterly Business Reviews and project control groups.
• Lead phasing strategies, buildability reviews, and stakeholder liaison with technical bodies.
• Promote teamwork, knowledge sharing, and a culture of continuous improvement across the organisation.

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Our Offering

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability and Accessibility

Disability Disclaimer : We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity. If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk .

The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other. It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.

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