Location: Manchester – Fountain Street
Salary: £91,696.00 - £126,082.00 per annum plus £5,000.00 car allowance
Hours: 36 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
This is a great opportunity to join our team - Employer of the Year Housing Heroes awards 2025
We’re seeking an experienced and inspiring leader to join us as Regional Director of Project Management in Manchester.
Reporting to Regional Managing Director, you’ll oversee Project Management, Design Management and Cost Planning, and all pre-construction services necessary to enable delivery of a range of residential led projects. At a time when the delivery of housing is very much at the centre of the national agenda, you will be able to play a key part in delivering new affordable homes across the country.
You will lead a team of colleagues based out of our Manchester office and work closely with other teams across the business from the inception of a project right the way through to the handover and aftercare of our customers mew homes. The range of projects will vary from mixed-use, high-rise city centre regeneration to joint venture housing schemes.
You will be taking the lead in ensuring that a strong project and programme management discipline is applied making sure we deliver in line with the vision, brief and business plan. In doing so you will lead, motivate, develop and manage your team and foster a spirit of collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
You’ll be an excellent communicator and a Chartered Member of the RICS or CIOB and have experience of overseeing multiple projects with a contractor, developer, housebuilder or consultant leading general pre-construction activities with scheme values averaging £50m. You will need strong project management skills, a technical understanding of different construction technologies including high rise buildings and lots of experience in planning, programming and procuring developments to budget. You will also have a strong track record managing multi-disciplinary design teams.
Please review the full role profile and Behaviours & Mandatory Accountabilities OD level 1 and 2 before applying.
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Closing Date: 30th August 2026 at midnight.
With hybrid working, base locations across England and flexible working arrangements this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for!
You will be based at our Manchester office. Travel will be required to project sites and other Clarion offices as and when required.
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You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Clarion are not able to offer visa sponsorship. You are required to reside in England or Wales for the duration of your employment.
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We are Clarion - the country’s largest housing association. We provide a home to 360,000 people nationwide. We build more than 2,000 new homes a year and through Clarion Futures (our charitable foundation) we provide opportunities for our residents to thrive – supporting people into work, improving neighbourhoods and focusing on sustainability.
We exist because there is a housing crisis in our country. There simply aren’t enough affordable and suitable places for people to live. You might have experienced this yourself, or have friends and family who have.
We believe having a home to call your own is fundamental to being able to access the right opportunities in life. That is why our mission is to provide homes for those who need them most,
We’re all driven by this shared purpose at Clarion. We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to build a better future, and we’re relentless in pursuing it.
