Development Surveyor

6 days ago

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom Savills Full time

Job Summary

The Development Surveyor will play a key role in the Norwich office, working on a range of transactional and advisory projects. The successful candidate will have a strong background in development surveying, with experience in strategic land, agency, and consultancy work.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with agency colleagues to gain insight into client base and existing instructions.
  • Oversee existing agency and strategic land instructions.
  • Maintain Savills Maps within the patch to establish potential strategic land opportunities.
  • Seek and secure new strategic land instructions, establish an option/promotion agreement, and support the landowner through to the completion of the land sale.
  • Forge good relationships with local planners, architects, and other relevant parties to secure new agency instructions.
  • Work alongside other team members to source and process consultancy work.
  • Oversee agency compliance.
  • Work with other Norwich office teams and the regional development teams to generate opportunities and provide clients with a seamless service.
  • Provide research with land data as and when required.
  • Keep up to date with the Local Plan process of the relevant local authorities.

Key Skills

Technical

  • MRICS qualified (at least two years PQE)
  • Highly proficient in the relevant software, particularly Argus Developer
  • Good working knowledge of the planning system
  • Experience of promotion and option agreements
  • Excellent knowledge of agency legislation and compliance standards

Other

  • Strong team player: builds relationships and consults with others, quickly establishes trust and credibility
  • High attention to detail
  • Clear and accurate written and verbal communication
  • Strong numerical and analytical skills
  • Good knowledge of relevant UK property markets and a desire to learn regional and local markets if not already known
  • Excellent knowledge of the development sector
  • Established links with housebuilders
  • Confident and personable
  • Highly organized and able to manage own workload
  • Ability to delegate
  • Self-motivated and proactive
  • Demonstrates good awareness of Savills ESG and D&I commitments
  • Looks for opportunities to cross-sell within the office and wider Savills
  • Financial awareness
  • Adaptable/dynamic

Team Overview

The Norwich Development team comprises two directors, one associate, one surveyor, a graduate, and a team administrator. The team prides itself on attention to detail and high-quality output across both transactional and professional business. The successful candidate will need to forge good relationships with the relevant personnel to drive business growth.

The role will work from the Norwich office, with the patch extending across Norfolk and north Suffolk. The Development team is part of the wider Savills organization, which provides a range of services to clients across the UK and internationally.

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