Lendlease is a market leading Australian integrated real estate business with an international investment platform.
We employ our decades-long experience, bold thinking and global expertise to shape cities, delivering innovative, sustainable places and infrastructure for governments, businesses and communities. Our Development business is predominantly focused on the creation of mixed-use precincts that comprise apartments, workplaces and associated leisure and entertainment amenity.
Lendlease is seeking a dynamic Executive Director of Development to drive the strategic and operational success of our Australian Development business in Victoria. Reporting to the CEO of Development, this high-impact role is responsible for delivering financial and non-financial targets, leading major projects, and shaping the future of our development pipeline. As an industry leader and externally facing, you will manage key client and stakeholder relationships across the region.
Your Role:
- Lead the regional teams, ensuring seamless project execution from inception to completion
- Drive strategy, growth, and operational efficiency to maximise profitability and expansion
- Convert pipeline opportunities into successful developments while ensuring compliance with corporate governance
- Own key stakeholder relationships, engaging with government, industry bodies, and partners to position Lendlease as an industry leader
- Monitor market trends and competitor activity to maintain a competitive edge
- Oversee financial performance, driving revenue generation and delivering on P&L targets
- Foster a high-performing, collaborative, and safety-first culture, developing top talent and future leaders
What You Bring:
- Proven leadership in real estate development, with a strong track record of delivering large-scale projects
- Superior people management skills, with a passion to drive performance and enhance culture with the ability to inspire, mentor and build high-performing teams
- Deep understanding of development strategy, financial management, and risk mitigation
- Exceptional stakeholder management and negotiation skills, with experience in government and industry relations
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of Lendlease Development in Australia while making a lasting impact on the built environment.
Ready to lead, innovate, and deliver? Apply now
At Lendlease we offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equitable treatment and equitable opportunity are just the norm. We remain committed to supporting under-represented groups and providing a wide range of inclusion initiatives, so that everyone is supported to thrive.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is reflected in our Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan, our Bronze Award with the Australian Workplace Equality Index by Pride in Diversity, and our generous parental leave policy of 26 weeks to any parent regardless of gender.
Lendlease welcomes applicants regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, people with a disability, sexual orientation, or life stage. If you do not meet all the criteria or require adjustments to proceed with your application, we encourage you to reach out for a further discussion.
What We Do
Together we create value through places where communities thrive.
Every day, people around the world live, work, shop, play or travel via an asset created by Lendlease.
Lendlease is an international company with an Australian heritage, as well as local expertise across the core markets of Australia, Asia, the Americas and Europe.
Very few organisations can build cities from scratch, including the infrastructure to connect people, with skills to design, develop, fund, build and manage, but we can. Our projects span key sectors including development, construction, communities and healthcare development.
We purposefully seek to hire people who share our values and passion to make a positive impact. Whether big or small, we make a difference and all of us have a part to play in our success. Together we make a difference.
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