Senior Site Developer

About the job

Realising living spaces for future generations.

HIAG is a leading real estate company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. HIAG's business model encompasses the entire value chain of real estate: portfolio/asset management, site development, and transaction management. We invest in residential, commercial, and industrial spaces at attractive locations in German-speaking and Western Switzerland, placing great emphasis on sustainability. Together, we create holistic living spaces of the future for people and businesses on our sites. We combine the strengths of a family business with the financial power of a publicly listed group. Our corporate culture is characterised by trust, transparency, and dialogue. We communicate on equal terms and maintain a respectful approach.

Your tasks

In this demanding role, you are responsible for the strategic development of selected sites from the owner’s perspective. Your focus is on managing complex spatial planning procedures, especially rezoning as well as neighbourhood and design plans. In doing so, you represent HIAG’s interests vis-à-vis authorities, political bodies, and other stakeholders and conduct complex negotiations.

At the same time, you develop economically viable usage concepts and business cases, unlock market potentials, and bring suitable users and tenants to our sites.

• Initiate, manage, and take responsibility for complex rezoning, neighbourhood, and design plan procedures as well as represent owner interests vis-à-vis authorities, political bodies, and other stakeholders
• Develop and enforce usage and site strategies considering market needs and economic objectives
• Identify and assess site potentials, usage possibilities, and market opportunities as well as prepare feasibility studies, profitability analyses, and business cases
• Actively maintain and utilise a broad network to attract and settle potential users and tenants
• Owner-side management of demanding project developments in the early SIA phases 1–3 and professional leadership of external planning teams
• Ensure qualitative, timely, and economic development goals and participate in competitions, tenders, and further project optimisation
• Actively shape political and planning decision-making processes and conduct demanding negotiations to secure HIAG’s development interests
• Prepare and coordinate project and execution budgets for the responsible internal committees
• Support Acquisitions & Sales as well as Marketing in assessing development and acquisition potentials
• Support Asset Management and Marketing in positioning, letting, and further developing the sites
• Handle public relations and represent projects to the public, media, and other stakeholders

Your profile

You are an entrepreneurial-minded individual with a good understanding of spatial planning, political acumen, and a strong sense of market and user needs. You know how to comprehend complex development processes, unite different interests, and assert the concerns of ownership with conviction and negotiation skills.

You hold a degree in architecture, urban planning, or a comparable field (ETH/FH) and have at least ten years of relevant professional experience in site or real estate development.

What you bring professionally and personally:

• Proven experience in managing and successfully implementing rezoning, neighbourhood, and design plan procedures
• Sound knowledge of Swiss spatial planning and approval procedures as well as experience dealing with municipal and cantonal authorities
• Confidence and experience in direct exchange with political bodies, authority representatives, and decision-makers
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to consistently represent owner interests even in demanding political and planning contexts
• Entrepreneurial thinking and solid knowledge in assessing usage potentials, profitability, and real estate business cases
• An established network in the real estate industry, with authorities and political decision-makers, and ideally with potential users and tenants
• Experience in identifying, approaching, and acquiring users and tenants as well as a strong understanding of marketing and market positioning
• Architectural and planning understanding as well as the ability to professionally lead external planning teams and advance demanding project developments
• High initiative, assertiveness, and diplomatic skills. You present convincingly, communicate appropriately for the audience, and navigate confidently at different decision-making levels
• Fluent German skills and good English skills

Our offer

• Interesting & varied area of responsibility
• Motivated, well-coordinated, and helpful team
• Organisation with a flat hierarchy and short decision-making paths
• Independent work and freedom
• Exclusively company-owned sites
• An exciting and sustainably operating environment
• Room for personal and professional development
• Attractive employment conditions and generous training opportunities

Your workplace

• Zurich, directly at the main station
• Travel activity in German-speaking Switzerland

We look forward to receiving your application.