Project Manager Urban Development Reitse Campus Kenniskwartier

Project overview

For the municipality of Tilburg, YER is looking for a Project Manager Urban Development Reitse Campus Kenniskwartier

The position

Are you an experienced project manager who thrives on assignments where social impact, adding value, and realizing beautiful spatial projects are central? Do you have experience working in an environment where residents, developers, housing corporations, and the municipality truly collaborate to further develop areas? Then the role of Project Manager Urban Development offers all the ingredients for a new challenge.

You will work area-specifically on various urban development projects within the municipality, with the Kenniskwartier being an important and prominent assignment for you. In the coming years, you will primarily be active in this area, but you will also contribute to other area developments and spatial projects.

What will you do?

The development of the Reitse Campus is a prominent area development within the Kenniskwartier in Tilburg West. Tilburg West is on the eve of a major transformation. In the Kenniskwartier, a designated National large-scale housing development area and part of the NPLV area Tilburg North-West, we are realizing over 7,500 new homes and 90,000 m² of social and economic functions. We also want to improve the living environment and stimulate sustainable mobility.

To achieve our ambitions, we work together with a large number of parties such as developers, landowners, educational institutions, local residents, and the national government.

In the coming years, we will develop the Reitse Campus into a vibrant residential and work area with over 2,000 predominantly affordable homes. As a connection between Tilburg station and the university campus, a highly urban district aimed at young professionals will be created. The public space will be car-light, and parking will be in parking hubs. We are developing the area in phases, together with residents, entrepreneurs, and other partners in Tilburg West.

The preliminary design urban plan (VOSP) and the construction and image quality plan have been drawn up, agreements with developers, landowners, and retailers are being finalized, and planning procedures are in preparation. The complexity of the Reitse Campus area development is high due to the number and diversity of interests (local residents, educational institutions, university, commercial developers, housing corporation, politics). We are looking for a project manager who, together with the core team and fellow project manager(s), will steer the development of the Reitse Campus.

Responsibilities

Results:

About the company

Tilburg is growing, flourishing, and buzzing! It is the city where urban development happens. With high-profile area developments such as the Spoorzone, Stappegoor, Oostflank, and Kenniskwartier, Tilburg is a dynamic and innovative place to live and work. We have ambitious and beautiful plans in both the city and the surrounding villages. Are you an experienced project manager with a passion for urban development? Seize the opportunity now to lead the realization of the city's ambitions.

You will work in the Program, Project, and Interim Management department. Here, colleagues work daily on various administrative tasks and projects within the Municipality of Tilburg. Project-based work is central, and we use the Project-Based Creation methodology.

Within the Kenniskwartier area development, you will work with the Kenniskwartier Program Manager, other project managers, real estate strategists, financial economists, planning lawyers, environmental managers, a program controller, and project support staff on realizing ambitions. You will also maintain close contact with the approximately 60 other dedicated colleagues working in the Urban Development team on area developments such as Spoorzone, Stappegoor, Oostflank, or the City Center.

You will join a professional and collegial team where knowledge sharing is a given. We help each other move forward, celebrate successes together, and actively invest in good mutual cooperation.

What you bring

As a senior project manager, you are skilled in devising various scenarios, determining project strategy, finding innovative solutions, are strong in organizing tasks, and possess solid leadership qualities. You are adept at navigating complex power dynamics, balancing conflicting interests, and conducting decisive negotiations. You have extensive experience working within politically and administratively sensitive area developments. Economically, socially, and societally engaged action is in your DNA.

Furthermore, you are flexible in switching between various levels of collaboration, capable of understanding and effectively responding to the interests of different parties, such as residents, corporations, interest groups, developers, and administrators. Actively participating in resident meetings and negotiating with developers does not deter you; you are self-assured and strive for successful outcomes in a results-oriented, decisive, and proactive manner. You communicate clearly, work results-oriented, and maintain an overview in complex processes.

Additionally, you bring:

Offer

You will work with a team of enthusiastic colleagues in the spatial domain and can count on a good work-life balance. We also reward your commitment and performance with an attractive salary and appealing extras. Our employment conditions at a glance:

• You will lead a multidisciplinary project team and steer the coherence and progress of the Reitse Campus area development, including the parking hubs, plinth strategy, and the space under the viaduct of the Ringbaan West.
• You will further develop the development and real estate strategy for the Reitse Campus and translate it into preliminary agreements and tenders. In doing so, you will consult with owners and developers and strengthen collaboration within the planning area.
• As a contractor, you will manage your projects and actively liaise with administrative and governmental clients. You will monitor the course, results, planning, and scope, and carefully prepare decision-making.
• Leading projects where calculations, drawings, and making preliminary (settlement) agreements (including cost recovery) with current owners go hand in hand based on the SP/BBKP and business case. You will closely monitor planning, process, and results, and identify bottlenecks and solutions in a timely manner. You will liaunt with the quality team and the Environmental Committee where necessary.
• You will play an active role in drafting project contracts, designing project structures, utilizing internal and external capacity, and creating workable conditions. You will adhere to the financial frameworks of the Reitse Campus.
• You will organize collaboration with residents, educational institutions, developers, entrepreneurs, housing corporations, and other stakeholders. You will keep an eye on the coherence of the total assignment within the Reitse Campus and the broader Kenniskwartier.
• Co-drafting and elaborating the plinth strategy, including program definition, to be secured in the preliminary agreements with developers.
• Elaborated development strategy per sub-project, per developer.
• Concluding preliminary agreements with developers, educational institutions, and the corporation.
• Reaching agreements (including negotiations) with KPN regarding the relocation of existing KPN facilities and the caravan site.
• Definition of parking requirements and underground infrastructure for the mobility and energy transition.
• Contributing to decisions on football field scenarios.
• Steering the elaboration of the sketch design to the preliminary design of the Public Space.
• Contracting market parties for the development and realization of the municipal locations within the Reitse Campus based on a (European) tender.
• Final Urban Design of the Reitse Campus, including a sound business case.
• Bachelor's or Master's work and thinking level, built through, among other things, education in the spatial domain;
• You are analytically strong, capable of unraveling complex issues, organizing them, and result-orientedly structuring them into manageable (sub)tasks;
• Demonstrably good written and communication skills;
• Extensive experience as a spatial project manager for comparable complex assignments;
• Experience working in a political-administrative context;
• You are available for at least 28 hours. (preference: 32 to 36 hours per week).
• Competitive fixed salary, depending on knowledge and experience;
• 25 vacation days and 8.33% holiday allowance;
• 7.55% 13th-month payment;
• Travel expenses reimbursement or lease car;
• Good pension scheme;
• Overtime arrangement: payment in salary or time for time;
• The above applies to collaboration on contract; ZZP is also possible, of course;
• Continuous challenging assignments in the spatial domain;
• Intensive and personal guidance;
• Opportunity to participate in a personal coaching program;
• Inspiring masterclasses.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Tilburg, NL
• Languages: Dutch