Managing Director

Welcome from L&Q and the Greater London Authority

Thank you for your interest in the role of Managing Director, BRL.

Barking Riverside is one of Europe’s largest and most exciting residential developments, providing East London with thousands of new homes.

The vision for Barking Riverside is to deliver up to 20,000 vitally needed new homes, creating a community of up to 50,000 Londoners. The site comprises of 443 acres – an area larger than Hyde Park – on a brownfield site formerly occupied by the historic 1920’s Barking Power Station. Connected to central London via the recently extended Suffragette Line and river bus services, Barking Riverside has already provided 2,900 new homes..

Barking Riverside is already home to a diverse, vibrant and active community of over 6,000 residents. Existing amenities include five schools, one of which is an Ofsted Outstanding secondary school; two community hubs; cycling and walking routes; open spaces and play parks; state-of-the-art recycling and waste management facilities; and a rolling calendar of social activities, including resident-led events and festivals. This is an exciting time to join us as we move into the next stage of delivery at Barking Riverside – having recently submitted one of the UK’s largest planning applications that seeks to increase the overall size of Barking Riverside to up to 20,000 homes. This would make Barking Riverside London’s largest development in single ownership.

We need a passionate and committed leader to be our new Managing Director; someone who can drive this significant project through to completion and supports us to put people and relationships at the heart of everything we do. You’ll also need to be commercially focused, able to demonstrate political and financial acumen and bring a resilient and determined approach to tackling the challenges that come with such a large-scale development. This is an opportunity like no other in the sector.

If you have a clear vision, as well as the ambition needed to deliver this thriving new community, we’d like to hear more about you.

Thank you again for your interest.