Job Description
Job description
We are seeking an Associate to join our successful and highly regarded Developers team in one of our Bristol, Exeter or Plymouth offices. We actively endorse and support hybrid working based on what is best for the team, the key stakeholders, and the individual.This is a superb opportunity for an ambitious and motivated individual to play a key role in the delivery of our growth strategy for the Developer sector and broader specialist areas. We are keen to receive applications from individuals who share this vision and whose mindset will bring spirit, drive, and an innovative spark to the role.What you’ll doOur dedicated Developer team represents housebuilders, commercial developers, registered providers, and land promoters, boasting an impressive track record in large-scale development, redevelopment, and regeneration projects and you will play an active role in the continued success and growth of the team.From the outset, you’ll enjoy a perfect balance of independence and support. You’ll confidently handle your own matters while benefiting from the guidance and supervision of senior colleagues, ensuring continuous skill and knowledge development. In return for your commitment and motivation, we offer excellent career development opportunities, combining structured and flexible learning options tailored to your progression. Through our Business Skills Academy, you’ll receive comprehensive support to enhance your confidence, networking, and client-facing skills, alongside your technical expertise. Together, we’ll create an environment where you can flourish and achieve your long-term career ambitions.If you’re passionate about business development, both for the team and the firm, we’ll actively support and encourage your involvement in profile-building and networking activities from the start, as we do with all our lawyers. We’re dedicated to partnering with clients to understand their goals and provide the support they need, fostering long-lasting and rewarding relationships. We’ll help you deepen your commercial understanding of clients’ contexts through relevant insights and shared expertise, enabling you to offer practical advice at the right time, on an ongoing basis.What we’re looking forWith your recent experience in a reputable Real Estate team, you are poised to take the next significant step in your career, enhancing your profile and forging lasting client connections. We seek a self-motivated individual with the enthusiasm and commitment to share knowledge and build capacity across our team. Experience with development work would be highly desirable but not essential.In return for your dedication and focus, we offer genuine opportunities to fast-track your career within a team renowned for developing and advancing its lawyers. We proudly operate without glass ceilings, ensuring your career progression is based entirely on merit and under your control. Moreover, the quality of work you will access is not limited by location; if you are the best fit for the client, you will work with them.Our offer to youIn return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal, as well as professional, development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, along with 28 days’ annual leave (plus a day in your birthday month), private medical insurance (eligibility applies) and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.For further details of our benefits packages, please visit the link attached – Our benefits | Foot AnsteySuccessful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, or anything else, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team: [email protected] Foot Anstey?As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of this we think our culture and environment sets us apart.Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across seven key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers, Private Wealth and Charities. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from nine locations: Bristol, Southampton, Exeter, Plymouth, Truro, Taunton and London, as well as a ‘hub’ bases in Manchester, Guildford and Oxford.Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.Foot Anstey. Seriously Ambitious.
We are seeking an Associate to join our successful and highly regarded Developers team in one of our Bristol, Exeter or Plymouth offices. We actively endorse and support hybrid working based on what is best for the team, the key stakeholders, and the individual.This is a superb opportunity for an ambitious and motivated individual to play a key role in the delivery of our growth strategy for the Developer sector and broader specialist areas. We are keen to receive applications from individuals who share this vision and whose mindset will bring spirit, drive, and an innovative spark to the role.What you’ll doOur dedicated Developer team represents housebuilders, commercial developers, registered providers, and land promoters, boasting an impressive track record in large-scale development, redevelopment, and regeneration projects and you will play an active role in the continued success and growth of the team.From the outset, you’ll enjoy a perfect balance of independence and support. You’ll confidently handle your own matters while benefiting from the guidance and supervision of senior colleagues, ensuring continuous skill and knowledge development. In return for your commitment and motivation, we offer excellent career development opportunities, combining structured and flexible learning options tailored to your progression. Through our Business Skills Academy, you’ll receive comprehensive support to enhance your confidence, networking, and client-facing skills, alongside your technical expertise. Together, we’ll create an environment where you can flourish and achieve your long-term career ambitions.If you’re passionate about business development, both for the team and the firm, we’ll actively support and encourage your involvement in profile-building and networking activities from the start, as we do with all our lawyers. We’re dedicated to partnering with clients to understand their goals and provide the support they need, fostering long-lasting and rewarding relationships. We’ll help you deepen your commercial understanding of clients’ contexts through relevant insights and shared expertise, enabling you to offer practical advice at the right time, on an ongoing basis.What we’re looking forWith your recent experience in a reputable Real Estate team, you are poised to take the next significant step in your career, enhancing your profile and forging lasting client connections. We seek a self-motivated individual with the enthusiasm and commitment to share knowledge and build capacity across our team. Experience with development work would be highly desirable but not essential.In return for your dedication and focus, we offer genuine opportunities to fast-track your career within a team renowned for developing and advancing its lawyers. We proudly operate without glass ceilings, ensuring your career progression is based entirely on merit and under your control. Moreover, the quality of work you will access is not limited by location; if you are the best fit for the client, you will work with them.Our offer to youIn return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal, as well as professional, development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, along with 28 days’ annual leave (plus a day in your birthday month), private medical insurance (eligibility applies) and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.For further details of our benefits packages, please visit the link attached – Our benefits | Foot AnsteySuccessful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, or anything else, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team: [email protected] Foot Anstey?As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of this we think our culture and environment sets us apart.Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across seven key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers, Private Wealth and Charities. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from nine locations: Bristol, Southampton, Exeter, Plymouth, Truro, Taunton and London, as well as a ‘hub’ bases in Manchester, Guildford and Oxford.Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.Foot Anstey. Seriously Ambitious.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Associate | Developer position is now open for candidates interested in the Software Developer Jobs sector. This role in Exeter offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Software Developer Jobs is a plus.
