Strategic Land Manager

The Role

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Strategic Land Manager to join our Land team based in Warrington. The purpose of the role is to identify and procure new strategic land opportunities, leading on the planning promotion of our strategic land portfolio through the development frameworks until allocation or outline consent. You will be involved through to final price negotiation and completion.

What you’ll do:

• Identifying / negotiating / securing land
• Planning promotion of the land through the development frameworks to allocation or planning consent
• Lead the day to day promotion of our strategic land portfolio
• Ownership of your land acquisition process fully from identification, preparation, negotiation and progression of offers, through to contracts and completion
• Build and develop strong relationships with key stakeholders both internal and external; including land owners, agents, consultants, local authorities, legal advisers and competitors
• Planning assessments, saturation surveys and management of external consultants including budgets
• Market research and selling prices and liaison with our sales team
• Work closely with our technical, estimating teams to prepare accurate financials and ensure the land is commercially deliverable
• Contract and final price negotiation
• Preparation of reports / land packs for meetings
• Chairing meetings, preparing agendas and minutes for internal and external meetings
• Participating in corporate entertaining / attending events on behalf of the company

 Have you got what it takes:

• Are you a team player
• self-motivated and have a successful track record of securing option agreements and planning promotion achieved within a similar environment
• academic and / or professional qualifications.
• experienced and familiar with all aspects of strategic land acquisition and planning promotion do you have a network of landowners and agents and be capable of bringing quality sites to the table
• highly organised, familiar with co-ordinating multiple projects simultaneously and thrive on working to deadlines

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary / Competitive Car Allowance / 25 Days Holidays / Pension Scheme / Free Parking / Private Health Care / Professional Development & Training Opportunities/ Free Wellbeing Initiatives such as eye care vouchers, occupational health, employee assistance programme / Ministry of Fun / Flexible Working/ Online Retailer Discounts (Seddon SmartSpending)

Application with full CV, before closing date of September 20, 2024 to [email protected] quoting job reference - DJM24