Senior Land Manager

Salary: £42,000 per year

• Position: Senior Land Manager – South West
• Reporting to: Land Director
• Region: South West region covering Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
• Working arrangements: 3 days from home and 2 days working from one of two regional South West offices

Senior Land Manager – What you’ll be doing?

This team is responsible for identifying and sourcing the best locations for new developments. It’s fast moving and, in today’s climate, extremely competitive and commercial in its focus.

While we need to be commercial and competitive in bidding for sought after land, we also need to be imaginative in identifying other possibilities – such as land that currently doesn’t have planning permission. It’s a complex area of our work, and one that’s under intense commercial scrutiny and pressure. It’s also the life of our business, which makes this team’s work even more vital and far-reaching. Entrepreneurial and imaginative in your thinking, you’ll need to be a good assessor of risks, and an even better relationship builder.

Reporting to the Land Director, to contribute to the overall success of the Division, through supporting the Land Director in securing an adequate land bank to meet Land targets, taking into account all business variables and in the effective management of the Land operation.

Senior Land Manager – You will be expected to:

• Identify potential development opportunities through a range of methods, e.g., thorough examination of statutory development plans, housing land audits, potential change of uses, liaising with agents and utilising an extensive contact base
• Support the Land Managers/Buyers in managing the acquisition of sites, and directly manage a number of acquisitions from identification, diligence, offer, contract, purchase, planning, through to pre-start on the sites acquired
• Liaise with relevant divisional departments, e.g., Sales/Technical, and external consultants if required, throughout the land appraisal and bid process, and during planning application
• Monitor the Division’s land database including site registration, development plans and offers submitted
• Maintain and expand the Division’s key contact base, e.g., land agents, land owners
• Assist the Development Director on major projects and with other relevant duties as required
• Support the Land Director in ensuring that the Land team are fully resourced and well-directed, with clear guidelines to their own job responsibilities, and are provided with full support in achieving these, in terms of communication, training and development, and the organisation of the department’s workload
• Undertake community engagements as necessary
• Promote and act in accordance with Group values, systems, policies and procedures

Senior Land Manager – What about the benefits package?

As part of working for us and specifically for this role we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus scheme
• Car allowance
• 30 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
• £500 Flexible benefits
• Company discount retail portal
• Generous pension scheme
• Life Assurance benefit scheme
• Holiday trading scheme (Buy or sell up to a week’s annual leave)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Professional subscriptions