Land Manager
- Warrington, Cheshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
- Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
- Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
- 2 Volunteering days per annum
- Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
- Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
- Share save and share incentive schemes
- Employee rewards portal with many more benefits…
- Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
- Minimum of Degree standard or with suitable alternative experience
- Experience and demonstrable track record in successful land acquisition, utilising of a range of structures and proposals
- Understands the residential planning environment and has led projects through the planning process
- Excellent geographic knowledge
- Commercially astute and credible in a highly competitive environment
- Skilled in appraising land opportunities
- Organised and methodical, with good attention to detail
- Highly numerate with the ability to undertake residual valuations for land appraisals and undertake comparable sales valuations
- Highly literate able to understand and interpret complex legal documentation
- Able to work under own initiative, having good decision-making skills and a keen sense of responsibility
- Able to operate successfully in a corporate environment
- Persuasive and strong negotiation skills
- Professional manner commensurate with delivering business development and promoting the business
- Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it
- Ideally a member of a professional body, e.g. RICS qualified
- Experience of joint ventures
- Identify and appraise new residential land opportunities for open market sale, private rent and affordable housing in line with the partnerships approach and business plan.
- Develop a detailed knowledge of development opportunities and competitor activity within the region in order to propose acquisition strategies with strong commercial acumen and present development opportunities to senior colleagues for approval.
- Work with colleagues in the development team to formulate and manage offers and co-ordinate early technical investigations required to formulate land bids.
- Work closely with Development and Sales colleagues to seek supporting information where necessary and monitor site progress through to offer acceptance.
- Implement all internal procedures including providing accurate and articulate reports in line with governance/procedural requirements.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with local authorities, national and local agents, landowners and promoters in pursuit of opportunities for the company.
- Represent the business in a professional and credible manner and build excellent working relationships across the sector in order to promote Vistry Group and gain positive exposure for the business.
- Work with internal colleagues to drive the development agenda forward and ensure our offering is competitive and credible.
- Build a pipeline landbank through the acquisition of circa 250 homes per annum based on a strong margin and advantageous deal structure and cashflow.
- Ensure familiarity with the Group’s Health, Safety and Environmental policies.