Overview
In this role you will join a busy acquisitions team to secure land in London (zones 2–6) for residential-led, mixed-use projects. You will act as a deal-maker, leveraging contacts to source sites and drive them through planning with internal design and planning teams. The role blends senior land management with development-mentoring aspects as sites progress to production. You’ll work for a well-funded developer delivering high-volume units, with a strong incentive package.
Pay / Benefits
- bonus scheme
- competitive package
- great benefits
- well-funded development
- ambitious project portfolio
Responsibilities
- Identify and acquire land in London zones 2–6 (unconditional, STP and option acquisitions)
- Negotiate and close deals leveraging a broad contact base
- Coordinate with planning and design teams to move sites through planning to production
- Support development management activities where appropriate
- Maintain strong market and competitor awareness to secure competitive advantages
- Manage due diligence and financial appraisal activities to validate deals
Key requirements
- Significant experience in land acquisition/ deal-making in London
- Strong network of contacts within the target zones
- Proven ability to progress sites through planning and into production
- Experience with unconditional, STP and option acquisitions
- Commercially aware with a track record of closing deals
- negotiation
- relationship-building
- proactivity
- land acquisition
- planning liaison
- development management
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