Land Manager

Role

Role: Land Manager, this role would suit a Land Buyer looking for their next step or an established Land Manager looking for a new and exiting role

Location

Location: Office based in Warrington, covering the Northern Division

Land is our lifeblood, which is why, we are expanding our Land teams across the country to support our growth drive strategy which will see us doubling our sales output.

Our existing Land Teams are doing fantastic work and you can expect to be joining a high-performing team which is motivated, focused, and goal orientated.

About the role

Our Land Managers are critical role in the overall success of the business, and we’ll ensure you have all the tools needed to be successful. You can be expected to be trusted, respected, and supported in your career with us.

Our in-house team of experts, which include Architects, Planners, Technical, Legal, Commercial and Construction teams, enable you to create offers efficiently and effectively, drawing from their wealth of experience and specialist knowledge. Our Colleagues, including Senior Management, are very much land focused and work together towards our aligned goals.

In this a fast-moving and all-encompassing role, you will be responsible for the full life cycle of land buying, including:

• Investigating opportunities through an extensive network of contacts
• Identifying sites directly through your own efforts of targeted marketing
• Desktop research, data analysis and utilising Land Insight
• We believe there is nothing better than seeing something for yourself to appreciate which sites will meet our customer’s needs, so we would want you to visit your target towns in person
• Carrying out site appraisals, creating reports and proposals
• Managing the offer and negotiation process
• As a senior member of the Land team you will also support and guide Land Buyers and Land Coordinators by passing on your knowledge and experience.

Working with your Land Director and wider team to help formulate the land acquisition strategy for the region

Why join Churchill’s Land team?

• Maximise your earning potential with out attractive commission scheme, which rewards you for each site you secure, with “top-ups” for enhanced deals, (all paid upon exchange) in addition to a team bonus scheme
• Competitive basic salary, which is reviewed annually
• Company car or cash for car allowance
• Ongoing investment into your personal development with the opportunity to achieve professional qualifications
• Career progression that is tailored to your goals
• Plus we offer other benefits, which include; 24 days holiday plus a day off for your birthday, Private medical, Group Personal Pension Plan, Life Assurance and Health Screening
• Long service awards
• Colleague land referral bonus scheme
• We are a socially responsible company with our own Charitable Foundation who offer a fund matching programme for Colleagues
• Colleague wellbeing programmes and initiatives, including access to our Employee Assistance Programme

About you

We are looking for an experienced and established Land Manager or a successful Senior Land Buyer ready to take the next step in their career. You will be motivated, ambitious, and proactive with a genuine passion for land acquisition and development.

You’ll have the proven ability to manage the end to end process from site identification and research to contract negotiation and exchange. Your background in the property sector does not need to be within residential, as many of our successful Land Colleagues joined us from commercial, retail and hospitality sectors. We also have Colleagues who moved from Land Agencies, as they were keen to expand their knowledge and career.

There are a range of roles within the Land teams but what everyone here has in common is an unwavering passion for their work, dedication, self-motivation, and a hunger for success.

This is supported by a strong desire and support from the Executive Directors to secure good quality sites for our developments.

We are looking for people who are confident and competent drivers, with a valid UK drivers’ licence as you’ll be spending a large proportion of your time out of the office.

A little more about us

Churchill Retirement Living is the fastest growing company in the UK retirement house building sector. We are privately-owned, family-run and financially robust. We are proud of what we do and of the people we work with; and to turn our ambitious expansion plans into reality, we will be investing c£250m in land within the next 3 years. We have absolute confidence in the UK retirement housing market and are ready to invest further!

We have industry leading margins which makes Churchill a very stable business and competitive in the land market, and we enjoy the benefits of our own funding facility which means we can move quickly to secure any site which fits our criteria.

We are a multi award winning business and in 2020 we were named the ‘Best Medium House Builder’ at the WhatHouse? Awards and we were voted the 3rd ‘Best Company to Work for’ in the Sunday Times Awards, the same year

This is an exciting time for our Churchill Land Colleagues as we have a clear strategy, agile infrastructure, and industry leading planning support.

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Join the Churchill family and be part of an ambitious and successful business who value and appreciate their people. Apply today!

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