Acquisition Manager

United Living is a leading infrastructure, construction, and property services company in the UK. We help our customers and the communities they serve benefit from resilient infrastructure, affordable homes, and improved living spaces that are fit for the future. Our mission is to be the partner and employer of choice for designing, building, maintaining, and connecting communities and critical infrastructure, to create a more sustainable and inclusive society.

United Living Group is comprised of four complementary businesses, all dedicated to realising our vision of creating a connected, sustainable future:

• Property Services – We revitalise homes and communities through the regeneration of living spaces, breathing new life into neighbourhoods. From delivering large programmes of work for social housing providers, to ensuring the highest building safety standards, we provide a range of services for public sector clients.
• Infrastructure Services – Our team of infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical energy and water infrastructure, for the UK's largest network owners and operators. The work we do supports the requirement for effective solutions to address the UK's decarbonisation goals, and our processes minimise environmental and carbon impacts, whilst ensuring the safe and reliable operation of assets.
• New Homes – As experienced and specialist new build housing contractors, we create homes and regenerate areas with communities in mind. We work collaboratively with registered partners, local authorities, and private developers to provide high quality, energy efficient, and sustainable homes for people to live and grow.
• Connected – We connect people through fixed-line and wireless telecom infrastructure, ensuring seamless communication and access to information for all. At United Living, we have one of the largest specialist in-house teams for project management, acquisition, design, construction, and maintenance in the UK.

United Living Connected are searching for an enthusiastic and hard-working individual to join our team as an Acquisition Manager. The successful applicant will work closely with other members of the Acquisition & Planning team for the delivery of new telecom sites, NTQ site replacements or upgrades on existing sites.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Reporting on progress to client/internal key stakeholders
• Management and guidance of Surveyors and Coordinators
• Ownership of end to end Acquisition process including data management
• New site or NTQ replacement search and identification, including production of option Reports
• Reading and identification of rights from existing site legal documentation for proposed site upgrades
• Land ownership checks
• Attendance of MSV surveys or site visits (where required)
• Negotiate and secure Customer approval of consensual HoTs
• Deal with Landlord Agents & other professional representatives
• Obtain other required third-party consents/wayleaves
• Instruction and Management of solicitors through to legal agreement
• Land valuation appraisals
• Completion of Legal Report Form (detailing the negotiations held and offers made) for any Non-Consensual process (under new ECC legislation)
• Provision of support for the Non-Consensual process
• Upkeep of internal accurate site by site records and commentary
• Attendance on Customer site by site review meetings (where required)
• Document submission to client systems including Acquisition HOP requirements

Essential Requirements:

• Experience of working within Telecoms projects
• Experience of new ECC Agreement or Renewal projects and as a minimum, a working understanding of the non-consensual process
• Experience or working understanding of Land Valuations
• A professional working knowledge of the Town and Country Planning System
• Good IT skills, particularly Word and Excel and able to demonstrate past experience of using Customer project management and workflow tools
• Excellent Communication and Negotiation skills
• Be a good problem solver who is proactive and innovative
• Be able to develop and promote a best-in-class knowledge base and service
• Right to work in UK and valid UK Driving Licence

Desirable Requirements:

• Working towards or already a member of RICS