Job Description
CR3 are currently representing a growing Medium sized developer who are seeking an Land Director to work in HQ that borders Surrey/Berkshire.
This position would suit a Land Manager/Senior Land Manager from a developer background looking to step into a Land Director role and build a team around them in the near future.
Benefits:
- Up to £120K Salary
- Bonus
- Fuel Card
- Pension Scheme
- Private Healthcare
- 25 days holiday (8 Bank Holidays)
- Xmas Shutdown
- 8:30am – 5;30pm (Monday – Friday)
Duties of the Land Director:
- Identify suitable land opportunities on and off market for immediate opportunities, however also longer-term land with planning potential for liaison with the Strategic Land department
- Present to landowners and agents on a formal and informal basis
- Negotiate legal agreements with lawyers and third parties
- Procure technical, legal and development information to instruct internal and external parties to prepare offers
- Prepare and submit Land Approval Packs and obtain authority to acquire sites in line with Company protocols
- Business development to promote the Company in the residential and property development sector
Land Director requirements:
- Land Manager or Senior land manager ready to make the step up.
- Currently working for either a national residential developer or high profile investor or agency.
- Exemplary contact base of land agents and land owners in Berkshire & Surrey
- Detailed understanding of the planning application and appeals process.
- A strong network of contacts in the land agency world.
- Determined, hungry and ambitious.
- Expected to be educated to a minimum of Degree standard (on a relevant course) or with suitable alternative experience
- Computer literate and able to use Excel, Word and PowerPoint to a good standard.
- Professional manner commensurate with delivering business development and promoting the Company
- Highly literate able to understand and interpret complex legal documentation
- Highly numerate with the ability to undertake residual valuations for land appraisals, undertake comparable sales valuations and provided sensitivity analysis
- Demonstrable track record of buying land
- A good understanding of legal obligations
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of planning authorities
- In depth understanding of budget management
- Natural born deal maker doing 3-4 land deals a year consistently.