Senior Land Manager

Work as part of a fast paced, entrepreneurial team where decisions and deals can be made quickly and competitively. 

Shanly Homes - the privately-owned, award-winning regional housebuilder - is looking for a Senior Land Manager to source and acquire land and development opportunities across Bucks, Berks, and North London.

About the role

Reporting straight to the Regional Managing Director you will:

• Conduct land appraisals in line with our robust system to determine the valuation of potential development land
• Establish and build effective working relationships with local authorities, agents, landowners and other developers to keep up to date on current and future market opportunities
• Successfully negotiate and manage offers for land in line with regional budgets
• Prepare site profitability statements, putting together development programmes, sales market research and acquisition build budgets
• Ensure the successful delivery of planning applications and decisions by liaising with the planning team and external consultants
• Work collaboratively with the wider teams to enable a smooth transition once a site has been secured.

 Skills and experience

• Strong experience in sourcing and managing own land acquisition leads and negotiations within the residential property sector
• Demonstratable knowledge and application of current planning and government legislation
• Adept, confident and clear communicator
• Proven negotiation skills
• Deal driven
• Good local knowledge of the area.

What we offer in return

• Friendly, supportive team and a welcoming culture.
• Impressive, modern office space providing an enjoyable space to work from.
• Located in beautiful Beaconsfield Old Town, close to many cafés, restaurants and a Tesco Express.
• Easy to commute to with great road connections being just off the M40 and within a 10 minutes' walk to Beaconsfield train station.
• A privately-owned business with all the benefits of a financially strong company that has stood the test of time.
• Competitive salary and car allowance.
• Discretionary land bonus scheme.
• Annual leave starting at 25 days to a max of 30 days.
• BUPA cover.
• Enhanced pension scheme through salary exchange.
• Free life assurance.
• Many wellbeing benefits; free onsite fitness and yoga classes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme and access to an Employee Assistance Programme.
• Discount scheme with savings across a range of sectors including retail, travel, entertainment, etc.
• Social events throughout the year.

Shanly Group is an equal opportunities employer.

RECRUITMENT AGENCY POLICY

We will always try to fill our roles directly where we can.

When we need some extra help, we work with selected recruitment agencies who we have agreed fees and terms and conditions in place with. A member of our HR team will directly engage with the recruitment agency, discussing the role requirements and process fully. Candidates should only be put forward to a member of our HR team following this specific instruction.

We will not pay any fee to agencies who submit a speculative and unsolicited CV to any of our employees and without the agency having received a specific instruction from the HR team. In this instance, we reserve the right to contact the candidate directly without incurring any agency fee.

Speculative or unsolicited candidate and/or CV submission to Shanly Homes Limited, Sorbon Estates Limited and all associated, subsidiary, holding, related or connected companies will be seen as evidence of full acceptance of this policy.