Role overview
- ID: 2024-5990
- Entity: Vistry
- Region: Vistry West Yorkshire
- Department: Land & Planning
- Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
- Job Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
- Date Posted: 29.07.2024
We have an exciting opportunity for a Land Manager to join our team within Vistry West Yorkshire, at our Wakefield office. As our Land Manager, you will identify, appraise and submit offers to acquire land opportunities to meet business requirements, including growth plans and margin improvement as well as enhance reputation in the marketplace. The Land Manager is a largely self-sufficient role, with the ability to source land opportunities and instruct consultants/development team regarding the legal, planning, development and commercial constraints of any proposal.
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Let's cut to the chase, what's in it for you...
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Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
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Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
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Agile working possible (dependent on role)
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Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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Private Healthcare
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Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
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Competitive contributory pension scheme
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Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
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Share incentive schemes
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Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
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In return, what we would like from you...
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Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
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Minimum of Degree standard or with suitable alternative experience
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Experience and demonstrable track record in successful land acquisition, utilising of a range of structures and proposals
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Understands the residential planning environment and has led projects through the planning process
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Excellent geographic knowledge
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Commercially astute and credible in a highly competitive environment
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Skilled in appraising land opportunities
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Organised and methodical, with good attention to detail
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Highly numerate with the ability to undertake residual valuations for land appraisals and undertake comparable sales valuations
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Highly literate able to understand and interpret complex legal documentation
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Able to work under own initiative, having good decision-making skills and a keen sense of responsibility
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Able to operate successfully in a corporate environment
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Persuasive and strong negotiation skills
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Professional manner commensurate with delivering business development and promoting the business
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Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it
Desirable...
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Ideally a member of a professional body e.g. RICS qualified
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More about the Land Manager role...
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Identify and appraise new residential land opportunities for open market sale, private rent and affordable housing in line with the partnerships approach and business plan.
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Develop a detailed knowledge of development opportunities and competitor activity within the region in order to propose acquisition strategies with strong commercial acumen and present development opportunities to senior colleagues for approval.
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Work with colleagues in the development team to formulate and manage offers and co-ordinate early technical investigations required to formulate land bids.
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Work closely with Development and Sales colleagues to seek supporting information where necessary and monitor site progress through to offer acceptance.
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Implement all internal procedures including providing accurate and articulate reports in line with governance/procedural requirements.
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Establish and maintain effective working relationships with local authorities, national and local agents, landowners and promoters in pursuit of opportunities for the company.
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Represent the business in a professional and credible manner and build excellent working relationships across the sector in order to promote Vistry Partnerships and gain positive exposure for the business.
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Work with internal colleagues to drive the development agenda forward and ensure our offering is competitive and credible.
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Build a pipeline landbank through the acquisition of circa 250 homes per annum based on a strong margin and advantageous deal structure and cashflow.
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Ensure familiarity with the Group's Health, Safety and Environmental policies.
Finally, let's tell you a bit more about us...
We're Vistry Group, the UK's leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they're needed most.
You're probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there's nowhere better to build your career. We're proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.
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Benefits
Agile Working
Offers a flexible way of working.
Annual Leave
Enjoy 28 days' holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.
Pension with Legal & General
Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.
Volunteer Days
With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.
Why Vistry
Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.