Strategic Land Manager - £70k basic + benefits + bonus

Caralex Recruitment Limited are working with a housebuilder who are looking to appoint a Strategic Land Manager. The role is to identify, appraise and buy strategic greenfield land, either outright or under option. Then, over the next few years, the land is worked upon with the view to obtain planning and / or to sell the land onto a rival housebuilding company for profit. The patch is the Northern Home Counties to include Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire.  You will have either worked on strategic land purchases as a Land Manager or as a Town Planner. You will understand local plans and be able to make approaches to and then negotiate with land owners and their agents.  The role will be broad, covering both the land identification, purchase, optimising it into a viable housing development site, gaining planning, and then the sale of some of the land to a housebuilder. It is important to be able to work with a variety of people, for example, networking to build and maintain land industry contacts, working professionally with external consultants such as solicitors and planning consultants, as well as the internal team members