Strategic Land and Planning Manager

2 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Places Development Full time

We are Places for People Developments, We create and manage thriving communities that our customers are proud to call home and are sustainable economically, socially, and environmentally. Over 500,000 people live in our homes and 300,000 people visit our leisure centres every week.
We own or manage more than 219,000 homes, operate over 100 leisure facilities, employ over 9,000 colleagues, have assets of £4.8bn, and will deliver circa 6,000 affordable homes over the next 10 years through our partnership with Homes England. When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community.

**More about your role**

As our Strategic Land and Planning Manager, you will be an integral part of our Development Team, supporting our Group Strategic Land Director in the delivery of the Groups growth plans. The Strategic land team operates independently across the Groups regions but will work closely with them to deliver opportunities that further their growth ambitions. This is a unique opportunity to help shape a new business that will play an important part in the growth plans of Places for People.

You will need to pro-actively source, manage and deliver suitable land opportunities for potential developments, effectively evaluating and negotiating to ensure feasibility and profitability as well as securing a pipeline of strategic land opportunities.

You will need to:

- Identify, appraise, acquire, promote, and deliver strategic long term residential development projects focused on delivering a range of housing tenures in-line with the Group's financial criteria and strategic requirements.
- Have a good understanding of government planning policy, the Local Plan process and housing land supply issues
- Negotiate with landowners and settle financial terms. Lead on legal negotiations to acquire a suitable interest in sites through option agreements and joint ventures
- Appoint and manage a consultant team to achieve targets and forecasts
- Manage the relationships with internal departments and report where necessary

**More about you**

We are looking for someone with a collaborative nature, someone who enjoys working with a team using the skills and expertise of colleagues to deliver projects. You will also need strong IT skills and be an assured presenter to senior stakeholders, able to quickly appraise Directors of the progress of sites.
For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

**The benefits**

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why We offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:

- Annual bonus
- Car or Car allowance
- Excellent holiday pay and sick pay
- Pension with matched contributions
- Training and the opportunity to gain both knowledge and experience from your manager/mentor

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