Acquisition Specialist

**Main Purpose of role**

To secure planning permission and the best possible rights with landlords to deploy a defined group of new and existing telecom sites. To work with the company and Operator London teams to achieve the optimum site solution in terms of time, cost & quality

**Key Responsibilities**

**Delivery**
- To deliver the company's owned acquisition activities across a defined group of sites to achieve the company's & Shareholder targets through effective management of the Acquisition Agents, Solicitors & 3rd party suppliers.
- To be aware of & manage dependencies on the company and Operator regional teams across a defined group of sites through planning, tracking & reporting to ensure our regional acquisition targets are achieved.
- To maintain an accurate acquisition delivery status on a defined group of sites by ensuring that site level forecasts are up to date & in accordance with agreed forecasting standards through the tracking of 3rd party supplier deliverables

**Stakeholder & Relationship**
- Build & maintain effective working relationships with the company and Operator regional teams and the company's Demand, Property & Finance teams to ensure our policy is understood & applied consistently and improve certainty that objectives will be achieved by setting realistic expectations, delivering on commitments & effective communication

**Continuous Improvement**
- Identify areas for improvement & take ownership of specific issues through to resolution to drive improved performance and achieve targets

**Supplier Management**
- Manage 3rd party suppliers to deliver agreed targets on a defined group of sites by creating an environment that drives success & secures business targets through reporting and management of key deliverables

**Risk, Issue & Dependency Management**
- To proactively surface and record all risk, issues & dependencies, subsequently managing their mitigation and resolution or escalating those that cannot be solved

**Landlord Engagement**
- Ensuring that at all times the Operators And third party suppliers perform all duties with Landlords in line with the Landlord engagement policy.
- Landlord Engagement: To adhere at all times to our Landlord Pledge of being professional, open, courteous, respectful and ready to talk, acting with integrity at all times.

**Compliance & Security**
- To support and contribute actively to health and safety, environmental, business continuity and information security arrangements that meets our obligations to our customers.

**Person Specification**
Experience (technical, managerial, industry)

Required
- Considerable acquisition functional knowledge gained from working in a mobile network environment
- Extensive experience of delivering large volumes of sites against agreed targets
- Considerable experience of managing 3rd party suppliers
- Considerable experience of working under pressure in a complex & changing environment.
- Considerable experience in preparation of Heads of Terms and legal contracts.
- Understanding of the New Electronic Communications Code preferred

Education level / Qualifications (professional, vocational)

Required
- GCSE English & Maths

Skills / Knowledge

Required
- Excellent interpersonal skills & ability to manage stakeholders of varying levels and across matrix organisations
- Clear & concise communication skills within the company and externally with 3rd party suppliers & stakeholders
- Strong planning & organisational ability in delivering business results
- Basic skills in Excel

Desired
- Intermediate skills in Excel

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