Land Acquisition Manager

2 days ago

London, United Kingdom Climate17 Full time

Our client is a well backed solar and battery storage developer with a small team based in the UK, backed by a large investment fund and is responsible for originating and developing up to 500MW of solar projects in the UK, year on year.
With a rapidly growing team and a current development pipeline, they are looking for a Land Acquisition Manager to expand their Origination and Development team and to help identifying and securing leads suitable for large scale Solar PV, Battery Storage andHydrogen projects in England and Wales.

**Responsibilities**:

- Identifying, securing and qualifying new opportunities for large scale Solar PV, Battery Storage and Hydrogen projects
- Liaising with the Grid team to identify target areas
- Forging relationships with landowners, land agents and Introducers to release potential opportunities exclusively to the company
- Negotiating option/lease/cable & access easement/licence heads of terms with landowners
- Production of funder progress reports
- Weekly team meeting (office/remote)
- Logging and tracking of leads data on company's CRM

**Requirements**:

- Three years' experience in the energy or real estate industry with a land focus
- Experience in renewables or battery storage - green field projects
- Experience in face-to-face lead generation/sales
- Experience in securing land rights on targeted land (lease, option, licence, easement)
- An understanding of Planning Policy and how this may impact identified development opportunities
- Highly self-motivated with an ability to work autonomously and meet individual targets
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to approach landowners as a 'cold' lead
- Very well organised both in time management and record keeping, and comfortable in generating and handling multiple leads at any one time
- Competent in using Microsoft Suite and Google Earth (further training will be provided on more specific land searching tools)
- Driven, with desire to succeed
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
- Appropriate knowledge of all relevant regulatory and legal requirements applicable to the position
- UK driving licence

**Nice-to-have**:

- An existing network of relevant contacts preferable
- An existing book of landowner contacts preferable
- An understanding in Distribution/Transmission Networks preferable but not essential

**About Us**
Climate17 is a purpose-led, international Renewable Energy & Sustainability recruitment firm. We provide specialist talent acquisition services to organisations seeking to reduce their environmental footprint, as well as those working towards the decarbonisationof the energy sector.
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