Senior Manager Acquisitions

Property Workplace & Development; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 154,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Property & Development NSW in NSW is seeking a Senior Acquisition Manager to lead complex land acquisition programs, provide strategic guidance, and ensure compliant, timely outcomes across public projects.

You will manage budgets, engage with landowners, agencies, and consultants, and report on risk and financial matters to executives in a dynamic, high-profile environment.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent qualifications in land economics, property valuation, or related discipline.
• Extensive experience leading high-value land acquisitions or compensation programs.
• Strong understanding of planning framework and public land management.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex land acquisition and compensation programs to enable public purpose outcomes.
• Oversee budgets, forward estimates, and funding submissions; report to executives.
• Coordinate valuation, legal, and technical inputs; negotiate with landowners and stakeholders.
• Drive defensible, equitable outcomes in a high-profile environment.

Skills

Land acquisition

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Education

Degree in land economics or property valuation

Job description

Shape complex land acquisition outcomes that support public purpose projects and deliver value for NSW!

• Temporary full-time opportunity up to June 2027
• NSW office located in Parramatta with flexible working supported
• Salary relative to experience, and ranges from $154,231.00 to $178,369.00 (Clerk Grade 11/12)

Join our team and shape your world in a workplace that empowers you to do your best work and build a meaningful career. In this role, you will contribute to shaping lives and communities across NSW, while shaping your own career. You will enjoy flexible work options, varied and impactful projects, and a vibrant, diverse team culture built on collaboration, inclusion and support. We are creating a workplace where everyone belongs and where you can balance work, life and wellbeing.

The role

As the Senior Acquisition Manager, you will lead the delivery of complex land acquisition and compensation programs that enable public purpose outcomes across Property & Development NSW (PDNSW). You will provide strategic leadership and authoritative advice to support Government priorities, manage risk, ensure legislative compliance and promote fair, transparent acquisition practices.

This role will see you develop acquisition strategies, lead high-value and sensitive acquisition matters, oversee valuation, legal and technical specialist inputs, and negotiate with landowners, agencies, advisers and other stakeholders to resolve complex matters and secure timely transaction outcomes. You will also manage acquisition budgets, forward estimates and funding submissions, and report on acquisition, litigation, financial and risk matters to executives.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced acquisition leader who can navigate legislative, commercial and community complexity, balance competing stakeholder expectations and deliver defensible, equitable outcomes in a high-profile environment.

For more information, refer to the attached Role Description: Senior Acquisition Manager

What you will bring to the role

• Extensive experience managing high-value land acquisition and compensation programs within tight timeframes and budgetary constraints, while delivering public purpose outcomes.
• Extensive demonstrated experience developing and delivering strategic land acquisition projects, including strategies, systems and process improvements that support accountability, compliance and value-for-money outcomes.
• Demonstrated awareness of the State Government’s planning framework and its relationship to the acquisition, disposal and management of lands for public purposes.
• Extensive experience applying and interpreting the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act and the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act, including associated legal processes as they apply to land acquisition.
• Extensive experience managing professional consultants, including valuation, technical specialists and legal counsel, to deliver successful project outcomes and support robust, evidence-based decisions.

What is an essential requirement

• Degree or equivalent qualifications in land economics, property valuation or other relevant property related discipline.

Join us

If this role sounds like the right fit for you, we encourage you to apply with your CV and cover letter. We’d love to hear from you and explore how you can shape your world with us. If you have any questions about this opportunity, you can contact Sarah Strang, Director Strategy & Transactions OSL on [e-mail] or 02 9995 6603.

Applications close on Wednesday, 16 September 2026 at 11:55PM.

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