Land Buyer

Churchill Retirement Living; West Byfleet; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car / cash allowance

Private medical insurance

Group Personal Pension Plan

Life Assurance

Health Screening

Birthdays off

Job summary

Churchill Retirement Living is seeking a Land Buyer to manage the full life cycle of land acquisition, from identifying opportunities to negotiating offers. The role involves close collaboration with an in-house team of architects, planners, and commercial specialists and requires regular travel to site locations across the region.

You will contribute to the land acquisition strategy for the division, bring a proactive mindset, and support career development with our executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Land buying experience in the property sector.
• Willing to drive across sites with a valid UK licence.
• Motivated, ambitious and proactive with a land focus.

Responsibilities

• Investigate opportunities through an extensive network of contacts.
• Identify sites directly through targeted marketing and desktop research.
• Analyse data and use Land Insight to assess opportunities.
• Visit target towns to evaluate sites meeting customer needs.
• Carry out site appraisals, create reports and proposals.
• Manage the offer and negotiation process with landowners.
• Collaborate with the Land Director and team to shape acquisition strategy.

Job description

Land Buyer

2026-10-08T00:00:00

West Byfleet

Surrey

GB

KT14 6

Any

Churchill Retirement Living

2027-01-09T07:03:24.753

About the role

Our Land Buyers play a critical role in the overall success of the business, and we'll ensure you have all the tools needed to be successful. You can be expected to be trusted, respected, and supported in your career with us. Our in-house team of experts, which include Architects, Planners, Technical, Legal, Commercial and Construction teams, enable you to create offers efficiently and effectively, drawing from their wealth of experience and specialist knowledge. Our colleagues, including Senior Management, are very much land focused and work together towards our aligned goals.

In this a fast-moving and all-encompassing role, you will be responsible for the full life cycle of land buying, including:

• Investigating opportunities through an extensive network of contacts
• Identifying sites directly through your own efforts of targeted marketing
• Desktop research, data analysis and utilising Land Insight
• Visiting target towns in person to assess sites meeting customer needs
• Carrying out site appraisals, creating reports and proposals
• Managing the offer and negotiation process
• Working with your Land Director and wider team to help formulate the land acquisition strategy for the division

About you

We are looking for motivated, ambitious, and proactive people to join us at this exciting time. You'll have a genuine passion for land acquisition and development, and be keen to build your skills, knowledge, and experience.

You'll have previous Land Buying experience within the property sector, but this does not need to be within residential, as many of our successful Land Buyers have joined us with a background in land acquisition from the commercial, retail and hospitality sectors. We also have colleagues who joined us directly from Property and Land Agencies.

There are a range of roles within the Land teams but what everyone here has in common is an unwavering passion for their work, dedication, self-motivation, and a hunger for success.

This is supported by a strong desire and support from the Executive Directors to secure good quality sites for our developments.

We are looking for people who are confident and competent drivers, with a valid UK drivers' licence as you'll be spending a large proportion of your time out of the office.

How you'll be rewarded

Our Land Buyers have an OTE of 80,000. We offer an attractive commission scheme, which rewards you for each site you secure, with "top-ups" for enhanced deals, (all paid upon exchange) in addition to a team bonus scheme. Competitive basic salary, which is reviewed annually. Company car or cash for car allowance. Ongoing investment into your personal development with the opportunity to achieve professional qualifications. Career progression that is tailored to your goals.

Plus we offer other benefits, which include; 24 days holiday plus a day off for your birthday, Private medical, Group Personal Pension Plan, Life Assurance and Health Screening. Colleague wellbeing programmes and initiatives, including access to our Employee Assistance Programme. We are a socially responsible company with our own Charitable Foundation who offer a fund matching programme for colleagues.

About us

Churchill Living is the fastest growing company in the UK retirement house building sector. We are privately-owned, family-run and financially robust. We are proud of what we do and of the people we work with; and to turn our ambitious expansion plans into reality, we will be investing approximately 250 million pounds in land within the next 3 years. We have absolute confidence in the UK retirement housing market and are ready to invest further!

We have industry leading margins which make Churchill a very stable business and competitive in the land market, and we enjoy the benefits of our own funding facility which means we can move quickly to secure any site which fits our criteria. We are proud to have been voted a Sunday Times Top 10 'Best Places to Work' based on our colleague feedback. Not only that, but we've won a host of industry awards including the prestigious Housebuilder of the Year at the WhatHouse? Awards.

This is an exciting time for our Churchill Land colleagues as we have a clear strategy, agile infrastructure, and industry-leading planning support. We understand the importance of protecting your personal data when you submit a job application. For more information on how we process your personal data please read our Privacy Policy.