Senior Land Buyer

Churchill Living Ltd; Basildon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading property company in the UK is seeking a Senior Land Buyer to drive land acquisition efforts. The role involves investigating opportunities, managing negotiations, and working within a high-performing team. Candidates should have a passion for land acquisition, previous experience in property, and a valid UK driving license. The position offers a competitive salary package with an OTE of £90K, company car or cash allowance, and various colleague benefits including professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Commission scheme

Company car or cash allowance

24 days holiday plus birthday off

Private medical

Group Personal Pension Plan

Life Assurance

Health Screening

Long service awards

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Previous Land Buying experience within the property sector.
• Passion for land acquisition and development.
• Valid UK driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Investigate opportunities through contacts.
• Identify sites through targeted marketing.
• Carry out site appraisals and create reports.

Skills

Land acquisition knowledge

Negotiation skills

Data analysis

Communication

Tools

Land Insight

Research tools

Job description

Job Details

Job title: Senior Land Buyer

Hours: 37 per week, Monday to Friday

Based: South East

Package: Competitive salary, with OTE to £90K p / a, with company car or cash for car plus excellent colleague benefits

Land is our lifeblood, which is why, we are expanding our Land teams across the country to support our growth drive strategy which will see us doubling our sales output in the next few years.

Our existing Land Teams are doing fantastic work and you can expect to be joining a high-performing team which is motivated, focused, and goal oriented.

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 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
• We believe there is nothing better than seeing something for yourself to appreciate which sites will meet our customer’s needs, so we would want you to visit your target towns in person
• 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 region

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.

Why join Churchill’s Land team?

• Maximise your earning potential, our Land Buyers can earn an OTE of £90,000 p / a
• 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
• £200 John Lewis vouchers for expectant parents
• Long service awards
• Colleague land referral bonus scheme
• We are a socially responsible company with our own Charitable Foundation who offer a fund matching programme for Colleagues
• Colleague wellbeing programmes and initiatives, including access to our Employee Assistance Programme

More 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 c£250m 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 makes 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 a multi award winning business and in 2020 we were named the ‘Best Medium House Builder’ at the WhatHouse? Awards. Since then, in 2023, we’ve been ranked in the Sunday Times Top 10 ‘Best Places to Work’.

This is an exciting time for our Churchill Land Colleagues as we have a clear strategy, agile infrastructure, and industry leading planning support.

COMPANY VALUES – TORCH – Trust / Openness / Respect / Communication / Honesty

Join the Churchill family and be part of an ambitious and successful business who value and appreciate their people. Apply today!

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