Senior Property Acquisitions Manager

HS2 Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits 20%

Pensionable benefits

Job summary

HS2 Ltd in London or Birmingham is seeking a Senior Property Acquisition Manager to lead on delegated acquisitions, ensuring timely availability of land for the HS2 project. You will drive complex negotiations with area landowners and manage compensation processes within policy and budget.

You will also embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in all work, build strong stakeholder relationships, and collaborate across the property acquisition team to deliver on schedule while maintaining HS2’s

Qualifications

• Experience in property acquisitions or land acquisition.
• Experience negotiating with multiple stakeholders on sensitive property issues.
• Understanding of compulsory purchase or government compensation schemes (training provided).

Responsibilities

• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
• Oversee complex acquisitions on the route across diverse properties.
• Lead negotiations with landowners and manage compensation to schedule and budget.
• Provide technical advice to delivery function, town planning, environment and petition management stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the property acquisition management team to ensure consistent approach across HS2.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Team communication

Public communications

Project management

Report writing

IT skills

Data analysis

Education

Chartered Surveyor

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Location - London OR Birmingham

Salary - Base salary: From £59,268pa for London and from £54,878pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

We are Recruiting for 2 x Roles.

As a Senior Property Acquisition Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for leading on delegated acquisitions to ensure timely availability of the required land for the HS2 project.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

About the role :

- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

- Responsible for overseeing the more complex and challenging acquisitions on the route that includes a highly diverse mix of properties, spanning cities and large
areas of rural land on behalf of the Acquisition Lead

- Implement the strategy for delivering this significant acquisition program, as well as helping to ensure the programme runs to time whilst maintaining HS2’s reputation
Manage complex negotiations and relationships with area landowners

- Ensure all compensation claims are negotiated to settlement within policy, legal guidelines and budget parameters so that land is available to the project at the
right time

- Proactively build relationships with affected property owners, individuals and organisations in a specified area of a region, to enable the negotiation process to
be carried out effectively

- Support the relevant aspects of petitions, negotiations and valuations to ensure resulting acquisitions meet forecast and quality requirements

- Lead negotiations for petitions filed within a specified geographical area to minimise petitions reaching select committee, and prepare the evidence for cases
that are presented to committee

- Provide relevant technical advice to the delivery function, town planning, environment and petition management stakeholders, to inform decision making in those areas from a property perspective

- Collaborate and communicate with other members of the property acquisition management team to ensure a common and consistent approach is adopted across HS2.

- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work,and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI

About you:

Skills:

• Ability to manage communications and negotiations in a tactful way
• Stakeholder management
• Communicating effectively with teams to ensure smooth flow of information
• Skill in developing public facing communications
• Capability in project management techniques
• Report writing skills and data compilation and analysis
• IT skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent
• Ability to access, analyse and maintain information from multiple IT databases and systems.

Knowledge:

• Chartered Surveyor (or equivalent) with knowledge of dealing with multiple stakeholders on sensitive property issues
• An understanding of the compulsory purchase process or other government compensation schemes (training will be provided).

Type of experience:

• Experience of working in the property business (preferably in land acquisition)
• Experience of working with suppliers to develop effective working relationships and manage performance to ensure delivery through the supply chain.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.