Land Acquisition Manager

Tri Pointe Homes; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Tri Pointe Homes in Austin is looking for a Land Acquisition Manager to evaluate and acquire property, ensuring strategic partnerships with brokers and land sellers. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in land acquisition, proven leadership skills, and a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

Benefits

Diverse and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of direct experience in land acquisition/divestiture and development.
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines in a high-paced work environment.
• Strong work ethic and commitment to implementation and execution.

Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate and acquire properties for division success.
• Manage the due diligence process on land acquisition opportunities.
• Conduct negotiations with land sellers.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Negotiation

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field

Tools

Excel

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Overview

Want to work for a fast-paced, innovative company? Tri Pointe Homes is always looking for individuals to help us push forward in our pursuit of high-level home buying. If this sounds like a career for you, apply to be a part of our great team.

Tri Pointe Homes Austin is looking for an experienced individual to join our talented group as a Land Acquisition Manager.

Overview

Want to work for a fast-paced, innovative company? Tri Pointe Homes is always looking for individuals to help us push forward in our pursuit of high-level home buying. If this sounds like a career for you, apply to be a part of our great team.

Tri Pointe Homes Austin is looking for an experienced individual to join our talented group as a Land Acquisition Manager.

Position Highlights: As a Land Acquisition Manager you will identify, evaluate and acquire properties that competitively position the division for success. The Land Manager will help ensure that our business plan objectives are achieved by establishing strategic partnerships with brokers and land sellers in the market.

Position Responsibilities

• Recruits, hires, evaluates, trains, develops, and retains a productive and highly engaged team.
• Develops positive, teamwork, and achievement-oriented work culture for the team.
• Models and reinforces actions consistent with the Company’s values, vision, and culture in line with the core leadership competencies.
• Oversees the growth of the team to ensure top performance in achieving desired results while finding efficient and effective solutions that create overall organizational value.
• Participate in and support other departmental and company initiatives as required.
• Ensures land acquisition goals, objectives and strategies are being achieved.
• Monitoring of budgets, schedules, and approves invoice payments.
• Estimate or review hard costs, soft cost, and carry the cost for proformas
• Identify and qualify potential land acquisitions in alignment with division goals by networking with landowners, brokers, and developers.
• Manage the due diligence process on land acquisition opportunities, including initial master planning work in close coordination with internal design and land development teams.
• Conducts negotiations with land sellers.
• Conduct general market research focusing on regional employment, demographics, sales volume, and competition.
• Prepare CMA’s (competitive market comps for new homes and resale data)
• Prepare proformas and forecasting cash flows relative to land purchase, entitlement and development expenditures.
• Maintain inventory reports, critical dates, contract summaries, and periodic market analysis.
• Manages the preparation of internal Land Acquisition Request packages.
• Prepares and manages land acquisition due diligence schedules.
• Assist with the preparation of legal documentation and land purchase contracts.
• Coordinates and maintains relationships with City and County officials, council people, and politicians for approvals on land purchases and processing.
• Facilitate community meetings with the local homeowners association.
• Review and interpret zoning/land use ordinances, environmental mitigation, and master plans.
• Act as liaison with all municipalities in feasibility, zoning, planting, and development of the property.
• Coordinate with the project management team to ensure effective transfer of information from acquisition to development.
• Carefully review deliverables to ensure adherence to design principles and overall community vision.
• Maintain organized files. Ensure checklist items are obtained, manage critical dates and budgets.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Position Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field required.
• A minimum of 5 years of direct experience in land acquisition/divestiture and development.
• Highly developed analytical skills
• High drive individual with a demonstrable track record of independent judgment and discretion
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines in a high paced work environment
• Computer proficiency. Excel expertise.
• Ability to anticipate possible obstacles and propose favorable solutions
• Strong work ethic and commitment to implementation and execution
• Ability to communicate effectively and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
• Some travel is required.
  
  

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Tri Pointe Homes is committed to building a diverse and talented team to help us achieve our goals. Please note that due to operational constraints, we are unable to consider applicants who require visa sponsorship (e.g., H1B, OPT) for this position. This policy applies uniformly to roles where sponsorship cannot be accommodated to ensure consistency and fairness in our hiring process.

At Tri Pointe Homes, we are intentional about fostering an environment where you, and all individuals, are encouraged to be their authentic selves. We embrace individuality and strive to be consciously inclusive of different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives in every aspect of our business. We believe our company’s strength relies on the diversity of the team and the unique, innovative ideas everyone contributes.

Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, if you are a California resident, you have the right to know the categories of personal information that we collect about job applicants, employees and their emergency contacts and beneficiaries, and independent contractors. Please click here for a description of our personal information collection practices.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we make employment decisions based on merit and qualifications and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to apply for an open position or to participate in an interview, please let us know.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Management

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