Senior Land buyer in Woking - Churchill Retirement Living Ltd

Job Description 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 by 2025.
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 orientated.

Why join Churchill’s Land team?
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

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
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.
A little more about us
Churchill Retirement 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 and we were voted the 3rd ‘Best Company to Work for’ in the Sunday Times Awards, the same year
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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