Senior Property Acquisitions Manager in Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom |
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JOB PURPOSE
The Senior Property Acquisition Manager is responsible for leading on delegated acquisitions to ensure timely availability of the required land for the HS2 project.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- 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
- You will drive forward highly complex negotiations and manage relationships with high profile 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.
REQUIRED CRITERIA
SKILLS
- Ability to manage communications and negotiations in a tactful way
- Effective 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
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