About the role

  • Land Portfolio Manager for Anglian Water managing non-operational land, estate transactions and property activities. Identifying surplus land, negotiating leases, and ensuring sustainable land use.

Responsibilities

  • Identify surplus land (including major holdings such as large estate parcels) and lead end ‑ to ‑ end disposal, leasing and commercial exploitation opportunities
  • Deliver land deals including sales, leasing, easements, mineral extraction rights and rental agreements
  • Act as contractual lead for telecoms providers using Anglian Water assets (e.g., mobile operators on water towers), overseeing leases, approvals and income recovery
  • Act as a strong, resilient commercial negotiator able to challenge, say no where needed, and engineer deals balancing value and risk
  • Framework manage estates suppliers, ensuring performance, visibility, remediation responsibility and governance standards are met
  • Oversee telecoms income rights agreements and supplier performance, including quarterly relationship management
  • Provide specialist estate services advice, support planning processes, attend hearings and engage with external bodies where required
  • Support biodiversity, land use planning, ecosystem enhancements and environmental obligations across the land portfolio
  • Lead visible management of land entry, access, remediation and estates service activities
  • Support strategic tax planning relating to land and property transactions
  • Travel extensively (typically circa 10k miles per year) to visit sites, suppliers and internal/external stakeholders
  • Ensure Health & Safety excellence across all land and site-based activity

Requirements

  • Degree ‑ educated with a background in land, estates or property management
  • Highly experienced in land and estates matters, ideally including commercial disposals, valuations, surveys or planning
  • Commercially minded with experience delivering large ‑ value, complex land and property deals
  • Strong, confident relationship manager able to influence and challenge stakeholders at all levels
  • Experience in framework management, contracts, supplier performance and remediation oversight
  • Chartered Surveyor (RICS) desirable but not essential
  • Knowledge of planning, engagement processes, surveys and environmental/biodiversity considerations
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills across technical and commercial conversations
  • Self ‑ starter with ability to work independently across geographically dispersed sites
  • Strong analytical, negotiation and decision ‑ making skills

Benefits

  • 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
  • Flexible working options
  • Private health care
  • Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
  • Life assurance at eight times your salary
  • Annual bonus
  • Potential funded car allowance depending on evidenced business mileage
  • Personal medical assessments
  • Virtual GP service
  • Cancer screening
  • Financial wellbeing support and salary finance benefits
  • Lifestyle Savings including discounts on retail, travel, and utilities
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Volunteer days

Job title

Land Portfolio Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£55,000 - £60,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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