Lands Manager

Description and Requirements

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

We are looking for a Land Manager to join our Infrastructure team in Norwich. The role is key in developing positive relationships with the wide range of local stakeholders with land/planning interests in the scheme. It will support the client in conducting the Compulsory Purchase and land purchase by agreement process to secure temporary and permanent land acquisition for the efficient delivery of the scheme and is instrumental in minimising the level and nature of objection to the scheme from landowners.

What you'll do:

1. Stakeholder – collaborate with the Skanska Project Management Team, National Highways and Designer to identify and map individuals and organisations whose interests can be affected by the delivery of the scheme in the area of the Project. Analyse their expectations and attitudes. Develop the administrative tools, documents and trackers to maintain throughout design, construction and handover of the scheme.
2. Drive and influence stakeholder behaviours which help the DIP achieve its vision, mission, and strategy.
3. Develop mitigation strategies and communication strategies to secure stakeholder support for the project proposals as they develop.
4. Engender understanding of the project’s vision, mission, and strategy across its stakeholders. Create clarity, communicate clarity, and reinforce clarity in a mutually trusting, honest, consistent, and timely manner.

What you'll bring to the role:

1. Experience of developing and delivering stakeholder engagement and managing communications that are underpinned by a customer focus.
2. Proven experience managing landowners/external stakeholders in a major infrastructure project environment.
3. Excellent organisational and administrative skills/data management capabilities.
4. Understanding of a competitive environment, customer needs and the ability to work creatively and lead with strategic goals.

Equal Opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible Working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable Adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using recruitment@skanska.co.uk if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More Information About the Role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: recruitment@skanska.co.uk

Closing Date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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