Head of Land Strategy

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

Glasgow

Salary from £76,400 per annum, 30% bonus, Car Allowance & Family Health Cover

Flexible & Hybrid Working

Help us create a better future, quicker

• Responsible for leading a team of experts to define and implement a successful landowner & stakeholder engagement strategy.
• Work closely with the relevant Business Directors to fully understand short, medium and long term Business strategy and the evolution thereof
• Develop Land delivery strategy working collaboratively with Head of Land Delivery and Head of Estate Management ensuring complete understanding and alignment of Business needs and department delivery
• Ensuring clear understanding and benchmarking of relevant land/property markets to allow fit for purpose land rights strategies to be developed.
• Negotiate and advise on critical, multi-million pound contracts across non-regulated business to deliver the necessary support to meet delivery needs of department
  
  
  

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead a team responsible for ensuring robust and proactive stakeholder engagement extending but not limited to large Government agencies and individual landowners.
• Ensuring Business is aware and understanding of current market financial position and trends with robust and clear benchmarking being undertaken through effective engagement with external parties.
• Working across Business at senior level to support financial modelling for new and existing projects to ensure accurate modelling and decision making at outset and through evolution of project.
• Negotiate, manage, and mitigate Business rates obligations across Business currently extending to over £100m per annum.
• Work closely with Business Directors to ensure thorough due diligence undertaken on acquisition opportunities.
• Through excellent relationships and contacts will bring forward marketed and off-market opportunities for acquisition and divestment consideration
• Clear understanding of Business vision to develop and own the land strategy for ensuring land rights delivery, protection and financial mitigation across the non-regulated businesses.
• Advise on financial and operational risk ensuring full compliance with all statutory requirements and ensuring any land rights being secured, extended, or re-negotiated are commensurate with market levels.
• Developing and delivering land strategies which will help deliver Business objectives, meeting and adding to Business Operating plans.
• Work collaboratively across GSUK Management team to deliver best value from any contracting and tendering with appropriate consideration given to opportunities to maximise support from 3rd party supply chain to enhance delivery and reduce costs.
• Pro-actively manage a varied property portfolio, seeking opportunities to work collaboratively with Commercial & Operational GSUK teams to develop strategies to deliver cost and environmental benefits to portfolio.
• Engagement with wider Scottish Power stakeholders to advise, guide and ensure value added approach to land.
• Benchmark Business Real Estate delivery to ensure an exemplar portfolio Management and land rights delivery.
• Develop strategy and lead on the divestment of assets from the portfolio ensuring best value but with appropriate consideration to wider Business needs.
  
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Educated to degree level in a Real Estate discipline, Member of RICS with demonstratable PQE
• Experience setting and managing robust land rights strategies for high-profile infrastructure and energy projects across the UK.
• Open, inclusive, and approachable style of management leading collaboration across team, stakeholders and GSUK
• Detailed understanding of Energy market with particular focus on relevant Business area for the short-, medium- and long-term targets,
• Ability to promote professional standards as well as being a key role model holding a high-profile position across an SP Business
• Experience working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders including Senior colleagues, Solicitors & External industry peers to develop strategies, objectives, policies, and procedures designed to achieve the highest performance levels for a land & property portfolio.
• Ability to work autonomously on high profile, time of the essence projects recognising the need for support and sensitivity where required.
• Proactive approach to Real Estate strategy with an ability to recognise opportunities for efficiencies and new approaches.
• Have an ability to keep abreast of wider market factors that will influence land delivery strategy including growing and developing a network of key contacts to aid such.
• Strong leadership credentials managing a team of Chartered Surveyors with responsibility to develop and execute a Real Estate strategy.
• Strong ability to mentor, coach and develop a team of Chartered Surveyors ensuring the correct allocation of resource to meet an ever-changing workload and demand.
• As Professionally qualified Chartered Surveyors the team must ensure compliance with regulations and standards pertaining to all aspects of the built environment.
  
  
  

What’s In It For You

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

Benefits

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
  
  
  

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.

Due to the level of this position, successful candidates will be required to complete additional background checks and any offer is subject to passing such checks.

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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January-3-2025