Location: Peterborough (Hybrid) Contract: Permanent Salary: Circa £60,000 Who are we? Here within the one Alliance we are a totally collaborative organisation made up of our eight partner companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO) and our extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP 8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment for career progression. We truly care about doing the right thing, and enabling our business to be able to deliver what is needed to succeed and build on our efficiencies. To help us achieve these targets we are looking for a Land Lead to join our Enabling Team. What will you be doing as our new Land Lead? Reporting directly to the one Alliance Enabling Manager, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of landowner engagement, land access and land acquisition activities across the one Alliance delivery programme. Key responsibilities: Support Delivery of Land Access & Acquisition Activities Manage external Land Agency related activities. Manage projects (forecasting, costing, and programming), land and interest referencing, access negotiation and management of legal notices using statutory powers, compensation, valuations and settlements. Provide accurate forecasting on land compensation and acquisitions. Landowner Engagement & Collaboration Identify and engage with strategic regional landowners to ensure Enabling and delivery teams have the best opportunity for gaining approvals in a timely and cost-effective manner. Work with Anglian Water Quality and Environment Teams to develop land strategies to support the implementation of nature-based solutions. Develop strategies to enhance landowner sentiment. Land Access & Acquisition Strategy Develop, embed, and manage the one Alliance land strategy. Ensure consistent delivery of land acquisition and access activities across external supply chain partners and internal delivery teams by enhancing existing processes and procedures. Support the ongoing development and transformation of geospatial and digital interfaces with regards to obtaining, recording, communicating, and archiving of land access and acquisition data. Land Agency Framework Manage Land Agency supply chain partners. Working with the Anglian Water and one Alliance Procurement teams, support the ongoing development of the existing supply chain, ensuring a ‘fit for purpose’ framework. A little bit about your skills, experience, and behaviours…. To be successful in this position you will be a Land specialist who has excellent digital and referencing, access and acquisition experience. You will have extensive experience in negotiating terms for property and land access and acquisitions under statutory powers. You have a strong background and demonstrable knowledge of all land rights and interest in related matters and ideally MRICS or AssocRICS qualified. With your proactive communication skills, you will lead on landowner and occupier engagement, and enjoy sharing your expertise across the one Alliance and integrated teams. Your ability to work flexibly across several projects and engagement to meet required deadlines without supervision makes you stand out in the crowd If you are an experienced, ambitious, and driven Land specialist looking to join an industry leading alliance, please apply today How will we look after you? It’s not just a job here, you’ll be looked after too. We want to reward and recognise you for what you do, we can’t give you free water (apart from at work), however we do have a range of benefits that are customisable to your lifestyle. Annual bonus scheme Private health care Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double matches your contributions up to 6% 26 days leave, rising with service Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for those celebrated by your religion Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle Life cover 8x your salary Personal accident cover – up to 5x your salary Inclusion at Anglian Water: Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.