Land Buyer / Senior Land Buyer in UK

Location: South West England
Salary: £90,000 per year
Recruiter: Churchill Retirement Living
Job Hours: Full-time

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Land is our lifeblood, which is why, we are expanding our Land teams across the country to support our growth drive strategy which will see us doubling our sales output by 2025.


Our existing Land Teams are doing fantastic work and you can expect to be joining a high-performing team which is motivated, focused, and goal orientated.

Why join Churchill’s Land team?


  • Maximise your earning potential, our Land Buyers have an OTE of £90,000
  • We offer an attractive commission scheme, which rewards you for each site you secure, with “top-ups” for enhanced deals, (all paid upon exchange) in addition to a team bonus scheme
  • Competitive basic salary, which is reviewed annually
  • Company car or cash for car allowance
  • Ongoing investment into your personal development with the opportunity to achieve professional qualifications
  • Career progression that is tailored to your goals
  • Plus we offer other benefits, which include; 24 days holiday plus a day off for your birthday, Private medical, Group Personal Pension Plan, Life Assurance and Health Screening
  • £200 John Lewis vouchers for expectant parents
  • Long service awards
  • Colleague land referral bonus scheme
  • We are a socially responsible company with our own Charitable Foundation who offer a fund matching programme for Colleagues
  • Colleague wellbeing programmes and initiatives, including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
  • About the role


    Our Land Buyers play a critical role in the overall success of the business, and we’ll ensure you have all the tools needed to be successful.

    You can be expected to be trusted, respected, and supported in your career with us.

    Our in-house team of experts, which include Architects, Planners, Technical, Legal, Commercial and Construction teams, enable you to create offers efficiently and effectively, drawing from their wealth of experience and specialist knowledge.

    Our Colleagues, including Senior Management, are very much land focused and work together towards our aligned goals.

    In this a fast-moving and all-encompassing role, you will be responsible for the full life cycle of land buying, including:

  • Investigating opportunities through an extensive network of contacts
  • Identifying sites directly through your own efforts of targeted marketing
  • Desktop research, data analysis and utilising Land Insight
  • We believe there is nothing better than seeing something for yourself to appreciate which sites will meet our customer’s needs, so we would want you to visit your target towns in person
  • Carrying out site appraisals, creating reports and proposals
  • Managing the offer and negotiation process
  • Working with your Land Director and wider team to help formulate the land acquisition strategy for the region

    About you


    We are looking for motivated, ambitious, and proactive people to join us at this exciting time.

    You’ll have a genuine passion for land acquisition and development, and be keen to build your skills, knowledge, and experience.

    You’ll have previous Land Buying experience within the property sector, but this does not need to be within residential, as many of our successful Land Buyers have joined us with a background in land acquisition from the commercial, retail and hospitality sectors.

    We also have Colleagues who joined us directly from Property and Land Agencies.

    There are a range of roles within the Land teams but what everyone here has in common is an unwavering passion for their work, dedication, self-motivation, and a hunger for success.

    This is supported by a strong desire and support from the Executive Directors to secure good quality sites for our developments.

    We are looking for people who are confident and competent drivers, with a valid UK drivers’ licence as you’ll be spending a large proportion of your time out of the office.

    A little more about us


    Churchill Retirement Living is the fastest growing company in the UK retirement house building sector.

    We are privately-owned, family-run and financially robust.

    We are proud of what we do and of the people we work with; and to turn our ambitious expansion plans into reality, we will be investing c£250m in land within the next 3 years.

    We have absolute confidence in the UK retirement housing market and are ready to invest further!

    We have industry leading margins which makes Churchill a very stable business and competitive in the land market, and we enjoy the benefits of our own funding facility which means we can move quickly to secure any site which fits our criteria.

    We are a multi award winning business and in 2020 we were named the ‘Best Medium House Builder’ at the WhatHouse?

    Awards and we were voted the 3rd ‘Best Company to Work for’ in the Sunday Times Awards, the same year

    This is an exciting time for our Churchill Land Colleagues as we have a clear strategy, agile infrastructure, and industry leading planning support.

  • COMPANY VALUES – TORCH – Trust / Openness / Respect / Communication / Honesty
  • Join the Churchill family and be part of an ambitious and successful business who value and appreciate their people.

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    About Churchill Retirement Living


    Churchill Retirement Living is an award-winning, privately owned and family run British company, voted Most Outstanding Retirement Housing Operator in the UK for eight years running.

    We have built over 160 retirement living developments across the country. Headquartered in Ringwood, Hampshire and with regional offices in Byfleet, St Albans, Bromsgrove and Warrington, and a satellite office in Exeter.

    We specialise exclusively in developing attractive, purpose-built one and two bedroom retirement apartments in the UK. Our retirement developments are designed to take away all the hassle and fears that can be experienced by older people and replace them with a new lifestyle that provides security, peace of mind and independence.

    Our success is built primarily upon the people who work for and with Churchill Retirement Living and in 2019 we are immensely proud to announce that we have been ranked as the 2nd Best Company to Work for in the UK in the Sunday Times Top 100 list - up two places from 2018 and our best ranking to date!

    In 2016, we also won the coveted Housebuilder of the Year from WhatHouse? This is the most highly respected accolade in the housebuilding industry and we are the first retirement specialist to win the award. 2019 also saw us scoop Gold for Best Medium Housebuilder - a testament to the hard work and dedication shown by our Colleagues at all levels.

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