- Birmingham or London based. Salary
- Base salary:
Birmingham £38,550pa to c.£ 45,350pa/ London £41,750pa to £49,100pa
depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits. H2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included and achieves their full potential. This means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and offering personal and professional development opportunities. The Utility Land Rights Manager is responsible for managing the processes established to ensure timely delivery of utility land rights required for the HS2 project. This scope covers non-contestable and contestable utility diversions for the entire HS2 line of route (both Phase 1 and Phase 2). About the role: Responsible for overseeing utility land right cases on the route that includes a highly diverse mix of land and property, spanning cities and large areas of rural land on behalf of the Senior Utility Land Rights Manager. Overseeing the process to ensure consideration sums are negotiated to settlement within governance, industry guidelines, and budget parameters so that land rights are complete at the right time for the project. Proactively build relationships across a range of organisations, including external strategic suppliers and utility companies along with internal stakeholders and teams, enabling the negotiation process to be carried out effectively. Provide relevant technical advice to the delivery function to inform decision making at the early stages of design and construction work. Collaborate and communicate with other members of the Land and Property Acquisition and Management teams to ensure a common and consistent approach is adopted across HS2. Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI. About You: Skills: Ability to manage communications and negotiations in a tactful way. External Strategic Supplier management to ensure efficient delivery. Stakeholder management. Communicating effectively with teams to ensure smooth flow of information. IT skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent. Ability to access and maintain information from multiple IT databases and systems. Knowledge: A relevant qualification in Surveying or another property-related discipline or relevant work-based experience working towards qualification. An understanding of the compulsory purchase process or other government compensation schemes (training will be provided). An understanding of the utility and telecommunications industries. Type of Experience: Experience of working in or with the utilities sector. Experience of working with suppliers to develop effective working relationships and manage performance to ensure delivery through the supply chain. Experience in managing Strategic Suppliers. Experience in delivering large-scale infrastructure projects. The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI. As HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application, and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks. We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
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