Flexible across all Southern Offices: Orpington, Horley, Ashford, Aldershot, Epsom, Poole, Oxford, Guildford, Portsmouth.
Full-time | Hybrid – 2 days per week in office or site visits.
Competitive salary package with enhanced benefits: Business Travel Support, Joint-contribution pension, enhanced maternity & family leave, life assurance, HolidayPlus, Virtual GP & Employee Assistance Programme plus retail and leisure discounts.
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Overall purpose: Provide support to the Business and the Legal Property team to ensure the Company has appropriate property consents and agreements to protect and reduce risk to the group profile and its infrastructure/assets.
Responsibilities
* Engage with stakeholders at all levels, including landowners, land agents, solicitors and heads of departments within the SGN Group, to prepare, negotiate and secure contracts for laying gas apparatus, including purchasing and leasing land, obtaining consents, agreeing on financial considerations, managing project budgets and timelines and overseeing rent payments and rent reviews.
* Advise the business and secure all required statutory and planning consents.
* Agree access routes with the business and landowners, negotiate compensation payments for losses due to work carried out by the Group, and ensure landowners, occupiers and agents maintain a positive impression of SGN for future negotiations.
* Document agreements with legally binding contracts and ensure obligations from negotiations are fulfilled.
* Instruct, oversee and manage external land agents.
Qualifications & Experience
* Practical knowledge of agricultural land valuation practice and principles or experience in a similar role.
* Experience within the utilities industry is beneficial but not essential.
* Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel throughout South East England as required for inspections or site meetings, and travel to London office as needed.
* Ability to manage an unsupervised, varied workload to demanding timetables.
* Strong communication skills to ensure effective passage of instructions and advice, both written and orally, and ability to build rapport with a variety of people from different backgrounds.
* High attention to detail.
* Comfortable with lone working but also a team player.
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