About the role

Land Development Manager

Location: Home Based, National (With office hubs in Leeds, Warwick and The Strand, London)

We're at the forefront of the biggest period of change in the electricity network since the 1960s to meet the demands of Net Zero; upgrading infrastructure across the country to connect more clean, affordable energy to the grid – moving it from where it’s generated to where it’s needed by UK homes and businesses. We need to enable new customer focussed connections and coordinate third party works on our sites at a much larger scale – efficiently and collaboratively in this digital age.

As a Land Development Manager, you'll will work as part of a team to support and grant rights to connection customers requiring access across NGET non operational land, developing site strategies to facilitate The Great Grid Upgrade.

We're looking for a passionate, creative leader with excellent communication skills, who is people focused, and eager to work within a fast-paced environment.

In this role you can enjoy our hybrid working from office and home. You'll be flexible to travelling to offices and project sites as required.

Key accountabilities

• Collaboratively deliver and manage work through the supply chain on the disposal of land rights.
• Develop detailed site strategies which includes financial reporting, risk reporting, developing programmes and prepare recommendations for complex sites.
• Engage and negotiate with potential customers, tenants and purchasers.
• Identify land across the ET portfolio which can add value through both leasehold and freehold disposals. This includes identifying and removing constraints to enable new land opportunities and maximise land value, including planning constraints, tenancy matters, and operational equipment.
• Develop new and innovative business models with a focus on future energy customers.

About you

What we do isn’t just important – it’s essential. That’s why we look to recruit experts in their field. In this case, we’re looking for someone who has:

• Energy / utility experience, in particular knowledge of market norms and best practice.
• Knowledge of planning and land redevelopment, landlord and tenant matters and working knowledge of property law.
• Proven negotiation and deal making skills, competent in negotiations with commercially astute developers, financiers, energy developers and contractors.
• Experience in leading mixed teams of internal staff and external firms including lawyers, financial advisors, property advisors and planning experts.
• Demonstrable commercial and financial acumen.
• Excellent project management and delivery skills with the ability to lead and manage the end-to-end process.
• Experience managing supply chain, including external consultants.
• Advantageous to understand principles of DNO 1990 lease/ licence rights and champion the new DNO Policy.
• Degree level qualification or equivalent in an appropriate discipline.
• Chartered Surveyor – Member/Fellow Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors MRICS/FRICS/AssocRICS is desirable.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What you'll get

• A competitive salary between £60,000 - £75,000 – dependent on capability.
• Job requirement car.
• An annual performance bonus of up to 15%.
• 28 days annual leave plus eight statutory days.
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days.
• A generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - so long as it's relevant to your role.
• Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.

About us

National Grid Strategic Infrastructure is a Business Unit created to propel our grid forward to deliver in 5 years, what has been achieved in the previous 30. By 2030 we aim to have 17 new major infrastructure projects live across England, Scotland and Wales.

Here at National Grid, we connect homes and businesses to power, making sure supply and demand match each other. We make sure the lights are on in schools, operating theatres, and sporting arenas; we’re thousands of people working on behalf of millions of people.

Our investment in Strategic Infrastructure via The Great Grid Upgrade will mean more home-grown power, greater energy security and a cleaner future.

Whatever your role, wherever you work with us, you’ll help us hit stretching targets and achieve our far-reaching goal: to secure, clean energy that supports our world far into the future. Here, you will be at the heart of energy.

More information

This role closes on 6 June 2025 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

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