Head of Strategic Land

About the Company

Berrys is a people-focused property business, built on trusted relationships and a commitment to delivering the best outcomes for our clients. Property is what we do, but our clients and our team are at the heart of everything we achieve. Acting as a trusted advisor, we are ready to support at any stage, bringing together expertise and insight to help navigate challenges and create opportunities.

As a trusted adviser, Berrys works with clients across the whole lifecycle of land and property ownership, bringing together insight, technical expertise and sound commercial judgement to help them navigate challenges and make the most of opportunities.

Working across four offices in the Midlands, we offer a wide range of services including rural surveying, valuation, planning, development consultancy, property agency, building surveying and business consultancy, helping our clients make the very most of their land and property assets.

This is a senior opportunity for someone who wants to build Berrys' strategic land presence in Towcester, using the firm's established client base, regional reputation and multi-disciplinary platform as a springboard for growth.

The Role

Berrys is looking for a commercially minded strategic land professional to lead and grow its strategic land and development consultancy presence from the Towcester office. This is a senior, fee-generating role with a clear commercial mandate from day one.

The successful candidate will be expected to create the opportunity. Towcester offers a highly relevant geography for strategic land, with access to landowners, developers, promoters, and professional networks across Northamptonshire and the surrounding area. Berrys provides the brand, established client relationships and multi-disciplinary platform to build from; the right person will read the market, build the right relationships and turn them into instructions.

For the right individual, this role also offers a longer-term opportunity to become an important part of the Towcester office's future leadership. Berrys is planning for continued growth and succession, creating scope for the successful candidate to take on wider influence as the role develops.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Berrys' strategic land and development consultancy presence from the Towcester office, setting its direction and driving its growth
• Build a pipeline of strategic land instructions, development agency opportunities and related consultancy work
• Identify, create and convert new business opportunities with landowners, developers, promoters, agents and professional contacts
• Build and maintain external client relationships alongside Berrys' internal referral network
• Provide strategic advice to landowners on land promotion, development potential, disposal strategy, planning risk and value creation
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across rural surveying, valuation, planning, property agency and wider consultancy disciplines
• Act as the senior figurehead for strategic land within the Towcester office and the wider market
• Set a clear business plan for growth and shape the long-term development of the strategic land function

Candidate Profile

An experienced and commercially driven strategic land professional, ready to operate at a senior level:

• Strong experience in strategic land, development agency, land promotion, rural property consultancy or a closely related field
• A demonstrable track record of winning work, generating fees and developing client relationships in a consultancy environment
• A strong understanding of the strategic land process, including promotion strategy, planning risk, valuation drivers and disposal routes
• Commercially minded, entrepreneurial and comfortable operating with autonomy
• Confident and credible with landowners, developers, promoters, agents, planners and wider professional stakeholders
• Able to create and deliver a business plan and be motivated to build and take ownership of it
• A genuine interest in broader leadership or partnership within a multi-disciplinary practice over time
• Likely operating at Associate Director, Director, Partner or equivalent level, or ready to make that step; professionally qualified or strongly experienced, with MRICS or equivalent preferred

Why Berrys?

• Real autonomy to lead and build a strategic land presence from a position of strength
• Immediate access to an established client base and a strong regional reputation
• A valuable regional geography from a land and development perspective
• The Berrys multi-disciplinary platform is a genuine competitive advantage for clients
• A collaborative, flat structure where senior people have genuine influence from day one
• Long-term progression and leadership potential within the Towcester office
• Flexible seniority, with broader leadership and partner-level conversations possible for the right individual
• 35 days holiday, private healthcare, enhanced pension, agile working, professional fees, CPD support and a comprehensive benefits package

This vacancy is exclusively managed by Joshua Robert Recruitment. All direct and third-party applications will be forwarded to Joshua Robert for consideration.

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