Landscape Contracts Manager

Landscape Contracts Manager

Multiple locations

Hybrid

Are you an ambitious and driven individual looking to advance your career?

Indevor Group, a fast-growing, award-winning start-up, is looking for hard-working and conscientious individuals to join our high-performing team. As we enter the next phase of growth, we are seeking talented candidates to help us scale and deliver innovative solutions to the house-building industry.

We are committed to excellence, high performance, uncompromising standards, and success.

This isn’t a role for someone simply looking to pick up a pay cheque or even just build a reasonable career. We are looking for people who want to become part of our story, those willing to work hard, embrace challenges, and help us deliver on our ambitious business plan while having fun and making money along the way.

This role would suit an individual with experience in landscape or estate management, contracts management, or grounds maintenance.

This is not for the faint‑hearted. But for the right person, it’s one hell of a journey.

About Us

Indevor Group is reshaping the house‑building industry through innovation, technology, and a relentless focus on results. Our clients include some of the UK’s leading FTSE 100 companies, and we take pride in delivering solutions that drive real impact.

We’ve built a culture that balances ambition with support, a place where people are challenged to achieve their best while being part of a team that celebrates success together. Our commitment to our people has earned us Gold accreditation from Investors in People and recognition in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for two consecutive years (2025 and 2026), underlining our belief that high performance and a great workplace go hand in hand.

Role Overview

As the Landscape Contracts Manager, you will play a key role in delivering English Estates’ growing portfolio of environmental and countryside projects, including suitable alternative natural greenspaces, country parks, nature reserves and biodiversity net gain projects. You will lead onboarding, technical assurance, handover and initial aftercare, ensuring completed assets are ready for safe, compliant and effective long-term operational management.

The role will primarily cover sites across the South and Southwest of England, including Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Sussex, Essex and Wiltshire, with occasional travel to sites outside this area as required.

Working within the Environment & Biodiversity Team, you will help deliver high-quality greenspaces for communities and conservation. You will provide technical oversight from initial site assessment through to capital works delivery and the handover and aftercare maintenance arrangements.

The role combines project management, technical inspection and review, and contractor oversight, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest possible standard in accordance with specifications. Working closely with colleagues, clients and contractors, you will provide expert guidance throughout the onboarding process of each project while maintaining quality, compliance and commercial awareness.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a growing business, supporting the successful delivery of projects that enhance biodiversity, create high-quality green spaces and deliver lasting environmental value.

Responsibilities Include

Project Handover and Aftercare

• Coordinate the handover of completed sites, ensuring all contractual, technical and operational requirements are met prior to acceptance.
• Verify that maintenance plans, warranties, asset information and compliance documentation are complete before site acceptance.
• Ensure defects and outstanding works are identified, monitored and resolved prior to handover.
• Support and coordinate the transition of completed greenspaces into long-term operational estate management.
• Appoint, coordinate and manage landscape maintenance contractors during the initial aftercare period, monitoring performance, quality, compliance and value for money.
• Manage aftercare budgets and monitor contractor performance throughout the maintenance period.
• Maintain accurate handover, asset and warranty records to support the transition into long-term management.

Landscape Contracts & Works Monitoring

• Review contracts, warranties, specifications and associated project documentation relating to the delivery of hard and soft landscaping works.
• Ensuring projects comply with required specifications and drawings, quality standards and environmental objectives.
• Undertaking site inspections across greenspace and countryside projects, monitoring the quality and progress of hard and soft landscaping works.
• Inspecting completed works where necessary identifying defects and specifying improvement and remedial works to enable sign off and handover of the site.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work collaboratively with colleagues across English Estates and the wider Group.
• Build positive relationships with contractors, consultants and external stakeholders.
• Promote consistent technical standards across all English Estates projects.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery, specifications and operational processes.
• Support the continued growth and development of English Estates.

Requirements

• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Estate or landscape management professional with more than 5 years practical experience in landscape, environmental or countryside management.
• Experience of contract administration, including contractor management, cost control and qualify assurance.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. Chartered Institute of Horticulture, Landscape Institute or CIEEM).

Desirable Qualities

• GIS experience and capabilities (QGIS, ArcGIS or similar)
• Understanding of planning processes
• Sound ecological and biodiversity knowledge including biodiversity net gain
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• Strong commercial awareness and sound decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Proactive, self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a practical approach.
• Committed to maintaining high standards of health, safety and environmental compliance.
• Professional, dependable and takes ownership of responsibilities.
• Adaptable and able to thrive in a fast‑paced environment.
• Full UK driving licence.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive training and ongoing support to help you excel in your role
• 75% reimbursement of your monthly mobile phone bill to cover business use
• Performance-based financial rewards, recognising your contributions.
• Gym Membership
• Included in private healthcare scheme after one year of service
• Opportunities to participate in charity initiatives and team‑building activities, from fundraising walks to skydiving
• Daily Lunch Allowance
• Work-Related Expenses – i.e., Travel costs and mileage
• Reimbursement of professional fees
• A chance to work with an award‑winning, high‑performing team

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £35,000-40,000

Locations Bristol, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Guildford Remote status Hybrid

Contact Cameron Norris Group HR Advisor – Human Resources

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Cameron Norris

Group HR Advisor

Bristol Basingstoke Salisbury Guildford

Workplace, Culture & Diversity

Corporate culture is essential to allow the organization to differentiate itself. In terms of image on the one hand, it has strengths both internally and externally to consumers. It is indeed a source of cohesion and motivation of employees and it limits conflicts. With customers, it conveys a positive image and can develop a feeling of closeness to the company or even become a criterion of choice.

Our Perks & Benefits

• Enhanced Holiday Allowance

Take the time you need, our enhanced holiday allowance policy supports true work-life balance.

• Gym Membership

Stay active and healthy at any gym of your choice.

• Free Lunches

Paid for lunch everyday, plus free healthy snacks like fruit available all day.

• Regular social & team events

We celebrate our successes together with fun, team-building events every quarter.

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