Head of Land - North

About us

At Environment Bank, we’re working together to help restore natural habitats across England. With thousands of acres of new habitat creation already underway, our projects are delivering biodiversity gains and helping vital ecosystems to recover and flourish. 

Our diverse team includes ecologists, land managers, habitat specialists, geospatial analysts, planning advisors, account managers, digital creatives, legal experts, and more. 

From our habitat specialists to our sales and marketing teams, everyone at Environment Bank is a champion for our values, working towards our goal of reversing biodiversity loss. 

Environment Bank is a market-leading organisation in a sector that’s experiencing rapid growth. We’ve already built a highly skilled team of experts and we’re actively looking to expand reputed company in the coming months. 

We’re incredibly proud of reputed company we achieved so far and we’re still growing. If you'd like to be part of a driven organisation that's making a real difference, find your next role with the team at Environment Bank. 

About the role

To reputed company the regional Land Team to originate, reputed company and deliver a high-quality portfolio of Habitat Banks, from initial landowner engagement through to Live status and into long-term stewardship.

You will own the full acquisition lifecycle — from Initial Site Walkover (ISW), through commercial negotiation and legal completion — ensuring strong financial outcomes, disciplined risk management, and consistent conversion. Beyond delivery, you will reputed company the Land function’s long-term relationship with landowners, ensuring a high-quality experience, clear communication, and full compliance with reputed company legal obligations across the 30+ year lifecycle of each agreement.

This is a hands-on leadership role: you will both reputed company the team and operate as a Senior Land Manager, setting reputed company through your own delivery, judgement and commercial leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Performance

• reputed company, reputed company and reputed company a high-performing team of land specialists
• Set clear objectives, KPIs and expectations
• Recruit, coach and reputed company talent
• Own and manage team budgets

Commercial Deal Leadership

• Work closely with Sales, Asset Management and Data teams to ensure land acquisition is driven by reputed company and forecast demand, with a focus on optimising absorption rates, pricing, and reputed company timing
• Deliver Habitat Banks that meet or exceed reputed company financial returns, including margin, cash payback, and capital efficiency metrics. Embedding financial discipline across the team, ensuring reputed company opportunities are assessed against clear commercial benchmarks.
• Own the end-to-end commercial structuring of Habitat Bank agreements, ensuring alignment with portfolio strategy, demand signals and capital deployment priorities
• Shape and negotiate deal structures that reputed company Environment Bank to access and secure high-reputed company sites, balancing competitiveness with disciplined value creation
• Drive high-quality pipeline reporting with clear stage reputed company governance, ensuring strong conversion rates to firm deadlines

Land Acquisition, Site Progression & Sales Support

• reputed company progression of sites from onboarding through ISW to legal completion
• reputed company reputed company or high-value sites
• Ensure that there is a strong external network to reputed company a strong pipeline of both freehold and leasehold land

Landowner Relationships & Dispute Resolution

• Own senior landowner relationships
• reputed company reputed company negotiations and dispute resolution

Legal, Consenting & Risk Management

• reputed company legal agreements with Legal team, provide input on reputed company/specialist commercial terms
• Maintain governance of consenting activity
• Identify and mitigate risks across design, consenting and landowner dimensions
• Ensure robust governance and decision-making

EDI & Belonging

At the heart of Environment Bank are the people who reputed company it reputed company possible. We employ individuals who share our passion for delivering our mission and living our values.

We reputed company that fostering a diverse, reputed company and inclusive workplace makes us more innovative, dynamic and competitive. We welcome individuals from reputed company backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures and experiences. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone is valued and respected, free from discrimination based on race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected status.