Director, Land Acquisition

Location Dallas - 4835 LBJ Freeway, Suite 690 Business At Brookfield Residential, a leading North American land developer and home builder for over 65 years, we have had one goal in mind - creating the best places to call home.

From the development of award-winning, master-planned communities to the creation of well-designed homes, we are committed to cultivating exceptional life experiences for our customers, partners, employees, and members of the community.

As part of Brookfield - one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world - we harness our resources to bring a fresh approach, unparalleled creativity, relentless innovation, and sound Sustainability practices to the planning, development, and management of buildings everywhere.

From offices, retail spaces, and logistics facilities to multifamily residences, hospitality establishments, and mixed-use structures - we are reimagining real estate from the ground up.

The Director, Land Acquisition leads sourcing, underwriting, negotiation, and execution of land acquisition opportunities across the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Partners with executive leadership to drive strategy while overseeing due diligence, financial analysis, and deal execution.

• Oversees and manages financial analysis of development and investment opportunities, including the creation of detailed pro-forma and financial models.
• Oversees detailed proforma assumptions to support modeling accuracy and quarterly business plan updates
• Review and/or prepare competitive market analysis with pricing graphs and resale analysis.
• Responsible for Screening Memo and IC presentations to executive leadership
• Coordinate with Investments Team
• Oversees critical Issues list compilation based on a thorough review of all diligence documents
• Lead the comprehensive feasibility analysis with documented findings.
• Oversees the preparation of operational goals for the Department.
• Directs activities that have significant impact to the achievement of results inclusive of Business Plan and Strategic Plan Updates.
• Focus is on execution of annual strategic and operational plans
• Leads cross departmental project teams
• Lead negotiations with brokers, land sellers and buyers with the oversite of the VP of Land.
• Prepare LOIs.
• Review and provide feedback on and coordinate purchase and sale agreements and related agreements.
• Oversee weekly agenda for acquisition meetings and updating of land tracker.
• Research and manage/filter opportunities provided from your own research, referrals from our team, brokers, and other contacts.
• Oversees creation of a database and track all land transactions
• Develop relationships with strategic third parties such as land owners, City Council members, brokers, other builders/developers.
• Oversee underwriting assumptions and cash flow analysis for prospective opportunities
• Coordinate due diligence efforts; compile critical issues list, fee updates, comprehensive feasibility analysis, complete the feasibility tracker and coordinate meetings with other departments and task completion
• Manages the due diligence on acquisitions under contract, and develop documentation and recommendations on key findings that may affect the return and financial performance of the proposed deal.
• Lead project post feasibility approval and during escrow period to ensure closing obligations/conditions and timelines are achieved.
• This may include coordinating entitlements or other advancement of project readiness or permitting with in-house team members and outside consultants.
• Oversees land closings with Escrow/Title for acquisitions and dispositions

• 10-12 years of experience in Land Acquisition, Project Management and/or Forward Planning.
• Bachelor's degree…