Land Manager

Job Title

Land Acquisition Specialist

M/I Homes has been building new homes of outstanding quality and superior design for 50 years. Founded in 1976 by Irving and Melvin Schottenstein and guided by Irving's drive to always "treat the customer right," we have fulfilled the dreams of over 170,000 homeowners and grown to become one of the nation's leading homebuilders. M/I Homes started as a family business and grew into a national leader in a single generation with divisions in 17 markets, including Austin, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Ft.

Myers/Naples, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Nashville, Orlando, Raleigh, San Antonio, Sarasota, and Tampa.

Job Summary:

Assists land department in site identification, due diligence, acquisition, platting, associated schedules, leads market analysis through software programming. Responsible for maintaining and establishing reporting tools for land operations on the acquisitions side.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists in analyzing given markets for possible acquisitions and locating land.
• Responsible for leading market analysis efforts for the 9 key counties as well as product analysis for our competitors in the Indianapolis market.
• Lead the implementation of land acquisition software with collaboration from VP of Land. Including but not limited to Prophetic and Termsheet.
• Assists in creating all land slides for both division and corporate meetings/drives. These include demographics, competitor placement, school locations, retail and other key locations.
• Orders due diligence, such as environmental analysis of wetlands, streams, subsurface soils analysis i.e. water, rock, soft soils in collaboration with Land Development Manager.
• Examines site plan development with respect to Topo, floodplain, utilities, storm water, sanitary sewer, storm drainage and water feasibility.
• Marshals design of amenities to include team collaboration.
• Schedules preliminary plat with engineers and planners, solves issues and shepherds government approvals.
• Lead financial analysis and completion of all reverse proformas for prospective sites. This is done in collaboration with VP of Land and VP of finance.
• Lead the completion of cashflows for all LAF submissions in collaboration with VP of Land and VP of Finance.
• Assists with special projects as requested and performs additional duties as required.
• Assists in HOA management, complaints and maintenance.