Head of Land & Partnerships

So… What is this role exactly? This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Development or Growth professional to join Your Housing Group’s as Head of Land & Partnerships. At Your Housing Group, we’re passionate about creating more places for people to thrive. As we continue to grow our development programme and deliver high-quality affordable homes, we’re looking for a commercially astute leader to identify, secure and deliver new development opportunities that support our ambitious growth plans.

You will have a home-based contract but there is the requirement with this role to visit our Head Office in Birchwood, Warrington for meetings and training when needed. You will also need to visit development sites and partners. Realistically, you will be required to visit our Head Office once, sometimes twice a week, so ideally you will be based in the North West within a comfortable commute to Warrington, Cheshire.

As Head of Land & Partnerships, you’ll lead the sourcing, appraisal and acquisition of land and development opportunities across our operating areas. Developing strong relationships with landowners, local authorities, developers, and other strategic partners, such as Homes England and local authorities, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality affordable housing schemes that create lasting social value while delivering strong commercial outcomes for the Group.

In partnership with, and reporting to the Director of Assets & Growth, you will also have the opportunity to significantly contribute to the development and implementation of the Group’s growth strategy. One of the great things about this role is that you will be using your leadership skills and experience in Development & Growth to improve the lives of thousands of our customers across the North West and Staffordshire.

To be a successful Head of Land & Partnerships here at YHG, you require a proven great track record in all thing’s Development & Growth at a senior or SME level including Significant experience within affordable housing development, residential development, or property acquisition. First‑hand experience of Development and land acquisition confident securing land‑led and developer‑led opportunities for affordable housing development. Proven experience managing Design and Build contracts and development agreements.

Excellent understanding of development finance, planning and affordable housing funding. Ideally you will be a great collaborator capable of building relationships across a large organisation and throughout a wider external environment. A confident relationship builder and leader of people, able to professionally influence and challenge stakeholders and partners at all levels, both internally and externally. Experienced in presenting investment recommendations to senior stakeholders and Boards.

This role is really suited to someone who is self‑motivated and has a good level of gravitas, allowing them to both successfully lead teams and develop key collaborative relationships on the Group’s behalf, to make a real difference to the lives of our current and future customers.

In return we offer £80,000 - £85,000 for a 35‑hour week, and 29 days annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance. At #TeamYHG we measure performance on outputs and quality, not hours and minutes. We offer a flexible, homeworking culture where we trust our people to manage their time responsibly.

If you need to adjust your working day for commitments such as appointments, we’ll support this provided it works alongside business requirements and team priorities. And when you need to collaborate with your team, you can visit Youggle House – our purpose‑built collaboration, wellbeing, and social space in Birchwood, Warrington.

On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%),…