Acquisition Delivery Manager

Mission: Deliver reliable, high-quality site access, infrastructure and services that support our customers' evolving connectivity needs.

For almost two decades, Cornerstone's infrastructure has quietly supported the UK's mobile networks. Whilst we continue to strengthen that foundation and extend its reach, we're in an exciting period of acceleration and product development that will see us enable more connectivity and compute to more communities and industries across the UK.

As our Acquisition Delivery Manager
, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering the property transactions that keep our network operating and growing. You'll take ownership of acquisition and design-related projects across a defined region or customer programme, ensuring sites are acquired, renewed, upgraded and maintained efficiently while delivering against customer, shareholder and business objectives.

Working closely with internal teams, acquisition partners, suppliers and shareholders, you'll help unlock site opportunities, maintain continuity of service and drive delivery excellence across a diverse portfolio of telecoms infrastructure projects.

Every successful mobile network depends on having the right sites, in the right locations, at the right time.

This role is critical to ensuring Cornerstone continues to secure, protect and optimise its estate portfolio through effective project management and property transaction delivery. From new acquisitions and lease renewals to upgrades and site sharing opportunities, you'll ensure sites progress smoothly through the delivery lifecycle while balancing commercial, operational and customer requirements.

Your expertise will help maintain security of tenure, support network expansion, minimise business risk and maximise the value of Cornerstone's infrastructure assets.

Build Strong Stakeholder Relationships

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with Acquisition Partners, Shareholder Regional Teams and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and objectives.

Manage the successful delivery of acquisition and design-related projects, including lease renewals, new site acquisitions, upgrades, NTQs and incoming/outgoing site-share applications.

Track delivery against timescales, budgets and volume targets, ensuring customer, shareholder and business commitments are achieved.

Manage Risks, Issues and Dependencies

Identify, monitor and manage risks, issues and dependencies across programmes of work, escalating where necessary to maintain delivery momentum.

Maintain visibility across all work streams, ensuring forecasts are accurate, up to date and aligned to agreed standards through effective supplier management and reporting.

Support delivery of Capex and Opex targets through sound commercial decision-making, adherence to policy and effective management of agreement terms.

Provide guidance and validation of supplier activity to ensure property transactions are completed efficiently and site-specific issues are resolved effectively.

Lead and manage third-party acquisition agents, estates partners and suppliers to ensure delivery targets, quality standards and contractual obligations are met.

Contribute actively to Health & Safety, Environmental, Business Continuity and Information Security requirements, ensuring compliance across all activities.

• Considerable site acquisition knowledge gained within a mobile network or telecommunications environment.
• Extensive experience delivering high volumes of property transactions and site-related projects against challenging targets.
• Significant experience managing…