Property Acquisition Case Manager

National Highways

The Role

Overview

Manage land acquisition, rights, and compensation for A66 upgrade, ensuring compliance.

Key Responsibilities

  • data analysis
  • record keeping
  • customer liaison
  • legal liaison
  • work management
  • compliance monitoring

Tasks

-Collating and analysing relevant information to inform effective decision making. -Accurately maintaining the company’s property records, financial including forecasting and other administrative records, using the company’s systems; to ensure they comply with statutory and internal procedures, and inform effective decision making. -Liaising with colleagues and customers, building effective relationships to ensure that claimants and affected landowners receive a good customer service. -Liaising with the company’s legal and valuation suppliers to acquire land and rights that are needed to improve or maintain the Network. -Managing work to meet objectives, ensuring that the relevant law, policies, and procedures are followed.

Requirements

  • record keeping
  • attention to detail
  • governance
  • stakeholder engagement
  • customer service
  • it skills

What You Bring

-Effective record keeping and attention to detail especially in respect of managing case finances. -Ability to follow processes and procedures and recognise the importance of governance is desirable. -Ability to effectively engage with both internal and external stakeholders and deliver excellent customer service. -Excellent grammatical skills with ability to deal with items such as legal documentation or drafting letters etc. -Demonstrable IT skills to enable production/maintenance of a range of complex documents and spreadsheets.

The Company

About National Highways

-Fueled by multi-billion-pound Road Investment Strategies, it delivers major upgrades like the A14 bypass and the smart motorway spine. -It engineers iconic projects—like the 1.8 km Hindhead Tunnel under the Devil’s Punch Bowl—and supports cutting-edge trials, including self-healing bitumen. -Operators and uniformed traffic officers patrol 24/7 from control centres, managing incidents, warning drivers, and keeping traffic flowing. -The authority sets design standards via the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges and publishes contract and maintenance frameworks used across the UK and Commonwealth. -Regulated by the Office of Rail and Road and guided by multi-year funding cycles, it balances reliability, safety, innovation and value for taxpayers.

Sector Specialisms

Highway assets and design

Fencing and vehicle safety restraints

Electrical and land drilling

Road surfaces, paving and surface marking

Manufacturing, structures, fasteners and coatings

Temporary traffic management

Landscaping and environment

Tunnel management and incident management

Property Acquisition Case Manager at National Highways in Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom