Land Acquisition Manager

Most days tend to involve a blend of sourcing, deal evaluation, and entitlement work — meeting with brokers and sellers, evaluating properties for fit, negotiating purchase agreements, and partnering with engineering, planning, and legal teams. You'll often spend part of the time on due diligence work and part on active deal pipeline management.

The harder part is often the long arc of land deals combined with the political and entitlement complexity that comes with development. You'll typically coordinate across brokers, sellers, attorneys, engineers, and municipal partners, where deals often hinge on entitlement outcomes that can take months or years to resolve.

People who tend to thrive here are commercially instinctive, comfortable with deal cycles that take time, and skilled at the political work of entitlements. The trade-off is the cyclical nature of real estate development and the cumulative pressure of carrying significant capital decisions. If you find satisfaction in assembling the land that gets developed, the role can be a strong destination in real estate.