Vice President of National Land Development

Description

What You’ll Do:

The Vice President of National Land Development supports Century Communities and Century Complete operations. This role supports the Company’s regional land teams at a corporate level by providing best practices and expertise to help manage land development. It is responsible for monitoring and managing existing Land Development activities and working closely with the divisions to ensure the timely delivery of finished lots on schedule and within budget. This includes the management of the existing National Land Development team, working with developers, helping set development schedules and keep projects on schedule, working through entitlements, and ensuring that lots meet the contractual requirements in the Purchase Agreement. This is a national role that will require travel to the different regions.

Your Key Responsibilities Include:

• Review and manage land development schedules with National Land Development team members, regional land teams, and third-party developers, guiding them to maintain/accelerate finished lot deliveries.
• Visit sites under development to ensure and verify development progress, review finished lots, and ensure they are in accordance with finished lot conditions in Purchase Agreements.
• Manage the day-to-day activities and progress of the National Land Development team.
• Lead the monthly review of land development budgets at the divisional level, ensuring complete updates to costs and schedules.
• Manage, review, and recommend supporting all revisions to land development budgets.
• Troubleshoot and problem-solve using best practices to resolve land development challenges or issues.
• Responsible for the review, processing, and quality control of land development start requests and monthly reporting to senior management.
• Manage National contracts utilizing Century’s economies of scale with material suppliers and distributors to reduce LD costs by working with National Purchasing to create discount and direct buy programs.
• Ensure the teams manage surety obligations for efficient close-out of projects.
• Supervise the preparation of acquisition feasibility packages, including product recommendations, site-budget analysis, and risk mitigation measures.
• Perform other duties as needed or assigned.

What You Have:

• Ability to analyze land development budgets and schedules and provide ideas to improve both.
• Adept at supervising land planning and/or land development projects such as grading, roads, utilities, stormwater drainage, parks, amenity centers, entry monumentation, and community landscaping.
• Creative and diligent problem-solving skills.
• Public administration knowledge to facilitate the acquisition of information concerning map conditions, planning proposals, and government initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, including the ability to interact successfully with divisions, local officials, community leaders, staff, and the public, organize and facilitate meetings and events, conduct negotiations, find common ground, and develop consensus among disparate interests.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including making presentations to large and small groups.

Your Education and Experience:

• 6+ years in development and entitlement of residential communities, land planning/management, residential real estate, or related activities.
• Knowledge of real estate entitlement requirements and processes.

About Century Communities

Our mission of A Home For Every Dream® is only possible with the best talent in the industry. If that’s you—if you’re a self-starter, changemaker, and thoughtful collaborator ready to take your career to the next level—then apply today!

As one of the nation's largest homebuilders and an industry leader in online home sales, we strive to create thriving, enduring neighborhoods with lasting livability, with a focus on building sustainable, affordably priced homes for our customers while reducing our carbon footprint. For team members, our goal is to provide the resources, opportunities and benefits to build successful and rewarding careers. We’re committed to fostering an environment of diversity, inclusivity, and respect and building a culture dedicated to ethical business behavior and responsible corporate activity.

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