We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to help expand an increasingly important asset management department within our business.

Responsibilities

• Managing forestry and woodland plantations from planning planting and restock sites
• Supporting with the application of grant and other support packages
• Contractor supervision (planting, weeding, fertilising, beating up etc), timber harvesting contracting and oversight
• To act as principal asset manager of client’s forestry properties throughout England
• To expand the asset management base over a period of time to create recurring fee income driven by excellent client service
• To assist (or be) the Registered Valuer with forestry valuations and property portfolios, to include site work, valuation preparation and draft presentation
• To identify investment opportunities for forest/planting land acquisitions and to present investment recommendations to clients
• To support and develop additional forest management client work
• Have the confidence to communicate clearly with them as required
• Ability to deliver afforestation projects through to harvesting contracts for clients, and report appropriately
• To prepare annual budgets, present recommendations, and to deliver the budget on behalf of clients and advise on forest manager selection for a client’s property

Person specification

• Experience of providing forest and asset management for clients
• Knowledge and understanding of developing carbon and natural capital markets
• Capable of building relationships with existing and new clients and generating new opportunities
• Good time management, ability to prioritise workloads and ability to meet deadlines
• Able to analyse forest data and produce valuations and cash flows for internal purposes and client presentations
• Excellent communication skills – must be capable of building and maintaining good relationships with team members, other colleagues and clients.
• Confident manner with clients and the team including the wider S&P/BNPRE teams
• An understanding of confidentiality issues and the use of discretion

Qualifications:

• Ideally member of or working towards membership of ICF
• Significant advisory, consultancy or valuation experience in the woodland and forestry sector

Experience

• Minimum of three to five years working in the forest industry/land management
• Positive attitude and enthusiasm is essential
• Proficient in the use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• An interest in the rural economy and the countryside equally important