Manager, Land Acquisition

Application deadline

October 31, 2025 , 23:59 EST

Country

United States

Location

Austin, Charlottesville, Chicago

Workplace

Hybrid (office and home-working)

Working hours

Full-Time

Employment type

Permanent

Salary range

104,000-130,000

Legal entity

Orsted North America Inc

Why join?

Fully paid medical premium

Generous parental leave package

Numerous opportunities for growth and development

Attractive offer of paid vacations annually

Join us in this role where you’ll provide forward-looking and strategic support to the organization in real estate matters.

Welcome to Project Development

You’ll be part of the Site Acquisition Team where you, together with your colleagues, will be responsible for securing leases and easements for greenfield and mid-stage renewable energy projects. You’ll have significant cross-functional collaboration with Project Development, Finance, Insurance, and our Legal team. As a team, we work closely with both internal and external stakeholders and experts in real estate and onshore wind and solar, both here and across the globe, to deliver quality sites for our green energy projects. In this role you will regularly travel (30%) to project sites throughout the US to engage with key stakeholders and negotiate project critical agreements.

You’ll play an important role in:

- selecting and managing contract Land Agents to help us secure leases, easements, and purchase options in identified target areas

- planning and executing outreach and acquisition campaigns in different markets throughout the US

- negotiating project critical agreements with key stakeholders and their advisors

- working with the team to ensure a consistent, best practice approach on key issues, by aligning real estate strategies and delivering on high-quality advice on key issues across the projects

- evaluating real estate markets targeted for potential greenfield campaigns

- reviewing and aligning key project documents and positions to present a consistent approach to land acquisition and management across all projects and markets

- managing and improving strategic relationships with key external stakeholders and ensuring regular feedback to key internal stakeholders on progress, success, and issues to be raised.

To succeed in the role, you:

- have a bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, finance, or a related field

- have 4-6 years of relevant experience

- have strong organizational and communication skills

- pay a high level of attention to detail

- thrive in an international environment and create good relationships with your stakeholders.

Join a global leader in renewable energy

Ørsted is a growing green energy major and global leader in climate action. With us you’ll play a part in driving change towards a green energy future. You’ll grow your talent in a fast-paced and high-growth industry where you have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop through challenging assignments and industry-leading experts. Here, you can perform in a friendly work environment based on trust, respect, and collaboration.

Shape the future with us

Send your application to us no later than October 31, 2025.

We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we have found the right candidate.

If you need to request any adjustments to working practices, working patterns, or the assessment or interview process, we're happy to discuss alternative arrangements.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.