Senior Acquisitions Manager

HSPG: A social impact real estate company

Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.

There is a critical lack of affordable housing across the UK, affecting the most vulnerable people in our community.

We build long-term partnerships with Local Authorities to acquire and manage demand-driven social and affordable housing across various tenures, as per the image below.

Across HSPG’s Living Sector platforms, we are actively acquiring 2,500 high-quality homes from national housebuilders and developers by the end of 2025. These properties are managed by our experienced team, grouped into portfolios, and funded by our institutional investment partners.

HSPG aims to positively impacts our residents’ lives, while providing long-term, sustainable returns for our investment partners. 

Core Behaviours:

Core mission: 

As Senior Acquisitions Manager, your mission is to acquire £100m of high-quality housing for PPHA, ensuring every home is of a quality that you’d be happy to move your own family (or yourself) into, and that delivers strong  returns for PPHA. 

You are responsible for executing the strategic growth of PPHA’s affordable housing portfolio, influencing our acquisitions approach, mentoring your analysts, and ensuring every transaction contributes to our mission: building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities. 

You will contribute evenly to the acquisition target (£400m pa) and ensure that you transact according to our buy box and specifications. You should treat every acquisition and scheme as if it were your own business, aiming to achieve the best metrics, quality and overall service for PPHA and our customers. 

You will source new deal opportunities nationwide through a network of housebuilders, developers and agents and personally manage the deal process from site identification through to legal exchange/completion. You will have detailed knowledge of the contractual and legal processes involved, and will be able to oversee it to completion, ensuring the deal achieves all commercial objectives.  

You will be a trusted voice in the Investment Committee, using your expertise to influence decisions and drive value. You will ensure our acquisitions pipeline is diverse, resilient, and forward-looking  

Obsess: These points get you out of bed in the morning and keep you up at night! If you’re not obsessed with these, the role isn’t for you. 

• Pipeline powerhouse: you live and breathe your pipeline. You know exactly where every opportunity sits, what’s next to convert, and how to remove obstacles that slow momentum. You ensure the team’s pipeline aligns with PPHA’s strategy and supports our £400m+ annual target.


• Relationships that deliver: you nurture long-term, trusted relationships with developers, housebuilders, investors and agents. You’re not chasing deals, you’re building partnerships that create repeat, high-quality deal flow.


• Flawless execution: you ensure every deal is watertight: commercially sound, legally clean, and aligned with our buy box. You take pride in the detail because you know precision is what keeps deals alive. 

Excel: You are excellent at these areas: an expert. 

• Strategic deal leadership: you can quickly assess whether a site fits PPHA’s commercial and social objectives. You understand how yield, tenure mix, and location affect long-term performance for both investors and residents. You are comfortable challenging assumptions and guiding the team toward optimal deal structures.


• Financial and commercial acumen: you can lead detailed appraisals, stress-test returns, and translate complex financial outcomes into clear strategic recommendations. You anticipate how variables (grant, programme, OMV, rent levels) impact NIY and investor appetite. You understand the levers that influence value across the full transaction lifecycle.  


• Building relationships: you are a senior relationship owner with developers, funders, and local authorities. You negotiate confidently to secure the best commercial and quality outcomes. You represent PPHA with professionalism and authority in all interactions, ensuring we are the preferred partner of choice. 

Specific experience: 

• Led transactions totaling £200m+ in aggregate GDV across affordable housing, build-to-rent, or mixed-tenure residential schemes.


• Strong command of investment appraisal and financial modelling, with the ability to interpret outputs and drive strategic recommendations.


• Exposure to institutional or fund-backed investment partners, and experience preparing and presenting at Investment Committees or similar governance forums. 

Outcomes & Metrics: the desired result and how we measure it