Land and Development Manager / Business Development Strategist

Färgelanda kommun · Vollzeit

Allhemsvägen 5, Färgelanda, Schweden

Färgelanda Municipality Färgelanda Municipality is located in the heart of Dalsland – where sparkling lakes, deep forests, and a rich outdoor life meet with proximity to Uddevalla, Vänersborg, and Trollhättan. We are a smaller municipality with short decision-making processes, strong cohesion, and a culture where openness, participation, and initiative are natural parts of everyday life. Our core values – engaged, enterprising, and with good service – permeate the entire organization. With us, you quickly become an important part of the whole. With approximately 500 employees across Care, Children & Education, Community Development, and Administration, we offer a work environment where security, development opportunities, and community go hand in hand. In Färgelanda, it's easy to thrive – both at home and at work. Help Build the Färgelanda of Tomorrow Do you want to combine community development, land issues, and business development in a single role? Do you want to work closely with decision-makers, entrepreneurs, and residents to create conditions for more residents, more businesses, and sustainable growth? Then this might be the position for you. We are now seeking a Land and Development Manager / Business Development Strategist who wants to take a key role in the municipality's growth and development work. Your Assignment In this combined role, you will work with both the municipality's land and development issues and with developing business in Färgelanda. You will be an important part of the municipality's strategic work for growth, establishment, housing development, and business climate. The role involves close collaboration with municipal management, political representatives, businesses, developers, property owners, regional actors, and residents. You will be a driving force in realizing the municipality's development ambitions by creating favorable conditions for entrepreneurship while ensuring sustainable long-term development of the municipality's land resources. Responsibilities Land and Development Area You represent the municipality as a landowner and work with municipal land from technical, economic, and legal perspectives. In the role, you work with purchasing, selling, and acquiring land as well as handling land allocations and development projects. You are responsible for preparing and negotiating development and implementation agreements and manage leases, usufruct agreements, and easement matters. The work also includes real estate law issues and surveying matters, participation in detailed planning processes and physical planning, as well as developing guidelines, procedures, and governance documents. You also prepare decision-making materials for boards and the municipal council. Business Development and Establishment As a business development strategist, you are responsible for coordinating and developing the municipality's business development work. An important part of the assignment is creating and developing good relationships with the local business community through company visits, networking meetings, and other meeting places. You support existing businesses in their development and expansion while actively working with new establishment issues. The role also includes analyzing business development, labor market conditions, and relevant external factors to identify opportunities and needs. You contribute to the municipality's work on rural development and tourism, represent the municipality in regional networks within Dalsland, Fyrbodal, and Western Sweden, and work to strengthen Färgelanda's attractiveness as an establishment and residential municipality. Qualifications We are looking for someone with a university or college degree in civil engineering, surveying, real estate law, physical planning, economics, business development, or other education that the employer deems equivalent. You have experience working in land and development matters, community development, or business development and have a good understanding of real estate law issues and community building processes. We also see that you have experience in development work or strategic work. You express yourself well in Swedish in both speech and writing and have a B-class driving license. Meritorious It is meritorious if you have experience working in a politically governed organization. Experience with negotiations and contract work is highly valued, as is knowledge of the Planning and Building Act, the Land Code, and the Property Formation Act. We also view positively experience with detailed planning processes, establishment issues, and business development as well as participation in regional collaboration or various development projects. Who Are You? To succeed in the role, you need to be an initiative-taking and driving person who takes responsibility for moving issues forward and achieving results. You work in a structured and analytical manner, have a solution-oriented approach, and are comfortable handling complex issues. At the same time, you easily build trusting relationships and appreciate working in a role with many contact points, both internally and externally. You can shift between strategic perspectives and operational implementation and have strong civic engagement with a desire to contribute to Färgelanda's long-term development. You are a natural team player who at the same time feels comfortable independently driving complex issues from idea to implementation. Welcome with Your Application! Do you want to contribute your expertise to a broad assignment of great importance for Färgelanda's continued development? We look forward to receiving your application. We kindly but firmly decline direct contact from staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of additional job listings.