Planning Associate/Associate Director

Stantec; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Town Planning Associate or Associate Director to join their Birmingham office. This role is pivotal in driving the ambitious growth strategy of the company, focusing on securing and delivering a variety of planning projects across the Midlands region. The ideal candidate will possess excellent technical planning skills and a commercial mindset, with experience in promoting developments and managing client relationships. Join a supportive and inclusive culture that encourages personal and professional growth, offering flexible working arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Life assurance

Private health care

Flexi-benefits package

Opportunity to buy and sell holiday

Qualifications

• Proven track record in securing and delivering planning projects.
• Experience in mentoring teams and pursuing growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Promoting residential and mixed-use developments through planning applications.
• Conducting research and site appraisals for client projects.
• Coaching and mentoring junior team members.

Skills

Chartered Town Planning

Project Management

Client Relationship Management

Site Appraisals

Business Development

Education

Chartered Town Planner

Job description

Are you a chartered Town Planner in the Birmingham/Midlands market wanting to play a key part in our ambitious growth strategy? Do you have a proven track record in securing and delivering planning projects across the region? Have you lead and mentored teams and have a keen eye for identifying and pursuing opportunities for growth? If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for a Town Planning Associate or Associate Director to join our Birmingham office. Conveniently located within the heart of the city centre it has easy access to public transport, including being a short walk from New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill Stations. Town Planning works in collaboration with a host of other disciplines including Design/Masterplanning, Landscape, Transport, Engineering and Environmental specialists. You will be joining one of the largest planning teams in the city who are delivering projects ranging from residential, mixed-use, commercial, industrial and employment through Development Plan promotion and planning applications and appeals.

About you

You will be a chartered Town Planner operating at Associate or Associate Director level with excellent technical Planning skills and a commercial mindset.Setting ourselves apart from our competitors and being leaders in our class is fundamental to our growth strategy, we are therefore looking for knowledge and experience gained from within the Birmingham/Midlands market and likely from a competing consultancy or private sector organisation.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Promoting large to medium scale residential, mixed-use, employment, and other developments (both brownfield and greenfield) through the Local Plan and by preparing planning applications of all sizes / types.
• Conducting research and site appraisals on projects for our client base.
• Lodging appeals and potentially appearing at Informal Hearings andcoordinating projects through the examination processes.
• Build and maintain client relationships.
• Further raising the team profile and supporting business development activity across the Midlands region
• Co-ordination of internal and external project teams and project management/quality assurance.
• Coaching and mentoring junior members of the team.

We would consider applications with experience in various project sectors within Town Planning that compliment or add to our existing areas of expertise.

We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special. We work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture and one of high support and high challenge, where we are not afraid to take on new and greater responsibilities and are each individually encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally, with genuine career opportunities based on merit. We create a working environment that offers flexibility, adopting a hybrid approach to agile working and offer a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private health care and a flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable to you, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

For more information please contact Ruth Hoggett (Talent Acquisition Manager)

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