Associate Planner
We have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced RTPI qualified Planner to join the Savills Birmingham Planning team at Associate level.
Role Overview
The successful candidate would work within the Savills Birmingham Planning Team providing planning services to a wide range of clients in the Midlands. The team’s reach is diverse, with a strong pipeline of regionally significant projects including Strategic Urban Extensions, new settlements, major industrial and logistics developments, retail repurposing and town centre regeneration, major urban mixed-use and commercial, in addition to a wide ranging rural / land owner estate portfolios. We work for a wide variety of high profile clients, spanning landowners, private individuals, institutions, developers, promoters, national and regional house builders, commercial/leisure operators and investors.
Key Responsibilities
- Draw up, present and negotiate competitive proposals.
- Develop creative and original solutions to satisfy all parties.
- Undertake research and analysis.
- Contribute to the preparation/editing of Design & Access Statements, sustainability statements, and other planning supporting documents. Prepare planning appraisals of land, buildings and concepts.
- Prepare and promote land through the Local Plan process including at Examination in Public.
Key Skills
- 5 years Post Qualified (MRICS/MRTPI) experience
- Commercial and entrepreneurial.
- Detail conscious, accurate.
- Proactive, efficient and effective.
- can work to tight deadlines.
- Team player.
Team Overview
This position of Associate is an important strategic role in the Birmingham Planning Team and wider Savills Birmingham Office – to help deliver, a wide range of exciting and high profile projects. The Savills Birmingham Planning Team, which is one of the largest in the Region and regarded by our clients as a market leader, is an integral part of the biggest planning consultancy in the UK which is over 300 strong with planning specialists covering every land use sector and geographical area in the UK.
The successful candidate will work in our new multi-service office located at 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham. The Savills Birmingham Office is growing rapidly and is now almost 170 strong. This is an exciting and rare opportunity for the successful candidate to experience working as an Associate planner within a truly cradle to grave development environment alongside colleagues in Development (residential and commercial), Industrial & Logistics, Office agency, Investment, Building Surveying and Project management, Capital Markets, Property Management and others.
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- Business area
- Planning & Development Consultancy
- Role
- Planning
- Locations
- Birmingham
- Contract Type
- Permanent, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role offers some working from home
- Salary
- Competitive
Birmingham
Our offer
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Holiday
We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.
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Health
Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.
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Lifestyle
We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.
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Our Offer
Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below
Values
No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values:
We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.
We empower: Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. We give you opportunities to have a real, positive impact in the community through the work you do, backed by access to our market-leading research and insights.
We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.
We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.
At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.
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Associate Planner
We have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced RTPI qualified Planner to join the Savills Birmingham Planning team at Associate level.
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