Senior/Associate Planner
We have a fantastic opportunity for a qualified Senior or Associate Planner within our Central Planning team.
Role Overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for a qualified Senior or Associate Planner within the Central Planning team. The successful candidate will be part of a team of around twenty-five working closely with, and reporting to, an Associate Director/Director. The team undertakes a wide range of work promoting strategic land, housebuilder proposals, landowner promotions, appeals, planning appraisals, regeneration and rural work.
This team sits within the Planning Division and sits over two main offices based in Reading and Oxford, covering projects typically within and around the Thames Valley.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join a market leading and growing team, significantly progressing your career.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing planning consultancy advice to colleagues and clients
- Reporting to clients and senior colleagues and keeping in regular contact
- Attend and report to clients at regular project meetings
- Be capable of striving to win some further work for the department (though the primary role is to process existing and new planning work)
- Be capable of dealing with instructions and clients alone after an introductory period
- Strive to become a single point of contact for clients
- Production of reports to support planning applications and appeals
- Assistance with/ drafting Local Plan representations, the promotion of sites and support at Examination in Public
- Provide assistance to team members wherever possible
- Develop and maintain active communication both within your team and other teams
Key Skills
- A team player with leadership potential
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
- MRICS / MRTPI qualified
- Practical understanding of Property
- Experience in a similar role (preferably at least 3-6 years planning experience in either public or private sector)
- Strategic approach to problem solving
- Full driving license and access to your own car for day to day business requirements
- Strong, verbal, numerical and report writing skills
- Excellent communication skills
Team Overview
This position is an important strategic role in the Central Planning Team and wider Savills Office – to help deliver, a wide range of exciting and high profile projects. The Savills Central 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.
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- Business area
- Planning & Development Consultancy
- Role
- Planning
- Locations
- Oxford, Reading
- Contract Type
- Full time
- Remote Status
- This role offers some working from home
- Salary
- Competitive
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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Senior/Associate Planner
We have a fantastic opportunity for a qualified Senior or Associate Planner within our Central Planning team.
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