Senior/Associate Planner
An exciting opportunity to join our growing Cardiff planning team!
Role Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a RTPI and/or RICS qualified Senior or Associate Planner to join our dynamic Cardiff Planning Team. This role is ideal for someone with strong experience in UK town planning and a thorough understanding of governmental systems. You’ll be responsible for managing your own projects, conducting planning research, and preparing high quality reports and submissions including site assessments, policy notes, applications, appeals, and development plan representations.
You’ll also play a key role in supporting senior colleagues and contributing to the team’s overall success. This includes assisting with workload management, business development activities, and client engagement.
If you're a proactive planner with excellent analytical and communication skills, and you're looking to make a meaningful impact in a collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you.
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What we offer you:
- Career and Professional Development
- 25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical Scheme
- Virtual GP
- Global Mobility Scheme
- Rewards Platform
- Company Pension Scheme
- Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave
Find out more about Savills offer
Team Overview
The Savills Planning Team in Cardiff is made up of 17 planners and is a highly respected part of the UK’s largest planning consultancy, with over 190 specialists nationwide. The team works across a diverse range of projects and clients including developers, investors, corporates, charities, and education providers delivering schemes locally, regionally, and nationally.
Current projects include work with Wrexham AFC, Indurent Park in Newport, Twyn Hywel Energy Park, Bridgend College, Cardiff Bay mixed-use development, and a Carbon Capture and Storage scheme in North Wales. The team collaborates closely with colleagues across Development, Investment, Office Agency, New Homes, Building Services, Energy & Sustainability, and Property Management, forming part of the largest property services firm in Wales.
Recruitment agencies
Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
- Business area
- Planning & Development Consultancy
- Role
- Planning
- Locations
- Cardiff
- Contract Type
- Permanent, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role offers some working from home
- Salary
- Competitive
Cardiff
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.
About Savills
Over 40,000 people work for us in more than 70 countries all over the world. This breadth of global coverage, combined with specialist services and market insight, means we'll always have an expert who is local to you.
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