Senior/Associate Planner
Join Savills' market-leading London Planning Team, delivering high-profile commercial, infrastructure, industrial and logistics projects while developing your career on landmark schemes across the UK.
This is an exciting opportunity for an MRTPI-qualified Planner to join Savills' market-leading London Planning Team at Senior Planner or Associate level. Working across a diverse portfolio of commercial, infrastructure, industrial and logistics projects, you will support the delivery of planning strategies and secure positive outcomes for some of the UK's most recognised organisations.
You will play an important role in delivering projects from inception through to completion, working alongside senior colleagues on major planning applications, Local Plan representations, appeals and Development Consent Order projects. The role offers exposure to a wide range of high-profile instructions, while providing the opportunity to build client relationships, develop technical expertise and contribute to multidisciplinary project teams.
The successful candidate will have relevant post-qualification experience, a strong understanding of the UK planning system and a proven ability to manage planning projects and stakeholder relationships. Experience across a range of planning work, together with strong communication, organisational and analytical skills, will be highly advantageous.
Joining one of the UK's largest and most respected planning consultancies, you will have the opportunity to work on landmark projects for major clients while developing your career within a collaborative, entrepreneurial and ambitious team. This role offers excellent professional development prospects, exposure to high-profile schemes and a clear pathway for progression within Savills' national planning business.
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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
Savills has one of the largest planning consultancies in the UK with a team of 350+ operating across 23 offices across all the principal regional markets. We remain the largest planning consultancy set within a multi-disciplinary property company.
The Commercial Planning Team currently comprises of five Directors, four Associates and a number of Planners and Graduate Planners. This role will entail working closely with Directors in the Team to manage and support on an exciting pipeline of projects – in particular delivering a significant pipeline of projects and work for clients including BAE Systems, Hutchison Ports and Anglian Water.
Our aim is to deliver planning solutions that maximise the value of our clients’ property assets, taking into account the planning policy context, technical and environmental factors, local community considerations and overall sustainability.
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
- Margaret Street, London, Manchester - Booth Street
- 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.
About Savills
Over 42,000 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.