Senior Planner or Associate Director / Policy

Salary: £66,000 – £72,000 per year

Penguin Recruitment is delighted to be supporting a national Property Consultancy on the hire of a Senior Planner or Associate Director to join the Planning, Development, and Regeneration team.

This company provides a range of consultancy services to developers, investors, landowners, housebuilders and the public sector. The team works on a variety of schemes of all shapes and sizes, dealing with a range of issues including major brownfield regeneration sites or heritage and conservation matters.

In this role, you would engage on a wide variety of projects, including Housing and Economic Need Assessments, Employment Need Assessments, Housing Land Supply Reviews, strategic portfolio reviews, and site identification, socio-economic assessments, and a wide variety of projects in between.

The work carried out by the team is diverse and rewarding, having a direct impact on your client’s business and providing true value. The services the team cover are:

• Dealing with planning policy and site appraisals
• Local plan promotion and monitoring
• Evidence base preparation
• Section 106 negotiations
• Expert witness/planning appeals

If successful, this position would see you working from the Manchester office, in the Northern team which covers the North East and Yorkshire regions, working closely with teams in Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield. The position would involve close work with the Director in Leeds on a day-to-day basis, engaging on a number of different projects and pieces of work.

As a Senior Planner / Associate Director you will be involved in your own fee-earning work and gain a greater degree of client exposure on a regular basis. In the position, the company will work with you to gain increased client exposure, develop and improve on your business development skills and experience and work with you to mentor and manage junior members of staff. As these skills develop over time, the business will look to your next stage of career progression and beyond.

Job Requirements

• MRTPI
• Problem solving and analytical
• Good communicator
• Well organised
• Details and accuracy orientated
• Able to engage and negotiate with a diverse range of people
• Flexible, creative with the ability to come up with imaginative solutions to problems

Salary / Benefits

On offer is an attractive salary and strong benefits package (including company car or car allowance). A flexible working policy is in play and you would join an experienced Consultancy that will help you achieve your career objectives.

Interested?

If you are looking to join an established and busy firm with a great reputation in the market, this is the role for you!