Job Title: Associate/Associate Director

Location: Birmingham

Salary: Attractive salary + Strong benefits package

The Company

Penguin Recruitment is delighted to be supporting one of the largest UK Planning Consultancies who are looking for the hire of an Associate - Associate Director to join the Birmingham office.

Role Overview

The successful candidate would work within the 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. My client 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.
• Proactive, efficient, and effective.

Team Overview

This position of Associate is an important strategic role in the Birmingham Planning Team and wider Birmingham Office - to help deliver, a wide range of exciting and high profile projects. The 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 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

Interested?

The hiring manager is looking to meet with suitable candidates ASAP so if you meet the above criteria, please contact Josh Jones on (phone number removed) or (url removed)