Associate Planning Consultant

Associate Planning Consultant

Birmingham

A fantastic opportunity has presented itself for an ambitious Associate Planner to join a global leading multi-disciplinary consultancy in Birmingham!

The successful candidate will work across a variety of major infrastructure, renewable energy, and development projects as part of a growing Planning and Environment team.

Why Apply?

For the ideal candidate, my client is happy to offer a competitive basic salary and an impressive accompanying benefits package. The company will support flexible working arrangements and are keen to accommodate individual requirements in order to support a healthy work-life balance. There are flexible working hours and hybrid working options available.

The benefits package includes generous annual leave entitlement, car allowance, EV schemes, medical and dental insurance options, season ticket loans, GymFlex and fitness funding, and much more! You will be supported in both personal and professional development and will be supported in achieving corporate membership of relevant institutions (RTPI etc).

Job Description:

• Acting as Planning Lead on projects across a range of markets and sectors.
• Prepare and implement planning strategies to deliver projects and development proposals & delivering high quality advice, reports and presentations based on sound and robust quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Drafting, checking and reviewing high quality supporting reports & negotiation of planning submissions successfully through the consenting process.
• Develop client network and collaborate with colleagues across the company to win work including through formal tenders and bids & manage project inputs from other technical disciplines within the company and external consultants.

Candidate Requirements:

• A relevant Planning degree and full RTPI Chartered membership is desirable.
• Detailed relevant experience working in consultancy, a local authority planning team, or similar.
• A sound, in-depth knowledge of planning law and procedures and sound commercial awareness and proven ability to manage project budgets.
• Proven experience in managing and delivering multi-disciplinary projects; ability and aptitude to work alongside and coordinate internal and external technical specialists.
• Proven experience of building successful relationships with internal and external stakeholders along with ability to check and review complex documents and summarise and present key issues concisely, understandable to non-specialists.

Interested?

For enquiries and more information, please contact Megan Field on (url removed), or call (phone number removed). For applications, please apply above!