Senior Planner / Associate Director - Planning

Job description

Role Purpose

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Planner / AD to join us and work on some major schemes with the team, whilst having a clear structured pathway for career development, along with experienced Director support.

The CBRE Planning team across the north is 20 strong and has four distinct core activities around Development Management, Development Promotion, Regeneration/Economics and Viability.

The team is involved in the largest planning/ development/ regeneration schemes across the North and our pipeline of new instructions for 2024 is substantial.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing planning advice to external and internal clients across all sectors/land-uses, with a focus on projects across the North.
• Being the day-to-day lead of major/complex applications and planning instructions, including coordination and project management and liaison with the lead Senior Director/Director and tasking junior members of the team as applicable.
• Preparing Planning Appraisals, Statements and Evidence documents, as appropriate, including analysis of planning policy and assessment of client proposals both against policy and other considerations.
• Undertaking planning due diligence.
• Preparing and coordinating planning appeals.
• Advising, directing and managing project outputs from a range of disciplines/professionals.
• Financial responsibility and management of projects.
• Identifying, developing and pursuing new business and marketing opportunities in a range of sectors.
• Mentoring of junior members of the team.

Person Specification/Requirements

• Professional Membership of either the RICS (P&D) or RTPI with relevant experience post qualification experience.
• Dynamic, enthusiastic, flexible and commercially astute with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong focus on own professional skills and integrity.
• The ability and confidence to engage directly with clients and be the primary point of contact on major projects.
• Manage and coordinate the input and activities of other professionals within project design teams, give advice and direction, and make decisions.
• Experience of working on major schemes either within the private or public sectors.
• The ability to multi-task, work to tight timescales, often under challenging circumstances, with minimal supervision and to a high standard.
• Willingness and/or ability to identify and nurture new business opportunities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and analytical abilities.
• Confident team player able to work well with colleagues and clients as well as manage, nurture and mentor junior members of the team.