Senior Planner - Birmingham

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Role Purpose

The Midlands and South West Planning and Development team is jointly led by Senior Director Richard Brown and Director Simon Phillips and forms part of CBRE's national Planning offer. Our Midlands and South West team covers a broad geography, extending across the Midlands, South West and Wales working with colleagues in Bristol, Southampton, and Oxford. Our team of six comprises five qualified town planners and one graduate, we will be nine strong by autumn 2024, with further growth of the team planned to follow this.

Our team works on a variety of development management, strategic planning advisory, development promotion, infrastructure, economic development, regeneration, employment land, business case / funding and estate strategy projects. We currently advise on several high-profile large-scale planning projects, regeneration frameworks and masterplans led by private and public sector clients throughout the UK including several projects in Birmingham city centre.

You will be given the opportunity to work across the full range of development types, including residential, urban mixed use, commercial, industrial and logistics, education, healthcare, public sector, and infrastructure (primarily rail, airports and energy) development in a variety of brownfield and greenfield contexts. We work collaboratively on projects across the national planning teams, drawing on specialisms as projects require, providing a unique opportunity to develop a range of skills, working on a diverse portfolio of projects with planners and other specialist teams across the UK.

Our team has developed a compelling reputation in the market through its practical understanding, technical expertise and ability to deliver commercial solutions to complex planning issues. We have a strong pipeline of projects and works closely with colleagues across the CBRE business. Further details on the CBRE Planning team can be found at www.cbre.co.uk/planning

Key Responsibilities

• Provision of planning advice to external and internal clients across all sectors/ land uses in a range of brownfield and greenfield contexts.
• Supporting senior members of the team in preparing strategic and major applications or planning/ regeneration strategies, working alongside the lead Director and project manager.
• Preparation of Planning Appraisals, Local Plan Representations, Statements and Evidence documents, as appropriate, including analysis of planning policy and assessment of client proposals both against policy and other considerations.
• Advising and coordinating project outputs from a range of disciplines / professionals, working in a multidisciplinary design team including internal and external consultants.
• Management, including financial management, of projects including planning applications, planning appraisals, development plan representations, land promotion etc. You will be supported by the project lead.
• Strategic monitoring of local, regional and national planning policy and legislation.
• Mentoring junior members of the team through their APC qualification

Person Specification/Requirements

We are looking for a qualified Planner/Senior Planner (MRTPI or MRICS P&D) ideally with a minimum of 1-2 years post qualification experience to join our growing Planning and Development team. The role would suit candidates with previous planning consultancy experience, or those from a local authority Development Management or Planning Policy background at a comparable level.

Skills or qualities we are looking for include:

• Dynamic, enthusiastic, flexible, and commercially astute with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong focus on own professional skills and integrity.
• Experience of working on a range of either development planning/ infrastructure/ regeneration projects preferably in the Midlands but not essential, either within the private or public sectors.
• The ability to multi-task, work to tight timescales, often under challenging circumstances, with or without direct supervision and to a high standard.
• Willingness and/ or ability to identify and nurture new business opportunities.
• Willingness to continue learning new technical skills across the range of planning advisory that the team provides.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and analytical abilities.
• Prepared to contribute to CBRE's wider ESG agendas and contribute to internal and external networks.
• Capable of financial management and responsibility for project invoicing under the supervision of the project lead.

Working at CBRE

When you join CBRE you will have the support and resources of a global firm where an entrepreneurial mind-set is encouraged. You'll realise your potential with challenging work, fast-paced assignments, an environment of constant learning and commitment to results. To enable your success, we provide the best tools, training and leaders in the industry.

Our collaborative culture is built on our RISE values and reflects the needs and perspectives of our clients and our people. Our work is guided by our North Star: Creating the real estate solutions of tomorrow, so businesses and people thrive. This informs everything we do-from diversity, equity, and inclusion to sustainability initiatives to workplace safety and wellbeing.

At CBRE, we believe that the more perspectives we have, the more dimensions we see. We welcome people with different backgrounds and experiences across industries to apply for open positions even if you do not match every element of the required skills. To discover more about what it's like to work at CBRE, visit Life at CBRE

About CBRE

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2020 revenue). The company has more than 100,000 employees serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves a diverse range of clients with an integrated suite of services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services.

In the UK, we service our clients from our offices in Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Oxford and Southampton.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.