The Role
Strutt & Parker is seeking a highly motivated and accomplished Senior Planner to join our Planning Department. The successful candidate will work on a variety of interesting projects and will support senior colleagues with the preparation and management of planning applications, appeals and other consent routes, providing commercial planning advice to clients, and assisting with site promotion, with the aim of taking the lead on small-scale projects where appropriate.
Responsibilities:
• Preparation of planning appraisals, identifying development potential and providing planning strategy advice.
• Preparation, submission and coordination of various planning applications appeals, and development plan representations, ensuring high-quality end-to-end execution.
• Provide professional planning advice, applying current policy and legislation to achieve positive outcomes for clients.
• Coordinate a range of projects, managing external consultants and client needs to ensure deadlines are consistently met.
• Produce a high standard of written work, including detailed planning statements, appeal submissions, and local plan representations.
• Maintain a proactive high level of client care, serving as a reliable point of contact for key stakeholders.
• Support the identification of new business opportunities to help grow the client base and enhance the firm's reputation, attending external events where appropriate.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with local planning authorities, consultants, and professional advisors.
• Collaborate with internal teams to share knowledge, support colleagues, and assist in identifying potential business opportunities.
• Manage project time and budgets effectively to ensure operational efficiency.
• Meet the required billing targets and chargeable hour expectations for your respective job level.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
• Prior experience working in planning, ideally within the private sector, but not essential.
• Experience in both development management and development plan site promotion
• Ability to work in a team environment and able to manage competing demands and prioritise tasks for themselves and others with the key aspect being to meet clients’ expectations.
• Must be a problem-solver and advocate ideas and solutions clearly.
• Proactive and flexible attitude towards working and be self-motivated with a strong team spirit.
• Self-assured, confident, enjoy the prospect of developing own client base and making a real contribution to the prosperity of the Company and themselves.
• Ideally qualified with the RTPI or working towards qualification.
Skills
• Flexibility and agility – able to juggle a number of tasks at the same time.
• Initiative and motivation – thinking for themselves and working with minimal supervision.
• Awareness – able to identify limits of own abilities and seek help from colleagues where appropriate.
• Proactive – able to identify opportunities and constraints, and to think outside the box.
• Efficient and organised – able to effectively manage own time and budgets.
• Commercially astute – able to recognise clients’ varying needs.
• Pursues excellence – seeks to provide a high quality of work and keen to improve skills.
• Excellent research and analytical skills
• Excellent IT skills including use of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Internet
We are proud to offer award-winning benefits to support and reward our employees:
• Heath & Leisure: Health Cash Plan, 25 days annual leave + public holidays (the option of purchasing up to 5 additional days via flex benefits), health screening, gym discounts, wellbeing support, volunteering opportunities, cycle to work scheme, eye care voucher, travel & retail discounts, travel insurance, concierge service, kids pass, open fairways golf card, great company culture and social events (including sports teams, charity events, art pass), perks at work
• Financial: Pension, company car allowance, life assurance at 8 x basic salary, group income protection (long term disability insurance), interest free season ticket loan, bonus scheme - you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Scheme, share incentive plan, financial and mortgage advice
Strutt and Parker is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.
