Senior Planner - Client Side

Job title: Senior Planner - Client Side
Location: Bristol
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 + Bonus + Car Allowance
The Company
Penguin Recruitment is delighted to be supporting a one of the UK's leading strategic land and planning promotion companies. My client promotes land through the planning system for predominantly residential and commercial schemes. Due to continued business growth and success, my client are expanding the team and have an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Planner at the Bristol office. This role is responsible for supporting the regional team with the appraising and promoting of land in order to deliver the strategic objectives of the region.
Key Accountabilities:

• Promote and manage projects on their course to Planning Permission. This will involve longer-term strategic promotion, and management of current and emerging planning applications
• Demonstrate a degree of personal ownership for specific sites / actions as agreed with the Senior Regional Team and / or more senior team members
• Support the team in researching and appraising specific site searching opportunities
• Appraise sites and make recommendations to the Senior Regional Team
• Prepare Planning submissions for agents and landowners by seeking input from the Senior Regional Team
• Prepare reports for consideration by the Senior Regional Team
• Work with external teams to compile the necessary Marketing and Sale material to allow opportunities to be sold once the optimum planning position has been achieved

The candidate:
The successful candidate will work within an environment of high motivation and productivity, maintaining effective working relationships and actively seeking recommendations for improvement. Ideally, you will have demonstrable experience in guiding, managing and/or deciding planning applications, and have experience of the Local Plan process, through promotion or contributions to drafting Local Plans. This is an exciting and varied opportunity and so you will need to be organised, flexible and respond well to new and changing situations. You will hold a relevant degree and ideally have experience in Planning and/or Development. The role requires travel throughout the southwest region. Being an RTPI member would be advantageous.
Interested?
The hiring manager is looking to meet with suitable candidates ASAP so if you meet the above criteria, please contact Josh Jones on 01792 365 000 or josh.jones@penguinrecruitment.co.uk