Senior Planner

Knight Frank is looking to hire a Senior Planner.

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The Role

Senior Planner within the Knight Frank South West Planning and Development team working on the on-going delivery of client projects in a fast moving, client focussed commercial environment.

The candidate will be highly motivated and a charted town planner (MRTPI), with at least two years post qualification experience.

In their current role, the candidate will deliver a wide range of projects, and demonstrate the highest quality of client care.

The role will involve:

• Providing planning advice and consultancy services to colleagues and private sector clients.
• Working within an established team to manage a range of medium and large-scale planning projects to a high standard. This will involve day-to-day responsibility for planning applications, planning project management and site promotion.
• Preparing planning pre-applications, applications, planning statements and planning representations of varying scales
• Writing reports, interpreting data, and making recommendations
• Contributing to the preparation / editing of Design and Access statements and other supporting planning documents
• Liaising and negotiating with planning officers, employees of consultee organisations, third parties
• Ensuring compliance with local planning regulations
• Contributing to the profitability of the Knight Frank South West Planning and Development team
• Demonstrating Business Generation through effective client management, networking events and deploying planning expertise to identify short and long term development opportunities
• Supporting wider business development activities to help achieve business targets and objectives.  
• Carrying out business development activities including drafting proposals, tenders and regularly meeting with potential and existing clients.

The candidate should:

• Have excellent technical knowledge and experience of Town & Country Planning regulations and local planning policy.
• Be capable of setting out coherent planning strategies and fee proposals.
• Be able to manage internal and external project teams on behalf of clients.
• Have an understanding of development viability.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• An appetite to support more junior colleagues including mentoring, where appropriate, would be beneficial.

Candidates should demonstrate:

• Commercial awareness and the ability to work on own initiative.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• That they are consistently meeting (and exceeding) agreed fee income targets, and how they (can) contribute towards the profitability of the Knight Frank South West Planning and Development team. 
• Excellent standards of verbal and written communication.
• The development and sustaining of meaningful client relationships resulting in business generation.
• The ability to secure repeat business through effective and efficient client management.
• A level of professional conduct that is consistently evident through their contribution towards the Client Care programme where appropriate.
• That they have developed a profile within their chosen market(s).
• Good personal management skills with a well organised approach to their work and is seen as efficient both within the office and externally by clients.   
• That they comply at all times with best practice.
• A consistent professional approach to others internally and externally.
• A good work ethic.
• Confidence and capability in contributing to decision making both internally and externally.
• Contributing actively to the team spirit of the office.   
• Collaborative working.
• Positive interaction with support staff and works with them in a professional and courteous manner at all times.

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Please note: this is a Direct Search led by Knight Frank. Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs, even if provided by PSL agencies.