Savills
Associate Director - Planner

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Role Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director to join our Birmingham Planning Team in a strategic, managerial role to help win and deliver, a wide range of diverse and high profile projects. The Savills Birmingham Planning Team, which is one of the largest in the Region and regarded by our clients as a market leader, is an integral part of the biggest planning consultancy in the UK which is over 300 strong with planning specialists covering every land use sector and geographical area in the UK.
The role will include contributing to the setting of strategy, and as well as team management (operational and financial). The successful candidate will be required to contribute to the management of professional teams on projects, and co-ordination of their inputs, taking responsibility for projects from the earliest stages through to completion.
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Team Overview
The successful candidate would work within the Savills Birmingham Planning Team providing planning services to a wide range of clients in the Midlands. The team’s reach is diverse, with a strong pipeline of Regionally significant projects including Government-backed Garden Villages, Strategic Urban Extensions, major urban mixed-use and commercial, tourism and leisure, in addition to a wide ranging rural / land owner estate portfolios. We work for a wide variety of high profile clients, spanning landowners, private individuals, institutions, developers, promoters, national and regional house builders, commercial/leisure operators and investors.


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