Environmental Planning Director (Bristol)

Posted on: 22/03/2017 ~ Company:

Beach Baker are pleased to be working with one of the UK leading consultancies in their search for a Planning Director to join their Bristol office. This firm are a big name in planning consultancy and have a strong reputation across the country.

This is an exciting opportunity to help lead and develop the environmental planning team within this firm. Therefore, there are excellent progression opportunities and a great challenge to get stuck into. The team offer specialist advice across the environmental planning sector including (but not limited to) minerals and waste, energy and renewables. Many of these schemes are large, complex developments so it’s a really interesting workload.

We are looking for candidates with a similar project background coupled with significant private sector experience at either Associate or Director level, ideally this will have been in a planning or environmental consultancy environment. You should be MRTPI qualified and have at least 8-10 years’ experience. In addition to this, team management experience is advantageous and at this level you should be able to demonstrate a confident ability in business development backed up with a strong contact base in the sector. You should also ideally have some experience at Inquires and as an Expert Witness. All candidates need to be client facing, confident in their presentation and IT skills as well as being extremely organised, self-motivated and able to lead/motivate a team (including the financial/team budgets associated with this responsibility).

There are excellent rewards on offer for the successful candidate including a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus and uncapped progression opportunities.

To apply for this role or for more information, please contact Ruth Hoggett ([email protected]). By clicking apply, please be assured that your CV will not be sent to the client until you have been fully briefed on the role and given permission for us to do so. We will confidentially retain your details and inform you of any other suitable opportunities arising should you not be successful in this role.

Job Reference: RH/886225

Salary: £50000 - £80000 per annum + Benefits/Bonus

Salary per: Annum

Job Duration:

Job Start Date: ASAP

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