Associate to Senior Associate Planner -… at Montagu Evans · London

Overview

THE FIRM

Montagu Evans is an independent, market leading property consultancy. Headquartered in London with offices in Scotland and Manchester. Our work encompasses planning and development, specialist valuations and transactions across the United Kingdom.

We’re a group of people that are excellent individually and exceptional together. We’re people that care about people, not just bricks and mortar. We care about our legacy, we create spaces that people use to live, work, communicate and connect.

We’re a partnership and the people who run the business are empowered to create their own teams to exceed our client’s requests. This highly flexible and collaborative approach, tailoring the talent to the complexity of the work, has enabled us to develop an exceptional business that has spanned over a century. A dedicated, conviction led strategy for growth has been adopted for the next five years meaning it is a particularly exciting time to join us.

We encourage an honest and straight forward approach to our work and relationships. We embrace individuality, whilst relying on working together and never accepting the status quo.

We give everyone the opportunity to be the best version of themselves. We trust and support each other. We recognise that our people are the heart of our success and only by identifying, supporting and promoting them will we be able to provide continued outstanding client service.

Montagu Evans is committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. One that embraces everyone. Read more here https://www.montagu-evans.co.uk/about/diversity/

THE TEAM

Planning is one of the largest departments at Montagu Evans and one of the biggest Planning departments operating in the UK.

Our Commercial Planning Team advises many of the country's leading developers, operators, financial institutions and landowners on: retail and leisure, industrial and logistics, data centres, life sciences and other R&D (including advanced manufacturing) roadside services and town centre regeneration.

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to work across a variety of projects within the commercial sector with a particular focus on: retail and leisure, industrial and logistics and data centres.

Our clients in these sectors include the likes of: Realty Income, British Land, The Crown Estate, M&S, CyrusOne, CloudHQ, Greystoke Land, Siemens, Royal London, Redevco, The Arch Company and Mileway.

We are a team led by six partners and are looking for people who want to share our dedication to client service and our ambition to grow. Montagu Evans has a strong track record of supporting career development with many of our Partners having started their career journey as graduates.

OVERVIEW

The role will offer the right candidate a great career opportunity to work within a busy and growing team. The successful candidate will work for multiple partners on a variety of commercial projects to help provide a wide breadth of experience and an opportunity to develop specialisms of interest. All team members have the opportunity of direct contact with clients, other professionals and local authorities, to provide exceptional career development.

Responsibilities

Depending on the level of the position, responsibilities may include: • Working with Partners and independently to help develop planning strategies, prepare programmes and lead external project teams; • Drafting and reviewing reports, co-ordinating the preparation and submission of planning applications / appeals / representations; • Providing planning advice to clients and leading internal and external meetings (e.g. project team and LPA). • Contributing towards client development and growth by building individual and the team profile in target sectors both internally and externally. • Setting effective fees and overseeing budgets to help maintain profitability of projects. • Contributing to the development and training of planner and senior planners within the team. • Input into team practices (including integration of AI and new working tools) and thought leadership as part of a compressive approach to continued professional development.

Qualifications

• Commercially minded planner with a clear focus on client service delivery. • Some experience in retail policy assessments preferred. • RTPI and / or RICS (P&D) qualified; • A team player who enjoys working collaboratively within a teams and across departments; • Strong analytical skills to provide an evidenced based approach to problem solving; • A good communicator, both written and verbal.