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About the Role
AECOM is seeking a senior planner to join their team, focusing on key planning policy projects. This role involves working with multi-disciplinary teams, engaging with clients and stakeholders, and contributing to infrastructure and development projects. The position offers opportunities for career progression and professional development within a dynamic global company.
Responsibilities
- Lead and assist on key planning policy projects, including supporting local authority policy and strategy development, coordination and delivery of local plan evidence studies, strategic growth studies, infrastructure strategies and other policy and strategy commissions.
- Offer strategic planning advice to other client and internal teams.
- Provide effective representation for the organisation, developing and managing relationships with clients, local authorities and stakeholders.
- Share technical knowledge and excellence.
- Ensure projects are delivered successfully on budget and within programme timelines.
- Assist in coordinating multi-disciplinary teams for seamless project execution.
- Contribute to deliverables produced by the planning policy team.
- Implement and uphold quality assurance and health and safety principles.
- Contribute to the business development strategy, nurturing client relationships.
- Lead and assist in the preparation of commercial tenders to secure new opportunities.
Requirements
- Significant relevant experience of leading and contributing to planning policy and strategy development in a consultancy or public sector role.
- Client focus, with good interpersonal skills and a collaborative working approach.
- Existing relationships with clients and local authorities.
- A business development mindset, with demonstrable experience of work winning and developing relationships with existing and new clients.
- Ability to produce high quality technical reports and excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure.
- High level of commitment to quality.
- All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
Skills
- Technical reports
- Communication skills
- Working on own initiative
- Working under pressure
- Client relationships
- Stakeholder engagement
- Strategic planning advice
- Project management
- Quality assurance
- Health and safety principles
- Business development
- Tender preparation
Location
- London Aldgate
- Bristol
- Manchester
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree in Town Planning or a related discipline
- Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or equivalent professional body
Benefits
- Compensation, benefits and well-being programs
- Access to industry-leading technology and thinking
- Work flexibility
About the Company
- AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management.
- On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.
- Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.
- AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.
- AECOM is a top ten UK planning consultancy by size, employing more than 70 Chartered or Licentiate Planners.
- The AECOM Planning Practice projects include some of the largest, most complex and high profile development and regeneration projects in the UK for both public and private sector clients.
- We are a dynamic planning team and work closely with colleagues in different disciplines.
- Joining AECOM will provide you with opportunities for career progression within a positive culture where learning and development is actively supported and promoted.
Equal Opportunity
- We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team.
- We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities.
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.