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About the Role
This is a key role working directly with the Director/Board Sponsor and Regional leads combining specialist sector knowledge, design leadership, project delivery, and work-winning to help expand our residential portfolio throughout the regions. This is an exciting opportunity to play a central role in refining and shaping HLM’s residential offer across a variety of residential typologies.
Responsibilities
- Support the Director/Board Sponsor in delivering the sector strategy
- Provide leadership and specialist expertise to support work winning across the regional studios
- Contribute to business development activities, bids, and client engagement
- Identify new opportunities and support pipeline development
- Lead and contribute to the design of HLM’s residential projects, with a focus on place-making and design excellence
- Apply sector-specific knowledge to develop innovative, practical solutions
- Champion best practice, standardisation, and continuous improvement across projects
- Support the development of high quality designs and technical standards
- Act as project lead and senior team member on residential projects
- Ensure delivery to programme, budget, and quality expectations
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams
- Lead stakeholder engagements, public consultations etc
- Share lessons learned and drive efficiencies across the sector
- Promote collaboration across Sectors, disciplines and regions
- Capture and share lessons learned from projects
- Contribute to innovation in design and sustainability
Requirements
- Qualified Architect (ARB/RIBA or equivalent)
- Minimum 5+ years’ post-qualification experience
- Proven experience designing and delivering residential projects across a range of tenures
- Strong design and technical capability
- Experience supporting bids, proposals, or client presentations
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience working within public sector frameworks
- Experience with HRB’s and gateway approvals
- Experience delivering projects incorporating MMC design principles
- Travelling between studios to support business growth
Skills
- Specialist sector knowledge
- Design leadership
- Project delivery
- Work-winning
- Place-making
- Design excellence
- Innovation
- Sustainability
- Stakeholder engagement
- Public consultations
Location
- Sheffield
- London
- Birmingham
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified Architect (ARB/RIBA or equivalent)
Benefits
- Award-winning lifestyle package
- Personal development through the HLM Academy
- Employee Owned Trust
About the Company
- UK & Ireland practice with strong connections across all of our studios in London, Sheffield, Cardiff, Glasgow, Plymouth, Birmingham, Belfast and Dublin.
- Work collaboratively as one team structured by sector, sharing resources, knowledge and skills.
- Ranked as one of the top 25 largest practices in the UK.
- AJ100 List of UK’s Top Architectural Practices 2025
- Best Companies Top 10 Best Mid-Sized Companies to work for 2025
- Shortlisted, AJ100 Awards – Employer of the Year 2025
- Shortlisted, Architect of Year Awards – Social Value Architect of the Year 2025
- Shortlisted, Architect of Year Awards – Employer of the Year 2025
- Highly Commended, MMC Awards – Architectural Practice of the Year 2025
Equal Opportunity
- HLM Architects is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
- Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging matter deeply to us. We want everyone to feel welcome and supported to thrive.
- If you need any adjustments to the application or interview process, just let our HR team know and we’ll be happy to support you.