66 City Planning jobs in the United Kingdom

Planning Consultant - Rural Surveying

Location: Newcastle

Contract Type: Permanent

Our client is a leading property consultancy with a strong reputation across Northern England. They are looking for a Rural Surveyor with an interest in planning to join their Newcastle team as a Planning Consultant.

Position Overview

In this role, you will manage complex planning applications and develop new business opportunities. You will provide first-class advice to a range of clients, contributing directly to the success and growth of the planning team within this respected consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Secure new business opportunities and clients.
• Project manage complex planning applications.
• Manage and mentor junior planning consultants.
• Respond to development plan consultations.
• Provide expert planning advice to clients.
• Help build a positive and successful team.

Requirements

• A Rural Surveyor background with an interest in planning.
• Experience in development management and EIA.
• Commercially aware with strong networking skills.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Organised, self-motivated and performance-driven.

Benefits

• A supportive and flexible working environment.
• A generous leave allowance of 28 days plus bank holidays.
• Company, team, and individual bonus schemes.

How to Apply

If you are ready to take the next steps in your career and discuss the opportunity further then we would love to hear from you. To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter to Miranda Webster at Feel free to reach out to Miranda directly for more information about the role or other opportunities.

Planning Consultant - Rural Surveying

Location: Newcastle

Contract Type: Permanent

Our client is a leading property consultancy with a strong reputation across Northern England. They are looking for a Rural Surveyor with an interest in planning to join their Newcastle team as a Planning Consultant.

Position Overview

In this role, you will manage complex planning applications and develop new business opportunities. You will provide first-class advice to a range of clients, contributing directly to the success and growth of the planning team within this respected consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Secure new business opportunities and clients.
• Project manage complex planning applications.
• Manage and mentor junior planning consultants.
• Respond to development plan consultations.
• Provide expert planning advice to clients.
• Help build a positive and successful team.

Requirements

• A Rural Surveyor background with an interest in planning.
• Experience in development management and EIA.
• Commercially aware with strong networking skills.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Organised, self-motivated and performance-driven.

Benefits

• A supportive and flexible working environment.
• A generous leave allowance of 28 days plus bank holidays.
• Company, team, and individual bonus schemes.

How to Apply

If you are ready to take the next steps in your career and discuss the opportunity further then we would love to hear from you. To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter to Miranda Webster at Feel free to reach out to Miranda directly for more information about the role or other opportunities.

Join a fast-growing Platinum Workday Partner recognised for delivering innovative cloud-based solutions on Adaptive Planning. They are passionate about empowering organisations through technology, driving digital transformation, and building lasting client relationships. As part of their expanding Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) practice, they are seeking experienced consultants who are eager to make an impact with one of the market’s leading planning solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver and support end-to-end Workday Adaptive Planning implementations, from initial discovery through to deployment.
• Engage with clients to gather and analyse business requirements, translating them into practical and scalable EPM solutions.
• Develop and configure planning models for budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning , and financial reporting .
• Develop integrations between Adaptive Planning and ERP/HCM systems.
• Deliver user training, documentation, and post-implementation support.
• Contribute to internal best practices, accelerators, and methodology improvements within the EPM practice.
• Collaborate with project managers, finance leaders, and technical specialists to ensure successful outcomes for clients.

Requirements:

• Proven consulting experience implementing or supporting an EPM/CPM tool, such as Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, OneStream, Vena, Tagetik, or Oracle PBCS.
• Minimum 1-2 years’ experience in a client-facing consulting or solution delivery role.
• Strong FP&A domain knowledge , including planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical mindset with a proactive, problem-solving approach.
• Background in management consulting, finance transformation, or system implementation.
• Experience in SaaS environments and cloud-based tools.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field (professional accounting qualification or MBA advantageous).
• Full UK driving licence and ability to travel for work.

• Design, configure, and maintain Adaptive Planning models , dashboards, reports, and templates.
• Partner with Finance, FP&A, and business teams to gather requirements and build effective planning solutions.
• Manage and optimise integrations between Adaptive Planning and enterprise systems (e.g., Workday Financials).
• Lead end-to-end implementation projects , managing project timelines, risks, and quality assurance.
• Support forecasting, budgeting, and reporting initiatives to enhance financial insight and control.

• Strong understanding of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.
• Proficiency in Adaptive Planning configuration , report design, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with model building, data integrations, and automation .
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Collaborative and adaptable, able to partner across finance and IT functions.
  

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Due to a significant increase in planning policy project wins and new opportunities, we are looking to recruit a consultant planner. You will be joining a great team; you will have an interesting and diverse workload and you will be given the opportunity to make the most of your abilities.

You will work on key planning policy projects, working alongside multi-disciplinary teams and engaging directly with clients and stakeholders to secure successful planning outcomes. There will also be opportunities to work on infrastructure and development projects within the Planning team.

Here's what you'll do:

Planning Strategy and Expertise

• Carry out research and analysis for planning policy projects
• Assist on elements of policy projects, including supporting local authority policy and strategy development, local plan evidence studies, strategic growth studies, infrastructure strategies and other policy and strategy commissions.
• Assist in formulating strategic planning advice to other client and internal teams.
• Provide effective representation for the organisation, developing and managing relationships with clients, local authorities and other stakeholders through project work and through attendance at conferences and other networking events.
• Sharing technical knowledge and excellence.

Project Management

• Assist Project Managers to ensure projects are delivered successfully on budget and within programme timelines.
• Assist in coordinating multi-disciplinary teams for seamless project execution.
• Implement and uphold quality assurance and health and safety principles.

Business Development

• Contribute to the business development strategy where required
• Assist in the preparation of commercial tenders to secure new opportunities.

Does this sound like something you can do, and do well? If so, read on…

About our team

AECOM is a top ten UK planning consultancy by size, employing around 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 other related disciplines, including masterplanning, landscape, environment, sustainability, transport and economics. Examples of our project work include:

• Sub-Regional Spatial Plans - AECOM is a leading provider of sub-regional growth studies and evidence base for plans and policy (including our strategic planning work in the OxCam Arc, Thames Estuary, Hertfordshire and the East Midlands). For many years, we have also been thought leaders and enablers for new communities and Garden Towns (including research for MHCLG, Local Government Association and Town and Country Planning Association).
• Local Plans – Providing local planning authorities with local plan evidence and support is a key area in the policy team. We have worked on the local plans of over 100 authorities in the last decade. This includes the full range of evidence base studies, secondments, critical friend support and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to provide evidence to inform and test planning policy at all stages of plan-making.
• Strategic Masterplans - We have masterplanned new Garden Communities totalling almost 100,000 homes (with current examples including Southern Manydown in Basingstoke and Naas North West Quadrant in Ireland). Our work continues to create places where people want to live and invest over the long term.
• Neighbourhood Planning - Since 2011, we have supported several hundred local communities with their neighbourhood plan making. We offer expertise across all aspects of the plan-making process - from scoping and robust evidence base production to stakeholder engagement, appraisal and option development to plan production, design, delivery, adoption, monitoring; as well as overall project and process management.

Joining AECOM will provide you with opportunities for career progression within a positive culture where learning and development is actively supported and promoted.

Come grow with us.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Experience

• Relevant experience of contributing to planning policy and strategy development in a consultancy or public sector role.

Client & Stakeholder Relations

• Client focus, with good interpersonal skills and a collaborative working approach.
• A business development mindset, ideally with some experience of work winning and developing relationships with existing and new clients.

Skills

• Ability to produce high quality technical reports and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure.

Quality & Commitment

• High level of commitment to quality.

Education & Professional Memberships

• Degree in Town Planning or a related discipline, and membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or equivalent professional body, or working towards membership.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (annemarieflynn).

About AECOM

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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. 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. Please let us know using this email address if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Role:
Financial Planning Consultant with Adaptive Modeling experience

Responsibilities:

• Design, configure, and maintain Adaptive Planning models, dashboards, reports, and templates

• Collaborate with finance, FP&A, and other business teams to gather requirements and translate them into effective planning solutions

• Manage and optimize integrations between Adaptive Planning and other enterprise systems, such as Workday Financials

• Lead end-to-end implementation projects, manage project risks, resources, and quality assurance

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong understanding of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes

• Proficiency in configuring models, reports, and integrations, as well as troubleshooting system issues

• Adaptive Insights

Desirable Knowledge:

• Credibility with senior stakeholders

• This individual will collaborate with stakeholders across different teams to ensure that the needs of a wide range of internal customers are being met.

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