Town Planner - London, United Kingdom - COWI

COWI

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Application deadline: 27 April United Kingdom - Location: London - Infrastructure & Transportation

Town Planner (Deputy Negotiations Lead)
London
Full Time Contract - 12 months
Office/Home Hybrid Working

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

To shape a future where people and societies grow and flourish, we are looking for a Town Planner to join our team.

The objective of this role is to support the Negotiations Team Lead, leading a team to manage the issues raised by Local Authorities.

You will be responsible for working with the Negotiations Team Lead to prepare and implement the engagement strategy.

This will include overseeing the logging, management, progression and reporting of issue resolution, managing governance requirements and overseeing the entering into of agreements.

This includes working with commercial support to ensure the client can confidentially enter into third party agreements
for the Lower Thames Crossing project (LTC).

Your key responsibilities will be:

Working with the Negotiations Team Lead to prepare and implement the engagement strategy
Working with negotiators to identify where agreements are required (Section 106 and others)
Progressing these agreements with the negotiators, legal team and planning team ensuring that the negotiations are kept up to date with the negotiators progress at the working level
To manage and track agreements across the local authorities' stakeholders
Supporting the negotiators by providing integration and issue escalation for issues.
Working with the Project Manager to manage the team resource planning, risk management and reporting.

To provide overarching management of the Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs), including ensuring alignment of provision across authorities and taking PPAs through the internal governance requirements.

Providing overall direction to the documentation of engagement sessions, including ensuring appropriate records are maintained within the organisation CRM database

To co-ordinate with the client on legacy/benefits and the communities' team on commitments to ensure that there the terms of each agreement mechanism are clear and do not conflict - ensuring the local authority stakeholders are also clear.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers.

Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you'll have:
Strong track record of stakeholder management within a large infrastructure project
Proven ability to lead negotiations successfully in challenging environments
Track record of working on commercial issues for infrastructure projects
Extensive experience of forming formal agreements with third parties within established parameters.
Previous demonstrated ability to handle and manage high volumes of varied work to short deadlines.
Demonstrable track record of communicating (verbally and in writing) complex information and negotiating with key statutory and commercial stakeholders.
A proven ability to contribute to and communicate a broader business perspective to align team effort with organisational objectives.

Demonstrable ability to engage and integrate with a broad range of people, both with internal and external stakeholder to achieve common goals.

Transactional knowledge (e.g., negotiating new and non-standard agreements, major amendments to existing agreements) in complex commercial agreements.

A place to work and so much more.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America, and India, we are currently 7,300 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy, and environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents
Flexible and hybrid working conditions
Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
Group personal pension scheme salary exchange
Life assurance
Cycletowork scheme
Corporate gym membership

As part of our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, we partner with the to recruit for a better gender balance in our teams.

Living up to our core values is a priority in the way we work. We collaborate with our customers, partne