Careers

ABOUT PLANNING AND DESIGN GROUP

Planning and Design Group (P&DG) are a Town Planning and Urban Design Consultancy involved within the construction and development industry across the UK.  We continue to have a considerable increase in workload across multiple clients, sectors, and geographic spread. We have been in business since 2012 with aspirations of further growth, our business has evolved significantly over the last few years, and we are now looking for a new member of the team to help take us into the next stage.

Our head office is in the NG15 area of Nottinghamshire with other offices in Oxford and London.  Due to our high workloads, we sometimes struggle in promoting our success, skills, professional team, and overall brand.  As part of our continued planned growth, we need the full-time support of a Marketing Assistant or a more experienced Marketing Executive to form part of the wider professional team. The position will be based in Nottinghamshire, but will involve the promotion of the business across all offices.

Our team has a diverse range of skills and expertise in town planning, heritage, urban design, master planning, Environmental Impact Assessments, education, and public consultation, amongst many others.  Our projects cover the entire range of planning and development for both public and private sector clients across the UK with higher concentrations of projects around the Midlands, Oxford, and London.

Our wide client base offers team members the chance to be challenged with varied workloads, regular new professional experiences, on the job training and personal development.  We have a high level of staff retention through positive teamwork, flexible and rewarding working practices and continued opportunity for progression. We are an equal opportunities employer.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The main purpose of this newly created role is to work closely with the Managing Director, the Office Manager, and members of the wider professional team to push forward our business and marketing plan, support the team in following up leads and opportunities, create regular updates and engaging content for our company’s website, newsletters, and social media. In addition, you will be involved with marketing events and activities along with some support around projects such as planning consultation.  Other activities could include preparing and updating staff CV’s, bid document support, preparing case studies, flyers, brochures, and assistance with presentation preparation.  With growing experience of the business this role could allow somebody to develop a role further in wider Business Development.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & CAPABILITIES

• Social media, Communications, Marketing Degree or equivalent
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of social media platforms
• Good understanding of relevant IT/Graphic Design
• Computer literate, being fully competent in the use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to prepare presentations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail and Proofreading
• Work as part of team
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and resourceful
• Inquisitive and have a willingness to learn
• Proactive and have a ‘can do’ attitude
• Can adapt to a range of situations
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Analytical skills and Idea presentation
• SEO and PPC
• Strong Customer-Service skills
• Reliable, diligent and self-aware
• Be an advocate for delivering exemplary client care
• Full clean driving licence

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage company social media channels, including LinkedIn, Twitter (now known as X), and other relevant platforms creating content that promotes the business, increases our presence, and engages client interest
• Regular website updates and links to social media
• Create dynamic social media posts using project images and video (as applicable)
• Optimise content using keywords, follow search engine optimisation (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC)
• Work as part of a team to develop social media promotions
• Analyse and report client information and demographics and success of existing social media projects
• Propose new ideas and concepts for social media content
• Work with team members and marketing to coordinate promotional documents with social media strategy including research, public consultation events
• Create and distribute e-newsletters to subscribers
• Manage social media communications including website
• Use timelines and scheduled content to create a consistent stream of new content for our clients while analysing, managing, and altering schedules where necessary to optimise visits
• Undertake any reasonable request from management and team
• Support the Office Manager as required

ADDITIONAL SKILLS & CAPABILITIES

• Previous experience in social media/marketing preferred but not essential
• Knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, InDesign would be useful

REMUNERATION

• Competitive market rate of pay
• Potential flexibility in core work hours
• Flexibility in working locations
• Minimum of 22 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Birthday Leave
• Health Insurance
• Company Pension Scheme
• Payment of one professional membership, others considered on merit
• Discretionary leave days over the Christmas & New Year Period
• Potential performance bonus
• We also enjoy a high level of staff retention through being a dynamic close-knit and friendly team with a flexible caring attitude

HOW TO APPLY

• Please submit a covering letter and CV to careers@panddg.co.uk 
• To arrange an informal discussion with Richard Hall please e-mail jayne.horne@panddg.co.uk
• In addition to the requested covering letter and CV, we will also accept a modest amount of additional material to support your application, for example previous work that is in the public realm. All material will be deleted post recruitment process