Lead Director - Planning - Birmingham
FutureGen Recruitment • birmingham, england • Posted July 01, 2026
About the Role
Employer: Our client — a national, multi-disciplinary planning & development consultancy
Location: Birmingham (city centre) | Hybrid
Shape the West Midlands growth story.
Our client is seeking a commercially minded Lead Planning Director to head up and grow their Birmingham planning presence. You’ll lead strategy, win and deliver complex schemes, and knit together a first-rate, in-house team spanning transport, heritage & townscape, design, EIA/socio-economics, engagement and sustainability —giving clients a genuinely integrated offer from vision to permission.
Why this is different
True multi-disciplinary muscle: Work shoulder-to-shoulder with specialists across engagement, transport, heritage/townscape, design and impact management—accelerating problem-solving and outcomes.
Innovation built-in: Tap an internal futures/innovation team using tech, data and new ways of...