An exciting opportunity to join as a Team Administrator in our Planning Team based in Birmingham.

Role Overview : 

To provide support to the Planning team comprising of 10 fee earners and supporting a wider admin team across the Birmingham Office. As part of a fast-paced professional and corporate environment. This role requires someone who is proactive, well organised and diligent and has an eye for detail.  

Team Overview : 

The successful candidate would work within the Savills Birmingham Planning Team providing planning services to a wide range of clients in the Midlands. The team’s reach is diverse, with a strong pipeline of Regionally significant projects including Government-backed Garden Villages, Strategic Urban Extensions, major urban mixed-use. 

In addition to a wide ranging rural / land owner estate portfolios. We work for a wide variety of high profile clients, spanning landowners, private individuals, institutions, developers, promoters, national and regional house builders, commercial/leisure operators and investors.

Key Responsibilities :

• Providing full administrative and technical support to the team of 10 planners
• Diary management (awareness of team availability), arranging meetings and booking meeting rooms.
• Typing and formatting of letters/reports/tenders/emails
• Raising fee invoices and management of the team’s billing process including project and team wide fee spreadsheets.
• Managing the preparation of the team’s weekly work list schedule in advance (completion by the end of the previous week) of weekly team meetings.

Key Skills : 

• Excellent administration and time management skills
• Excellent IT skills – Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication skills (on the telephone, in person and by email)
• Accurate typing skills
• Highly numerate and comfortable with managing financial spreadsheets
• Be willing to learn new IT programmes relevant to Savills operations and to impart this knowledge on the team where relevant.
• Enthusiasm to do a good job in a fast paced, professional and corporate environment.
• Proactive, assertive and self-motivated
• Excellent organisational and prioritising ability
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and positively embraces the use of a telephone.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent ability to work flexibly and multi-task
• Must be a team player but also have the ability to use own initiative
• Dependable – team can rely on candidate to produce work to deadlines and be communicative.
• Ability to work under pressure and key deadlines
• Resilient personality and possess a natural ability to get on with other people

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