Heritage Director(s) - London and Manchester in City of London

We are seeking exceptional Heritage specialists with strong local knowledge and a passion for place to drive our growth in London / the South and Manchester / the North West. Our work is varied and includes residential developments, renewable energy schemes, sports stadia, tall buildings, town/city centre regeneration projects, and commercial development. There are two roles, one to be based from our London office and another from the Manchester office, with flexibility to work across projects nationally, as needed.

This is an exciting time to join Turley’s Heritage, Townscape and Landscape team. You’ll help lead a dynamic group that strives for excellence and proactively responds to opportunities in the development sector—delivering some of the UK’s most interesting and high-profile projects.

We are looking for 2no. highly motivated, experienced and dedicated Heritage Directors to join our Heritage, Townscape and Landscape team to drive our growth from our London and Manchester offices, and to lead on delivering exciting projects. In this role you will:

• Promote and deliver our heritage services, working closely with other heritage, landscape and townscape specialists and collaborating with wider Turley services.
• Provide strategic and commercially informed built heritage advice to clients on complex and high profile projects, underpinned by sound judgement and expert assessment.
• Deliver and effectively oversee the highest standard of heritage assessment and be proficient in preparing and reviewing assessments of significance and impact as well as Environmental Impact Assessment.
• Adept in positively engaging with statutory bodies and stakeholders, including conservation officers and Historic England.
• Prepare evidence for planning appeals and act as built heritage expert witness at Hearings and Public Inquiries.
• Contribute to the success of our service, as part of the leadership team, through work-winning, being a trusted advisor to clients, robust financial stewardship and proactively assisting with the development and wellbeing of our people.
• Be proactive in the marketplace, profile-raising and doing business development in your own way to find new work and retain clients.
• Take a proactive approach to developing others, including through effective delegation and line management.
• There are also opportunities to support wider team and company strategies and initiatives aligned with personal interest.

With teams in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Cambridge, Turley Heritage, Townscape and Landscape is respected across the UK for their reputation in delivering expert and robust advice as trusted advisors to clients and promoting development based on informed, well-considered and sound justification.

The ideal candidates will:

• Be an exceptional heritage professional with a strong track record and reputation in heritage advice and assessment and the planning and development process in a consultancy environment.
• Have a commercial mindset with a strong track record of business development and work winning.
• Have excellent project management experience (both time and resource) of delivering large, complex and high-value projects.
• Have strong leadership and line management skills, including delegation, a commercial outlook, robust financial stewardship, client contact, liaison/negotiation with co-consultants/planning stakeholders etc.
• Have knowledge/experience of closely related townscape/landscape disciplines.
• Have a strategic outlook, bringing energy, ideas, and positivity.
• Be resilient and be able to work independently.
• Have developed strong relationships within their network of clients and contacts.
• Be a team player, one who enjoys working with and takes pride in developing others.
• Having experience in sustainability/NZI field would be a further advantage.
• Additionally, a relevant qualification and IHBC membership or membership of another relevant professional body would be preferred.

If you think that Turley could be the right move for you, please apply in confidence by following the Apply Now link below or email careers@turley.co.uk, providing your CV and a covering letter. We welcome applications directly, and would prefer not to receive CVs from recruitment agencies. The successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK/Ireland by the start of their employment. Our aim is to be an even more diverse and inclusive company; we celebrate difference and we’re actively building more diverse teams. We welcome applications from candidates regardless of background and personal circumstances who meet the criteria set out above. We would love for you to join an organisation that enables you to thrive. If you need any assistance during the recruitment process or we can put in any adjustments for you, please contact Turley’s People & Culture team (careers@turley.co.uk).