Overview
Shop Design Planning Administrator – Birmingham, West Midlands
Vacancy Information
We have a fantastic opportunity to join the Shop Design team at Greggs as Shop Design Planning Administrator.
We can offer you:
- 21 days (4.2 weeks) annual leave, pro-rated, increasing with service, plus bank holidays and 1 additional floating day
- Colleague discount, up to 50% off our own-produced products
- Paid breaks
- Free hot drinks while on a shift break
- Profit share: We want everyone to share in the success of the business, so we distribute 10% of our profits to all our colleagues who have at least 6-month service, or more, each year
- Share save schemes that let you buy discounted Greggs shares, by saving a set amount of money over a fixed time, to have an even bigger share of our profits
- Career progression and learning and development
- Employee Assistance Programme; A free, confidential helpline, offering advice and support with financial, relationship, work-related and wellbeing issues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Including a mobile app providing a range of wellness content on physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing
- Perks and savings, such as digital gift card discounts, online cashback, in-store and online coupons and lifestyle offers
- A company who cares about our communities; the environment and being a better business! Click here to read about The Greggs Pledge
- Colleague Networks – internal groups where colleagues and their allies can share their own experiences, offer feedback on the way we do things at Greggs, and provide support to one another
About the role
What you’ll do
Working closely with the Shop Design Manager, Designers, Project Managers and other stakeholders the role is responsible for:
- Working closely with the design team, submit and monitor planning applications, including Shopfronts, HVAC, Air Conditioning, Advertising and Pavement Licences
- Maintain planning tracker and provide updates across the team where required on current status
- Liaise with external planning consultant to submit and monitor change of use applications
- Manage the building regulations compliance register to ensure building control certification are received in line with the new shop / refit opening programme.
- Liaise with Greggs approved building inspectors and local authority building inspectors where required
- Continually liaise with the internal design team and project managers to update on progress of projects
- Help support by arranging any supplementary reports and surveys to support planning submissions, which would include Noise, Odour, Acoustic surveys
- You will oversee multiple projects, track deadline and maintain detailed records/tracker
- Liaising with local authority planning representatives to help support additional requests for information
- Manage the workflow of design, planning, building regs orders, ensuring costs are signed off and capital orders raised, orders placed, and any queries dealt with in a timely manner
- Attend weekly design meetings and provide feedback/raise items where appropriate to ensure all stakeholders are kept up to date
- Communicate in a professional and timely manner, both within our own team, to our stakeholders both within the business and externally
- Working to tight and challenging deadlines aligned to the shopfitting process
About you
You will fit right into this role if you can demonstrate:
- Excellent planning and organising skills
- Ability to work under pressure and multitask
- Strong organisation and problem-solving skills
- A result focussed approach with excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively internally and externally. and the ability to influence others
- Computer literate in Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- Has a proven track record of working to tight deadlines
- Enjoy being part of a hard-working team and successful team, sharing end goals and celebrating results together
- Interested in further development relating to the Planning industry to aide job role development
- Want to develop and are ready to work alongside some great people and have lots of fun on your Greggs journey.
About Greggs
Here at Greggs, we love what we do, and we have fun! What makes Greggs so special is our culture – the way we are, the way we behave and the way we support each other. We’re hard-working, but above all else we’re family; and it doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from or what your favourite bake is, we’d love you to join us! We want everyone to feel welcome at Greggs and our colleagues to be able to be themselves at work, whatever their background, preferences, or views. We’ll make sure you have the skills and knowledge you need to have a great career with us.
