Assistant Planning Consultant - 2027 Graduate Programme
Newmark · London
About the Team
Newmark's Planning and Development team is one of the UK's largest fully integrated planning and development advisory teams, with over 120 professionals including more than 70 planning consultants and 45 surveyors. The team advises leading UK and international owners, developers, investors, and occupiers on planning transactions, development appraisal, and strategic advice across offices, residential, mixed-use, retail, and cultural schemes throughout London and the UK.
You'll be joining a team working on some of London's most high-profile schemes, giving you broad exposure to major planning applications, strategic regeneration projects, and a real chance to develop into a chartered town planner.
Programme Overview
Newmark’s graduate planning programme is the perfect way to kickstart your career in town planning and development consultancy. You’ll gain hands-on experience across live planning projects, work with senior chartered town planners, and develop the skills and competencies needed to achieve your Chartered Town Planner (MRTPI) status through the Royal Town Planning Institute's accredited routes.
Why Join Newmark?
- Structured, mentored path to qualification - You'll work towards Chartered Town Planner (MRTPI) status with dedicated mentors, exposure across project types, and hands-on learning experiences designed to build technical capability from day one.
- Real responsibility, not just training - The programme is built around projects that challenge and inspire, with the autonomy to take initiative and the accountability to own your work — paired with regular 1:1 check-ins so you're never navigating it alone
- Global platform, local grounding - Based in our London West End office, you'll be part of one of the UK's largest integrated Planning and Development teams, with on-the-ground knowledge of Central London's planning environment.
- High-profile project exposure - Newmark's Planning and Development team advises on major London schemes, including strategic regeneration and master planning projects, so joining now means exposure to prestigious, high-impact work from an early stage.
Who We’re looking for
- Ambition and drive to excel, with a clear commitment to working towards Chartered Town Planner (MRTPI) status
- Strong analytical and research skills, comfortable working with planning policy, data, and development appraisals
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Commercial curiosity - an interest in London's planning environment and development landscape, and how policy and politics shape decision-making
- Initiative and accountability - the confidence to take ownership of tasks while knowing when to ask for guidance
Application Process
- Submit an online application including CV and answer a few short screening questions
- MS Teams interview with one interviewer
- In Person Interview with two assessors
- Assessment Centre – Interview and group task
Compensation & Benefits
We offer a supportive and rewarding environment ensuring that our graduates have the tools, guidance, and benefits needed to grow both personally and professionally.
- Competitive salary aligned with industry standards
- Performance related staff profit share scheme
- Wellbeing allowance which can be used for either physical or mental wellbeing activities
- 26 days’ holiday, plus Bank Holidays and days at Christmas and New Year.
- 1 paid volunteering day per year to help give back to our local communities
- Pension scheme membership (after initial probationary period)
- Access to Peppy for you and your partner
- Life and Accident insurance
- Group income protection scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Critical Illness Cover
- Wellbeing Allowance
- Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
- Interest Free Rental Deposit Loan
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after probation period
- Professional subscription (MRICS) paid for by the firm
Working Hours
The Firm’s core hours are from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. and you may choose to start and end your day around these hours, provided you still do your 7.25 hours per day (e.g. 8.00 am – 4.30pm, 10.00 am – 6.30 pm). This position also involves out of hours working on an ‘as necessary’ basis.
Who are Newmark? Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries (“Newmark”), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark’s comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform’s global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. For the twelve months ended September 30, 2024, Newmark generated revenues of approximately $2.6 billion. As of that same date, Newmark’s company-owned offices, together with its business partners, operated from nearly 170 offices with more than 7,800 professionals around the world. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark.