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Landscape Design Lead

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Landscape Design Lead
Location: Chester / Manchester / Newcastle (Hybrid Working Available)

Are you a talented and ambitious Landscape Architect ready to lead and inspire?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Landscape Design Lead to join a dynamic and growing landscape team. You'll play a key role in developing and managing a diverse portfolio of landscape design projects, consolidating an established team, and expanding an impressive client base.

The Role:
As the Landscape Design Lead, you will:

  • Lead and deliver high-quality landscape design projects across a range of scales and sectors.
  • Manage projects from initial concept through to on site delivery, ensuring adherence to quality, time, and budget expectations.
  • Work collaboratively with clients, planners, engineers, and internal multidisciplinary teams.
  • Support and grow the landscape design portfolio, including work with major infrastructure and flood defence projects.

About You:

  • Chartered Landscape Architect with strong design and implementation experience.
  • Skilled in project management from inception to completion.
  • Excellent communication and team leadership skills.
  • Practical experience working with the Environment Agency is advantageous but not essential.

Why Join Us?

  • Highly competitive salary and annual bonus scheme.
  • Pension contributions, private healthcare, and payment of professional fees.
  • Flexible working opportunities: work from home and from offices in Chester, Manchester, or Newcastle.
  • A supportive, people-first culture with a focus on work-life balance.
  • Recently transitioned to an Employee Ownership Trust, offering additional benefits such as tax-free bonuses.

Take the next step in your career in an environment where your ideas and leadership will shape the future.

About us: Allen & York have been matching purposeful people with purpose-led organisations for 30 years. We partner with our clients and candidates on roles that build an understanding of climate change, promote sustainability and create inclusive and responsible organisations, working towards a sustainable world for us all. Committed to inclusiveness in the workplace, we aim to increase diversity across all areas and therefore welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, or whether or not they have a disability. Let's help build a better world, together.

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