Vacancy: Design & Planning Manager
Closing date: Sunday 26 October 2025
Shortlisting: Monday 27 October 2025
Proposed Interview date: Monday 4 November 2025
Salary: £60,676
About the vacancy:
We are looking to appoint a Design & Planning Manager. Are you keen to ensure that play an instrumental part in the creation of well-designed homes and connected communities where everyone can live well?
In this role you can truly make a difference to the future of our homes and the customers who will reside within them.
Specifically:
The Design and Planning Manager role will sit within our Growth Directorate. This is a key, and exciting, role that will be responsible for ensuring that the homes provided by Hedyn (and Candleston) are of the highest design quality, meeting our commitments to sustainability, placemaking and through effective engagement and community centred design.
This role will ensure our homes are efficient in layout and design with site layouts shaped by balancing the needs of the communities we are working with, together with our Hedyn and statutory requirements. Working with our statutory partners you will identify delivery mechanisms that are collaborative, efficient and progress proposals as dynamically as possible.
(Please refer to the attached role profile for more information.)
For further information about the role, please contact
Application Process:
We require an application form to be completed for every role.
We do not require recruitment agency support at this time - all speculative CV's will be treated as a direct application.
Your Hedyn, our comprehensive benefits package:
We believe Hedyn is a great place to work and it's important to us that our people feel the same way.
As well as offering varied and fulfilling careers, we want every colleague to feel appreciated. That means having the best possible benefits package, the flexibility to maintain a great work-life balance and the opportunity to achieve your full potential.
Enhanced Pension Scheme:
We offer an attractive pension scheme with generous employer contributions.
Enhanced Annual Leave:
You'll start on 25 days annual leave (+ Bank Holidays) which would increase to 30 days following 3 years' service.
Agile Working Policy (dependent on role):
Hedyn work with the philosophy that 'work is something you do rather than somewhere you go.'
Health and Wellbeing:
We have many health and wellbeing policies and initiatives such as Cycle to Work and Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leave.
Development:
We offer many professional and personal development options such as paying for professional membership, sponsored study opportunities and career progression and development.
We want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.
If you are looking for your next career challenge, seeking responsibility, and are passionate about delivering the best possible service, we'd love to hear from you.
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