Creative Lead

Overview

BDP has a dedicated Cities and Places team within its London Studio. This studio brings together the expertise of urban designers, landscape architects and urban planners to deliver imaginative masterplans, regeneration and placemaking projects.

Cities and Places is an integral part of BDP’s multi‑disciplinary offer, with a strong external profile and reputation, working with public and private sector clients.

Leading the design process with accountability to the relevant Director for effective delivery of the creative aspect of each project to meet the Client brief and deliver a high level of design on all projects.

Participate in client meetings and confirm understanding of the Client’s project goals/requirements and communicate that to team members.

Management of creative skills within the team to engender collaboration and mentoring to all design staff. Manage programme development and feasibility studies. Oversee the design process from initial concept and space planning through to detail design.

Overview all external providers for visuals, imagery and all aspects of the creative process. Lead the design team members to achieve high standards. Oversee the production and delivery of detailed scale drawings for design and construction of developed project.

Provide project team co‑ordination for finish plans, specifications and material selections required for construction.

BDP is a multi-disciplinary award-winning design practice, established in the UK in 1961 and now a worldwide practice with more than 1,200 professional staff in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and North America.

BDP’s work covers all major development sectors, from Cities & Places to Retail, Education, Housing, Healthcare, Mixed‑Use, Transport, Workplace and Leisure.

We also have particular strengths in master planning and sustainability and are leading users of BIM in the design industry.

Our Cities & Places Team works across all sectors in the early stages of large-scale projects and masterplans establishing visions, design principles and development parameters with local authorities and private developers, with a specific focus on urban regeneration and sustainable mixed‑use development.

You are an experienced and creative practitioner, with a professional degree in architecture or urban design and extensive experience working in design practice.

Your creative approach to master planning and placemaking, combined with an understanding of socio‑economics and excellent hand drawing and associated technical skills are required for this role.

You are passionate about cities and able to communicate exciting design ideas through a range of graphic styles and mediums.

You like to take initiative whilst working in a team, and you are not worried about completing tasks under tight timescales, whilst monitoring goals.

As an enthusiastic team player, you will enjoy working and mentoring in a collaborative environment and demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels and backgrounds, including other professionals from other disciplines, clients and the wider community.

In return, BDP can offer you a wide range of learning opportunities to encourage personal and professional career development. From sponsorship to profession‑led CPD events, we also offer annual appraisals and a mentoring scheme supported by our internal online learning platform.

We are committed to being an employer of choice and offer a competitive remuneration and benefits package that includes an employee profit share scheme, tax‑efficient smart benefits, private medical insurance, life insurance, long term sickness insurance, interest‑free season ticket loans, health screening, the opportunity to buy/swap holidays and enhanced maternity and paternity provision.

We offer regular international and studio‑based social, sporting and charitable events, including monthly socials, a hiking club, wellbeing webinars and toolbox talks.

BDP is actively fostering an inclusive organisation where people can be themselves and everyone has a sense of belonging. We want our teams to be diverse at every level, reflecting the communities we design for. As designers, we will create spaces for all that promote equity, wellbeing and participation within the built environment.

We actively encourage people from a variety of backgrounds with different skills, professional and life experiences to join us and help us to achieve our aspirations. We also welcome applications from candidates who wish to work flexibly. BDP operates a hybrid working policy, usually three days in the office and two days working from home.

No agency or third‑party applications please.