Associate Director
Salary - £60,000 - £65,500
Location - Leeds
About this job
If you weren’t held back by the effort it took to get you this far, would you wipe it all clean and start somewhere different? Your biggest problems as an Associate or Associate Director: Will you get to the next... Read More...
About this job
If you weren’t held back by the effort it took to get you this far, would you wipe it all clean and start somewhere different? Your biggest problems as an Associate or Associate Director: Will you get to the next step? Is it worth the effort? Will it take as long as your previous promotions? What activities do you need to focus on? Get better at? What do you need to achieve? Can your practice afford to promote you again or does it have the ‘space’ to promote you to Director? Promises are often made, then forgotten, or pushed back. The economy, clients and the fact that the people ahead of you aren’t retiring yet. If you worked here you wouldn’t have to start again and you’d no longer need to wonder about any of those things: 30% growth, year on year. Forget the economy. An increasingly design-led practice that has its designers and deliverers, its HR and finance teams, its bid, marketing teams and its business development group. A proper business in Architecture, without being a giant corporation. Where there are people to order the stationary, fix the IT problems, take the bins out. Where you can focus on being an Architectural professional. That’d be the perfect vehicle for most. You’d have your mentors. They’d make it clear what your path is, where you’re going and when you would achieve it. You’d work somewhere that isn’t remotely hand to mouth on finances or resources, where they do proper planning including succession planning. This is why they know that in 5 years there’ll be gaps. For you, it’s the kind of gap that might mean bigger, better and mortgage free homes, better education for the kids if you wanted, better cars, better holidays or second homes if that’s the dream. People get paid properly here. Including a bonus that’s more than worth having. Where you are isn’t necessarily where you need to end up. Imagine what you’d learn under the mentorship of someone that has adapted a business to 18 different sectors and gone from 3 to 300 in not much more than a decade. It’s no exaggeration to say that even your boss would learn a lot here. Your future could be so much brighter, in an environment you’d easily recognise and fit into: A well run Architectural Practice. You’ll need:- To be either an Architect or Technologist.
- The kind of Architect or Technologist that isn’t afraid of talking to clients.
- With a track record of winning and retaining clients, whether that’s through networking, bidding, competitions etc.
- That track record doesn’t have to be massive. It could be absolutely minimal. It’s important though that you’ve made a start and showed yourself willing and they’re not getting the wrong person type.
- You’ll have a background working on large complex building types.
- You’d do the usual managing of teams and have an appropriate project load.
- You’d have clients to manage and look after.
- You’d be heavily supported, spend time reflecting and learning about the business side of architecture.
- You’d network, and market yourself and the business. Regularly getting out and about.