We develop a framework that provides a straightforward approach to fully exploit the permutational symmetry of identical multilevel systems. By taking into account the permutational symmetry, we outline a simple scheme that allows us to map the dynamics of
N identical
d-level systems to the dynamics of
d bosonic modes with
N particles, achieving an exponential reduction on the dimensionality of the problem in a simple and straightforward way. In particular, we consider the Lindblad dynamics of several identical multilevel systems interacting with a common subsystem under the action of collective dissipation terms.