Leadership Development Manager

TN United Kingdom; Worthing; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Worthing is seeking a Leadership Development Manager to enhance leadership and management development initiatives. This role involves managing a team, designing learning interventions, and fostering stakeholder relationships to achieve strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Experience in large organizations with multiple stakeholders.
• Significant experience in designing and managing learning activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Leadership Development professionals.
• Design and deliver organization-wide learning interventions.
• Provide coaching to senior leaders and managers.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Influence

Communication

Planning

Content design

Initiative

Leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

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Leadership Development Manager, Worthing

Client: Southern Water

Location: Worthing, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: aa5e618df90d

Job Views: 3

Posted: 17.05.2025

Expiry Date: 01.07.2025

Job Description:

Closing Date: 2025-05-28

Position: Leadership Development Manager

Location: Hybrid working, Worthing

Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hrs

Salary: Up to £66,000 based on experience

Southern Water is seeking a Leadership Development Manager to join our Learning & Development team. This managerial role focuses on enhancing leadership and management development interventions, processes, and systems to support the company's vision. The role involves influencing and challenging the organization to achieve its strategic goals by fostering a connected, informed, and motivated workforce, enabling success, and facilitating high performance through diverse leadership initiatives.

Accountabilities:

• Lead a team of Leadership Development professionals, implementing and embedding strategies, action plans, and processes that support business objectives.
• Provide expertise, reporting, and insights on leadership and management development to the HR Leadership Team and stakeholders.
• Build effective relationships with key stakeholders and People Partners to implement leadership development strategies and interventions.
• Manage budgets related to leadership development, including external contract management, balancing costs with long-term benefits.
• Design and deliver organization-wide learning interventions, including mentoring, managing LD Trainers and their workload.
• Provide coaching to senior leaders and managers to enhance performance and behaviors.
• Apply knowledge of psychometric testing and behavioral profiling for leaders and managers.

Skills & Competencies:

• Problem solving: Providing solutions to key challenges.
• Analytical skills: Evaluating financial success of training schemes and maintaining a commercial focus.
• Influence: Persuading senior and middle management to support Learning & Development initiatives.
• Communication: Effective in both written and spoken communication.
• Planning: Ability to plan and organize effectively.
• Content design and facilitation skills.
• Initiative: Proactive and responsible for decision-making consequences.
• Leadership: Energizing, motivating, and leading teams.
• Stakeholder collaboration: Working effectively with internal and external partners.

Knowledge & Qualifications:

• Experience in large, complex organizations with multiple stakeholders, including matrix relationships.
• Knowledge of current HR issues and evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Significant experience in designing, implementing, and managing learning & development activities at scale.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent.
• Experience with learning and development, HR qualifications, behavioral profiling, psychometric testing, coaching qualifications or experience.

If the above sounds like you and you would like to be considered for this role, please send your application today!

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