Leadership Development Trainer

Southern Water; Falmer; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water utility company is seeking a Leadership Development Trainer to design and deliver leadership initiatives. The role requires collaboration with stakeholders and coaching managers to enhance performance. The ideal candidate will have a background in learning and development, knowledge of HR issues, and relevant qualifications in coaching and psychometric testing. This position offers hybrid working arrangements and a competitive salary based on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and managing learning & development activities.
• Knowledge of current HR issues and evidence of CPD.
• Knowledge of leadership development.

Responsibilities

• Embed tactical initiatives and action plans supporting business objectives.
• Design and deliver learning interventions for leadership development.
• Provide coaching to managers for performance improvement.
• Conduct learning needs analysis for leadership development.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Influence

Communication

Planning

Content design and facilitation

Collaboration

Education

Behavioural profiling or psychometric testing qualification

Coaching qualification and/or experience

Job description

Closing Date

2026-01-12

Leadership Development Trainer

Location: Hybrid working, Worthing

Perm / FTC: Permanent

Hours: 37 hrs

Salary: Up to £45,000 based on experience

Southern Water are looking for a Leadership Development Trainer to join our fantastic L&D team. This role designs and delivers the standard of leadership and management development interventions, processes, and systems to enable Southern Water to achieve its vision. It will influence, challenge, and drive the achievement of business strategy and plans by enabling people to feel connected, informed and motivated about their role, achieve success and facilitate high performance by delivering a wide range and scope of leadership and management development interventions.

Accountabilities

• Embeds the LD tactical initiatives, action plans and processes within the business, which support the business’s objectives and key results. Build effective, collaborative working relationships with key business stakeholders and People Partners to implement tactical interventions for leadership and management development.


• Responsible for designing and delivering business-wide learning interventions for leadership development, including mentoring.


• Provides coaching to managers and other employees to empower them to develop and improve their performance and / or behaviours.


• Provides expert knowledge in application of psychometric testing and / or behavioural profiling for leaders and managers.


• Responsible for learning needs analysis across leadership development; providing measures of success, evaluation, and insights.

Skills & Competencies

• Problem solving: Provides solutions to key challenges.


• Analytical skills: The ability to evaluate the financial success of training schemes and be commercially focused.


• Influence: The ability to persuade middle management to support L&D initiatives.


• Communication: The ability to communicate effectively in both writing and speaking.


• Planning: The ability to plan and organize, including event coordination.


• Skilled in content design and facilitation.


• Is ready and able to take the initiative, originate action and be responsible for the consequences of the decisions made.


• Brilliant collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Knowledge of current thinking in HR issues and evidence of CPD.


• Have experience of designing, implementing, and managing learning & development activities.


• Knowledge of leadership development.


• Experience with learning and development.


• Behavioural profiling or psychometric testing qualification.


• Coaching qualification and / or experience.

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