Anglian Water @one Alliance
People Development Manager
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People Development Manager
People Development Manager
Drive a Greener Future with the @one Alliance
Location: Peterborough / Hybrid
About the @one Alliance
We’re the @one Alliance – an established and ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and seven industry-leading partners:
- Balfour Beatty
- Barhale
- Binnies
- MMB
- MWH Treatment
- Skanska
- SWECO
Together, we deliver over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we enter our most ambitious investment period yet, we will deliver a broader range of innovative and environmentally-driven infrastructure projects, including urban drainage and nature-based solutions like constructed wetlands.
Why Join Us?
This is a strategic people development role with real scope to shape, build, and influence.
You’ll create the People Development approach for our Alliances, working closely with senior leaders to understand business challenges ahead and turn them into leadership and workforce development priorities.
It’s about more than delivering programmes—it’s about building the frameworks and thinking that help leaders develop their people, strengthen performance, and prepare the Alliance for the demands of AMP8 and beyond.
Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Creating and owning the People Development strategy for the Alliances, ensuring it aligns with business priorities, future workforce needs, and long-term capability requirements.
- Acting as a trusted business partner to Executive and senior leadership teams, using their priorities, challenges, and ambitions to shape:
- People development plans
- Practical leadership strategies
- Leveraging workforce insights, business data, and external trends to:
- Identify capability needs
- Prioritise where development will make the biggest difference
- Building strong relationships across Anglian Water and partner organisations to:
- Align development plans
- Ensure relevance to business outcomes
- Influencing senior stakeholders in a complex Alliance environment to help leaders make confident decisions about:
- People operations
- Capability building
- Leadership development
- Designing a holistic development system that extends beyond standalone training, integrating:
- Leadership
- Team effectiveness
- Skills
- Performance
- Culture
- Identifying current and future skills gaps through insightful:
- Stakeholder engagement
- Data analysis
- Understanding the Alliance’s strategic direction
- Leading the full development cycle: from diagnosis and design → delivery → evaluation → measurable business impact.
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- Driving innovation in how people learn and develop by:
- Testing new approaches
- Focusing on practical outcomes
Requirements
To succeed in this role, you will bring:
✅ Strong experience in:
- Creating people development, leadership, or organisational capability strategies linked to business priorities
- Operating as a senior L&D or people development professional with the ability to shape thinking rather than just execute activity
- Strong business partnering skills, combining:
- Trust-building
- Asking insightful questions
- Constructive challenge to senior leaders
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✅ Confidence in working within:
- A complex, matrix environment
- Balancing multiple priorities, stakeholders, and delivery routes
✅ Experience designing:
- Scalable development frameworks
- Leadership and capability plans with measurable business value
✅ Deep understanding of:
- Organisational development
- Leadership effectiveness
- Culture and team performance
- How capabilities align with business change
Our Vision & Values
The @one Alliance embodies more than just delivery—we are a movement dedicated to driving sustainable outcomes. Our vision is to help Anglian Water achieve: 🌱 Net Zero operational carbon by 2030 🏞️ Climate-resilient infrastructure for future generations
Values:
- Build trust
- Do the right thing
- Always explore
- Ready to help
Apply Today
Ready to reduce carbon, drive innovation, and deliver a sustainable future? Apply today and become part of one of the UK’s most forward-thinking infrastructure programmes!
Closing Date: Friday, 17th July 2026
About the Organisation
The role is part of the Anglian Water @one Alliance, a collaboration between consultants and contractors. Our projects include infrastructure for six million people in East England, focusing on water and wastewater challenges and promoting carbon reduction. Diversity, innovation, and inclusive Excellence are core to our ethos.
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