Anglian Water's @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
Who are we?
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 and Sweco. Together, we deliver over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
As we enter our most ambitious investment period yet, we’ll be delivering an even broader range of innovative and environmentally-driven infrastructure projects, from urban drainage to 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 the business challenges ahead and turn them into practical leadership and workforce development priorities. This role goes beyond delivering programmes—it’s about building the thinking, relationships, and frameworks that help leaders develop their people, strengthen performance, and prepare the Alliance for AMP8 and beyond.
What you’ll be doing
- 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, shaping practical people development plans based on their priorities, challenges, and ambitions.
- Using workforce insight, business data, and external trends to identify where capability gaps exist and where development initiatives will have the most significant impact.
- Building strong relationships across Anglian Water and partner organisations to ensure development priorities remain aligned, relevant, and directly linked to business outcomes.
- Influencing senior stakeholders across a complex Alliance environment, assisting leaders in making confident decisions about people, capability, and leadership development.
- Designing a development system that moves beyond standalone training, focusing on integrating leadership, team effectiveness, skills, culture, and performance.
- Identifying current and future skills gaps through meaningful stakeholder engagement, data analysis, and a clear understanding of where the Alliance is headed.
- Leading the full development cycle, from diagnosis and design, through to delivery, evaluation, and generating measurable business impact.
- Introducing fresh thinking into how people learn and develop, testing innovations and focusing on what works in real-world scenarios.
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What you’ll bring
- Strong experience in creating People Development, Leadership, or Organisational Capability Strategies that are directly aligned with business priorities.
- Experience operating in a senior L&D or People Development role, with the confidence to influence strategic thinking rather than merely executing activity.
- Exceptional business partnering skills, enabling the ability to build trust, ask insightful questions, and challenge leaders constructively.
- Comfort working in a complex, matrix environment, balancing stakeholder priorities, collaboration, and delivery routes.
- Experience in designing scalable development frameworks, leadership approaches, and capability plans, ensuring measurable business value.
- A deep understanding of organisational development, including leadership effectiveness, cultural transformation, team performance, and how people development supports business change.
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Our vision and values
The @One Alliance is more than just a delivery organisation—it’s a movement. We’re a collaborative team committed to driving change and delivering sustainable outcomes for our communities. Our vision is to help Anglian Water achieve Net Zero operational carbon by 2030, while creating climate-resilient assets that will benefit future generations.
We live by our values:
- Build trust
- Do the right thing
- Always explore
Ready to help us reduce carbon, drive innovation, and deliver a sustainable future?
Apply today and join one of the UK’s most forward-thinking infrastructure programmes!
Closing date: Friday, 17th July 2026.
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