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. It’s about more than delivering programmes; it’s about building the thinking, relationships and frameworks that help leaders develop their people, strengthen performance and prepare the Alliance for the demands of AMP8 and beyond.
What you’ll be doing:
🟢 Creating and owning the People Development strategy for the Alliances, making sure it responds to 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 practical people development plans.
🟢 Using workforce insight, business data and external trends to identify where capability is needed most and where development can make the biggest difference.
🟢 Building strong relationships across Anglian Water and partner organisations so development priorities are joined up, relevant and clearly linked to business outcomes.
🟢 Influencing senior stakeholders across a complex Alliance environment, helping leaders make confident decisions about people, capability and leadership development.
🟢 Designing a development system that goes beyond stand-alone training, bringing together leadership, team effectiveness, skills, culture and performance.
🟢 Identifying current and future skills gaps through meaningful stakeholder engagement, data and a clear understanding of where the Alliance is heading.
🟢 Leading the full development cycle, from diagnosis and design through to delivery, evaluation and measurable business impact.
🟢 Bringing fresh thinking to how people learn and develop, testing new approaches and focusing on what works in practice.
What you’ll bring:
✅ Strong experience creating people development, leadership or organisational capability strategies that are clearly linked to business priorities.
✅ Experience operating in a senior L&D or people development role, with the confidence to shape thinking rather than simply deliver activity.
✅ Excellent business partnering skills, with the ability to build trust, ask the right questions and challenge senior leaders constructively.
✅ Confidence working in a complex, matrix environment where priorities, stakeholders and delivery routes need to be brought together.
✅ Experience designing scalable development frameworks, leadership approaches and capability plans that create measurable value for the business.
✅ A strong understanding of organisational development, including leadership effectiveness, culture, team performance and how people development supports business change.
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 be part of one of the UK’s most forward-thinking infrastructure programmes!
Closing date Friday 17th July 2026.
Skills Required
- Strong experience creating people development, leadership or organisational capability strategies linked to business priorities.
- Experience operating in a senior L&D or people development role with confidence to shape thinking.
- Excellent business partnering skills, ability to build trust, ask the right questions and challenge senior leaders constructively.
- Confidence working in a complex, matrix environment, aligning priorities, stakeholders and delivery routes.
- Experience designing scalable development frameworks, leadership approaches and capability plans that create measurable business value.
- A strong understanding of organisational development, including leadership effectiveness, culture, team performance and change support.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and act as a trusted business partner to Executive and senior leadership teams.
What We Do
The Anglian Water's @one Alliance is a partnership consisting of 8 companies, who each provide specialised knowledge allowing the @one Alliance to deliver complex delivery projects in the most efficient way, reducing the cost to Anglian Water’s customers. Within @one Alliance we’ve currently embarked on a huge programme of work costing a massive £1.2 billion. We’ve entered year 5 of our current 5-year Asset Management Period (AMP7) meaning we’re full steam ahead in delivering around 50% of Anglian Water’s capital delivery projects. Our partners are Anglian Water Asset Delivery, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB), SWECO, SKANSKA and MWH Treatment. Employees in the @one Alliance are employed across all our partner companies and work together to deliver complex programmes of work. The @one Alliance is currently working on over 700 projects all designed to improve and expand the Anglian Water network to better serve existing customers and help ensure supply for future customers as well. As we move into AMP (Asset Management Period 8) in 2025, our work is set to increase from a £1.2 to an approximate £2.6 billion programme of works….so there has never been a better time to join us on our journey! Take a look at our jobs page to see the options available to you
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