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! #LI-Hybrid #LI-HC1 Our purpose is big. Our impact is huge. And we know that every single one of us has the power, through our actions, to positively change society and the environment for good. It’s why careers with us have real meaning. Because, if you’re driven and ambitious, we can offer you huge opportunities for personal growth, professional development and constant innovation. Forever evolving. Forever focused on doing the right thing, we empower and encourage everyone to play to their strengths and to help us shape a fair and positive future for all. We believe in Water for Life. If you do too, Dive Right In. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position. Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?