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Closing Date: 15/12/2025
Location: Worthing
Employment type: Permanent – 37 hours per week
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits
Key Responsibilities
* Strategic Partnering: Collaborate with senior leaders to deliver the People Plan, ensuring alignment with business goals and performance metrics.
* Performance Alignment: Ensure people priorities directly support delivery of safety, service, and cost outcomes.
* Workforce Planning: Own the strategic workforce plan for your area, developing buy/build strategies to ensure the right talent is in place — at the right time and cost.
* Leadership Coaching: Challenge and support leaders to raise capability, role‑model expectations, and embed leadership standards.
* Team Effectiveness: Drive team performance through targeted interventions and development strategies.
* Culture Activation: Lead cultural change programmes, embedding frameworks and enabling new ways of working.
* Risk Anticipation: Identify workforce risks, succession gaps, and future skills needs — and work with Talent and OE to address them.
* Succession Strengthening: Ensure robust pipelines are in place for critical roles.
* Change Enablement: Guide leaders through organisational change, providing practical solutions that support transformation.
* People Team Integration: Represent the full People Team offer in the business, connecting leaders and colleagues with expertise in talent, reward, capability, OE, and safety.
* Insight‑Driven Decisions: Use people data and analytics to anticipate risks, track progress, and influence leadership decisions.
Qualifications
To be considered for this role you will be a strategic influencer with deep experience in partnering with senior leaders. You will bring a sharp understanding of organisational dynamics, a proactive mindset, and a passion for unlocking leadership potential. You will be confident navigating complexity, driving change, and delivering measurable impact.
About the organization
We’re more than a utility — we’re a purpose‑led organisation committed to sustainability, innovation, and community impact. Join us and help shape a high‑performing, future‑ready workforce that delivers for our customers and our environment.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Human Resources
Industries
Utilities
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