People Development Manager

We are a leading consultancy with a purpose to make an enduring impact on health and healthcare. We work with leaders and frontline teams to improve health, transform healthcare, drive adoption of innovation and create value through investment. Our consultancy serves the entire healthcare sector, from payors and providers of care, to life science companies, health tech and sector suppliers and health investors.

Our work spans strategy and transformation, finance and performance improvement, and delivery accelerated by data, digital and AI. Our consulting is accelerated by data and we are recognised for our expertise in its safe and responsible application, improving health and healthcare delivery, supporting adoption of innovation, generating evidence, and informing decision-making.

We are building a community of expert consultants who want to operate at the leading edge of the profession and who share a passion for health. Through structured career development from Analyst to Partner, underpinned by apprenticeship, mentorship and formal training, we are cultivating the leaders of the future and supporting individuals to develop distinctive expertise that creates value for our clients.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the people development function of a fast-growing health consultancy with serious ambitions. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, you will champion our People Strategy and own our performance and development frameworks, with enormous scope to make a difference.

Responsibilities:

• Own Performance & Development
• Lead our performance management and skills framework, ensuring it is innovative, understood, and embedded across the organisation.
• Run our Assessment and Development Committee, managing feedback processes and facilitating career progression discussions.
• Act as a trusted advisor on giving and receiving feedback, readiness to progress, and career planning.
• Champion our Development Sponsor framework, equipping sponsors with resources, training and support.
• Coach managers in effective 1-to-1 conversations using a coaching leadership style.
• Manage frameworks for probationary, monthly, mid-year and end-of-year review discussions.
• Lead our 360 feedback process and help create development plans.
• Drive our OKR programme, delivering training on how OKRs empower teams and individuals.
• Collaborate with Resourcing and Practice leadership to stay abreast of development needs.
• Engage in succession planning to identify top talent with Partner potential.

Transform Learning & Development:

• Position the organisation as an employer of choice through compelling learning offerings.
• Identify skills development needs and serve as a design consultant for leadership development programmes.
• Refresh our annual L&D offering in line with skills gaps and business priorities.
• Develop learning aims, approaches, formats and materials to deliver high-quality learning.
• Create a portfolio of online training that addresses core needs flexibly.
• Leverage e-learning platforms, gamification, and microlearning to enhance learning experiences.
• Refine our onboarding programme so new hires feel successful from day one.
• Own annual accreditation processes with ChMC, CIMA & RSS.
• Manage our learning calendar, including attendance and feedback management.
• Evaluate and report on learning programme effectiveness.

Build Career Frameworks:

• Own development of career pathways, maintaining role overviews, expectations, and growth ladders.
• Enhance and maintain our skills matrix as a tool for development planning, resourcing, people planning and succession planning.
• Develop and manage an experienced hires programme as a critical talent source.
• Manage our secondment programme to create exciting opportunities for industry experience.

Requirements:

• 5+ years in a people role with hands-on L&D and performance management experience.
• Understanding of and experience using different L&D methodologies and a basic knowledge of Learning Science.
• Familiarity with different learning technologies and methods.
• Experience with LMS administration.
• Proven ability to work with stakeholders outside of HR and influence senior stakeholders.
• Self-starter mentality, action-oriented and able to thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills to influence across all levels.
• A data-driven approach: you make decisions and recommendations based on data to achieve people and business outcomes.
• Experience managing projects and understanding of project management principles.

Flexible working:

Our default is to work in person with our clients, but we also support remote working. Team members can work from home one day per week as standard, and we offer an additional 44 remote working days per year.

Benefits:

We offer a competitive and flexible reward package designed to support you at work and beyond it. You will benefit from a generous holiday allowance that grows with your career (minimum of 25 days), a strong employer pension contribution, and the freedom to tailor benefits to suit your lifestyle.