Talent Development Manager

Talent Development Manager    
Salary from £48,813
Up to 10% bonus
One permanent role
Based in either Leeds or Sunderland with hybrid working from office & from home

We have an exciting opportunity to come join us in a newly created role as a Talent Development Manager. The role will lead in identifying and providing a succession pipeline plan for the business as well as designing and developing programmes to support us in our future resourcing needs.

Working closely with the HR Director and other senior leaders you will lead in identifying and career mapping high performing colleagues already within the business, developing new graduate and year-in-industry placement programmes and supporting new talent into Northern Gas Networks replacing leavers and business churn.

This is a great opportunity for you to really influence the way we evolve talent across our business and create, develop and embed new ways of working.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities
•    Overseeing the identification and career mapping of high performers within NGN
•    Delivering and evaluating effective Talent Development solutions for NGN – ensuring that all material is up to date, fit for purpose and drives business performance
•    Building credible and collaborative relationships with line and department managers to identify training needs
•    Designing and evaluating management training programmes to support the development of established and new managers
•    Develop the capability of our colleagues, in order to enable them to contribute fully to improve business performance
•    Building relationships across the business to ensure learning has been embedded with support from line managers

What we are looking for
•    Experience as a Talent Development Manager or similar role with demonstrable record of training programme development and management
•    Relevant qualification in Learning and Development and/or membership of CIPD at Level 7
•    Exposure to developing / managing high performers into more senior positions
•    Project management qualification or demonstrable project management work experience
•    Good stakeholder management skills with the ability to lead and motivate across a wide range of teams
•    Good organisational skills able to plan and coordinate multiple work programmes simultaneously

What we Offer
•    Starting salary from £48,813
•    40 hours per week  
•    Up to 10% bonus (dependent upon achievement of set targets)  
•    25 days annual leave (plus recognised bank holidays and 2 half days over the Christmas period) 
•    SSP for first 7 calendar days then occupational sick pay 
•    A generous stakeholder 5/10 pension scheme
•    Free onsite parking
•    Flexible benefits and salary sacrifice options... from discounts on a variety of UK attractions, gym membership, restaurant discounts, experience days...and exclusive NGN discounts and much more!
•    An array of fantastic family- friendly policies such as 6 weeks’ paternity leave (for eligible employees) and 6 months’ full pay for employees on maternity leave (for eligible employees), as well as shared parental leave and many more.

We are ... Northern Gas Networks.  We deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire. That’s around 6.7million individual customers.  We don’t generate or sell the gas, but we transport it to homes and businesses in our region through a vast network of underground pipes.  In fact, we own and maintain more than 37,000km of gas pipes - enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney and back again.  We cover large cities like Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds, York, Hull, and Bradford, and our work extends to rural areas like North Yorkshire and Cumbria.  

Our Values are at the heart of what we do. In addition to your key responsibilities, you will incorporate these into the daily life of your role.  We are … Trailblazing, Empowered, Heartfelt, Community Focused, Intellectually Curious and most of all we are Happy!

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion culture at NGN is embedded in everything that we do. We will be delighted to hear from a diverse range of applicants, so we can continue to grow our great team of people.  We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant, helping ex-services personnel back into employment, as well as being members of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and we are committed to delivering our ‘Opportunity Action Plan’ having signed the Social Mobility Pledge campaign, whereby we will establish our business as a ‘force for good’ in the communities that we serve. 

Next Steps.  Please apply by uploading your CV. We love to see how your experience and skills are transferable to this role so please ensure these are all included in your application. Once the advert has closed, we will be contact within one week to let you know if you have progressed to the next stage. We are looking to hold interviews for this role throughout March and April.  We look forward to receiving your application for the role.

If you require adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process, we want to hear about how we can help. Any applicant that requires reasonable adjustments from initial application through to interview are asked to contact the Recruitment Team at