Development Manager

Unily partners with the world’s largest and most complex enterprises to power Organizational Velocity through digital Employee Experience transformation. Iconic brands, including Estée Lauder Companies, CVS Health, and British Airways, use Unily’s market-leading Employee Experience platform to improve productivity, streamline communication, and foster a highly connected workplace.

Unily is the only triple leader recognized by all three of the major analysts. Unily is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner®Magic Quadrant™for Intranet Packaged Solutions, the 2024 Forrester Wave™:
Intranet Platforms, and the IDC Market Scape:
Worldwide Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Work spaces 2025. With these accolades, we continue to grow and expand our employee community with people who are passionate about joining us on this exciting journey.

As we continue to expand our market share in the rapidly emerging Employee Experience platform category, we are looking for a People Development Manager. Reporting to the Director, Learning and Enablement and part of the wider Enablement Team, you will work to design and scalable learning and talent development solutions aligned to Unily’s people strategy and our aim to Align, Engage and Develop the best talent in the market.

You will partner closely with our People Partners, the Enablement team, and our global business leaders to understand business needs and deliver impactful learning and development programmes, designed to drive a high performance culture.

• Managing the People Development annual budget
• Creation and delivery of a company-wide Development roadmap, to provide access to development opportunities to all of our employees, to include leadership and manager enablement, and training on relevant skills and competencies to include identifying external providers, negotiating contracts and overseeing the development of content
• Working with key business owners on roll‑out and tracking of mandatory trainings on topics such as Information Security, Data Protection and Harassment, using an online LMS system (Thrive)
• Liaising with business stakeholders on technical training requirements, helping them to prioritise and manage to budget, co‑ordinating with external providers, scheduling sessions and managing feedback
• Own the internal People Development site on our intranet to create awareness and excitement about our Development offerings, working together with our employee communications expert to drive engagement
• Working closely with the People Partners to build out our approach to talent reviews, succession planning and development opportunities to help top talent achieve their potential
• Monitor trends and best practice in Talent Development and be proactive in recommending enhancements to our offering to drive success
• Provide guidance, support and coaching to managers in identifying and addressing employee and team development needs, providing tools and resources to help teams maximise their performance

• An experienced, proactive and creative development professional, with at least five years’ experience in a Learning & Development team or longer in a strategic HR role with a leaning towards development
• Proven ability to balance the strategic and tactical elements of the role, ensuring high levels of accuracy in terms of organisation and budget, together with the creation of an exciting and inspiring development plan
• A highly effective communicator and influencer, able to coach and challenge our business leaders and help shape our high performance culture
• A confident speaker and facilitator, with excellent presentation skills, and the ability to bring learning content to life in an inspiring way
• Experienced in developing interactive and engaging learning assets using tools such as Articulate Rise (and open to others); experience or interest in using AI tools would be an advantage but not essential
• Good working knowledge of learning theories, design methodologies and adult learning principles
• A qualification in facilitation and / or a training certification would be an advantage but not required

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