Transformation Manager

Company Description

Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England.

Job Description

• A company car allowance scheme (£6000 per year)
• Annual incentive related bonus (up to 15% of annual salary for the 2026/2027 performance year)
• Private health care (self only)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays plus an extra wellness day!
• A great benefits package choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

This role will initially be based in Bradford but we will be moving our office to Leeds Valley Park in summer 2026, so you’ll be based there in the future. There will be hybrid working in place for this role.

This is a fixed term contract role for up to 18 months, working full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday between a working window of 8:00am-6:00pm.

We have an exciting opportunity for a People Transformation Manager to join the People team at Yorkshire Water.

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, its so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshires water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the regions health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

You will play a pivotal role in facilitating sustainable change in working methods and culture across the Company by taking accountability for delivery of key elements of our strategic people programme.

You will partner across the people team, working within a matrix approach with Business Partners, Learning, Resourcing, Talent, Communications, Reward and Culture, ED&I teams (where applicable) to ensure delivery of people transformation activity. You will also work collaboratively with other key stakeholders across the business.

• Build and take ownership for robust plans to ensure the delivery of the outcomes to enable the realisation of benefits of the assigned programme.
• Deliver against the agreed milestones and manage risks and issues as they arise, escalating where applicable.
• Gather appropriate data & insights to inform programme decision making and impact assessment activity.
• Utilise leading-edge thinking and techniques, ensuring solutions are identified and we are equipped for the future of work through embedding this into programmes of work and operational practices.
• Design with the wider people team, processes, working methods and behavioural routines to underpin initiatives and frameworks so that they are fully embedded within the business.
• Support any people related activity to resolve issues within escalation providing technical knowledge/ governance /assurance as required.

• Strong background in people related change programmes and broader people change management
• Strong ability to influence and engage a diverse mix of stakeholders, including Executive level
• Excellent communication skills, able to break down complex concepts verbally, visually (in presentations) and in writing
• High levels of self-motivation and resilience
• Accustomed to working with complex organisational challenges and programmes of work with significant organisation-wide impacts
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities at once with multiple stakeholders.

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