People Development Manager

The Role

People Development Manager

We’re looking for a passionate and proactive People Development Manager to shape and deliver a wide range of learning and development experiences across both our UK and global teams—with a key focus on leadership and management development.

In this hands-on role, you’ll work closely with the business to consult, advise and lead on impactful development initiatives; designing and delivering team days, workshops, and learning programmes that truly make a difference.

Reporting to the Head of Learning, Development & Wellbeing, you’ll play a central role in building a culture of continuous learning at ITV; empowering our people, growing capability, and helping our leaders thrive in a fast-evolving media landscape.

The team

This role sits within ITV’s Resourcing and Development team, part of our People function. Our goal is to create a culture of continuous learning where all colleagues have the opportunity to develop their knowledge, skills and behaviours, while helping ITV remain an employer of choice in media.

Responsibilities:

• Design and delivery of a scalable Leader and Management Development offering across the UK and internationally
• Working with HR Business Partners and direct to business to understand the needs of the business and co-create a plan and deliver development, including clear pre and post programme evaluation
• Working with Head of Learning, Development & Wellbeing to gather internal and external data and insights to inform evolution of leadership development strategy and priorities
• Working with key stakeholders to design and deliver team days at every level of the organisation
• Working with external providers to design and deliver development content including measures of success and evaluation
• Working with internal communications to drive comms campaigns, providing base copy and ideas to promote ITVs development offering to our leadership and manager population
• Embed Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into everything we do- from training content to delivery, ensuring learning is inclusive, accessible and impactful.
• Take a hands on approach to create engaging digital learning solutions that improve individual, team and business performance
• Actively balance the needs of ITV and our colleagues, ensuring colleagues are skilled in their work whilst ensuring alignment to ITV’s overall strategic priorities
• Actively contributing to a culture of learning at ITV
• Gather, analyse and act upon feedback on the learning experience
• Be agile and responsive to the changing needs of the business and colleagues we serve
• Build relationships with the training providers to ensure that all the programmes we deliver have clear learning objectives and are aligned to our broader leader, manager and all colleague offerings.
• Maintain expertise and continued professional development - using external best practice to develop best in class development interventions

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Proven experience in designing and/or delivering leadership development programmes globally (ideally for senior leader populations), with a preference for design, delivery and measurement
• Understanding of best practice leadership development approaches
• Experience facilitating development programmes and team days at all levels
• A strong track record of partnering and consulting with business and HR stakeholders to design and implement effective learning solutions
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects under pressure, within tight timelines and budgets

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Experience designing and delivering content with external providers, including evaluation and success measures
• Experience with digital content tools such as Articulate or other eLearning authoring platforms
• Knowledge of how to run effective virtual workshops, webinars and online classrooms
• Strong communication and presentation skills across all management levels
• Familiarity with assessment tools such as SDI, Hogan and leadership frameworks
• A proactive and methodical approach with strong planning and prioritisation skills
• Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced team environment
• Resilience and adaptability when working through change and ambiguity

Closing date: 22nd May 2025

Please note, on occasion we may receive a very large volume of applications which means applications for a role may close earlier than the referenced closing date. We’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested.