People Development Manager vacancy
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We are a small company that is engaged in a great many development projects such as our in-house Wayfinder programme, our Better Futures Fund and other charity donation projects, change-work-focused collaborations and events support, support for breweries to whom we offer contract production, new product development in beer, soda, and beyond, developing the business to meet B Corp standards, and laying the foundations for employee ownership.
Across nearly ten departments, our day-to-day work benefits from continual refinement and evolution. In the midst of the challenges we face as an ambitious small business is an opportunity for a Development Manager to work closely with our existing management team and finance department to realise our strategic objectives, and to work across all departments to develop greater focus on short and long-term goals, assist with brainstorming quick wins and stable foundations, assign responsibilities and track financial and personal progress, and refine our day-to-day work to best hit our goals.
Foremost amongst your skills and attributes will be a love for people realising their full potential, for progression at work, and seeing development within the workplace as an exhilarating catalyst for personal growth. Developing new projects often requires untethering skill sets from existing and previous applications, and forming new working rhythms from familiar patterns.
Our team has enormous potential, and our collective ambitions are bold. We look forward to your application to help us become all that we can be.
If our existing management team sets out where we need to head, and our HR department serves us with a view of where our teams are in the present moment, this new People Development Manager role will lay out the route we’ll take to get there.
This is a full time position based in Manchester, at our brewery site, and will offer a salary of between £40,000-50,000 depending on track record and previous experience. As a member of our senior management team we will endeavour to contain your ambition and drive within a 40 hour week.
Our timeline for filling this job role is as follows:
Advertising and accepting applications - closes Sunday February 28th at 9pm
Reviewing and shortlisting - Monday and Tuesday March 1st and 2nd
Scheduling Interviews - Wednesday March 3rd
Interviewing - Thursday and Friday March 4th and 5th
Offering the role to the successful candidate - Monday March 8th
The successful candidate will be able to start with us on site here in Manchester early within the month of April 2021.
Previous experience within the beer industry is not required.
Please take time to review our equality and equity policy below.
Equality and Equity Policy
Our Equality and Equity Policy seeks to address and correct systemic, societal, and global prejudice, bias, and friction through hiring, training, and on the job support with intentions and positive action to extend extra help and opportunities to those society has disadvantaged.
Though equal opportunity is a noble aim, we take into account that the world we live in continues to place obstacles, and emotional and physical violence in the way of women, people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, and intersectional, non-conformist people everywhere.
We will seek, from our analysis of job applications, to on the job development, to level the playing field, and provide you with the unique training, support, understanding, and skills necessary for you to succeed.
We recognise that the UK brewing industry currently lacks the equality and equity practices we long to see become the norm. Though our job listings often express our desire to hire a candidate with existing industry or role based experiences, the current demographic of the UK brewing industry does not yet reflect that of wider society.
If you are applying without direct industry experience but believe you have comparable skills we will positively evaluate your existing experiences as highly transferable skills.
At Cloudwater Brew Co, we believe that your passion and potential are more important than your past achievements. That your love for people and progress is more important than your love of beer.
On the job performance reviews will take into account your unique life experiences, and the unique pressures you face, and seek to foster personal growth within your development in your role. In fitting with our anti-assimilation principles, our culture will be shaped by your needs.
Our Equality and Equity Policy recognises that our good intentions are only the first step, and must be met with excellent outcomes.