Strategic Workforce Planning Modeller Senior Manager 6m FTC

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Job Description & Summary

About the role:

Strategic Workforce Planning is crucial for aligning workforce capabilities and capacity with the firms medium to long-term objectives. By analysing workforce supply and demand it provides a robust data-driven foundation for strategic decision-making ensuring the right workforce size composition and capability mix within budgetary constraints. Drawing on these insights the role proactively designs and drives a coherent prioritised portfolio of talent interventions to mitigate workforce risk accelerate critical capability development and futureproof the business.

As the Strategic Workforce Planning Senior Manager in our Centre of Excellence (CoE) you will spearhead firmwide connectivity in planning through the creation and management of comprehensive business processes and tools. Your role will involve forecasting to identify gaps between future workforce demand and supply and leveraging this analysis to effectively manage our strategies to buy build or borrow talent to meet organisational objectives. While the CoE is tasked with aggregating data for workforce planning this endeavour is fundamentally driven by stakeholder engagement and leadership across each line of service underscoring the strategys collaborative nature. Your analytical expertise and stakeholder management skills will be vital in fostering integration and alignment across the firm.

What your days will look like:

• Proactively set up a firmwide skills-based approach to workforce planning. Facilitate reviews and tools while leveraging global leading practice technology to ensure robust forward-thinking workforce strategies. You will be responsible for establishing Line of Service (LoS) aligned business processes for strategic workforce planning and partnering with each Workforce Strategy Specialist to ensure the process is optimised and effective for each LoS.

• Identify risks and opportunities in SWP technology by capturing internal and external market intelligence. Provide actionable insights and best practice delivery through the operating model and integrate workforce plans with talent acquisition and development plans at a firmwide level to ensure strategic capability building and appropriate headcount management.

• Actively monitor and adapt to changes in business and financial planning or strategic change programmes. Ensure these changes are incorporated into predictive modelling and workforce planning processes. Partner with the firmwide strategy team to analyse future demand based on growth drivers and ensure alignment with strategic objectives.

• Develop and maintain proactive methods for analysing workforce planning factors; identify highlight and anticipate issues and opportunities establishing principles for predictive analytics around supply and demand (e.g. attrition organisational movement agility).

• Collaborate with the business to produce actionable workforce plans that forecast resourcing requirements aligned with business objectives and articulating the necessary actions to achieve these resource levels.

This role is for you if:

• You have extensive experience in proactive workforce planning within large complex organisations with an emphasis on identifying risks and driving transformation.

• You possess expertise in implementing cutting-edge tools technologies and predictive analytics to enhance strategic decision-making in workforce planning.

• You have proven experience in partnering with project management and central planning teams ensuring alignment of workforce plans with overarching long-term and short-term organisational objectives.

• You demonstrate strong business acumen; deep understanding of business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance including business KPIs and business cases leveraging external benchmarks for informed decision-making.

• You have advanced analytical reasoning; adept at identifying workforce insights developing hypotheses and recommending data and analytical products that address these needs. Analytical and proactive approach to anticipating and responding to evolving workforce needs and challenges.

• You have exceptional impact and influence skills; especially in developing managing and nurturing stakeholder relationships at all levels. You can build compelling cases for change using data-driven insights and successfully influence senior stakeholders. Additionally you possess an agile and forward-thinking mindset with the ability to anticipate and adapt to changes and align strategies accordingly.

What youll receive from us:

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life our benefits are designed to add value and support recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.

Education (if blank degree and/or field of study not specified)