Workforce Planning Manager

Location: Porton Down, Salisbury

Salary: £450-£620 per day | Inside IR35

Length: 6 Month FTC

Overview:

First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning & People Analytics Lead on behalf of one of our clients.

Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead development, maintenance and annual publication of Strategic Workforce Plan.
• Develop workforce supply and demand forecasts.
• Undertake workforce capability assessments and strategic workforce risk analysis.
• Conduct scenario planning and workforce modelling activities.
• Present workforce planning recommendations to executive stakeholders.
• Support workforce prioritisation and workforce investment decisions.
• People analytics and workforce insight.
• Lead the company’s people analytics and workforce insight capability.
• Produce workforce dashboards, reports and analytical products.
• Deliver workforce forecasting, trend analysis and workforce research.
• Support evidence-based workforce planning and organisational decision-making.
• Improve workforce data quality and reporting standards.
• Coordinate implementation and embedding of the Resource Management Operating Model (RMOM).
• Develop governance arrangements, processes and operating procedures.
• Support workforce planning maturity and organisational adoption.
• Manage implementation risks, actions and dependencies.
• Workforce governance and capability development.
• Coordinate quarterly workforce planning steering groups.
• Maintain Workforce Establishment governance arrangements.
• Develop workforce interventions arising from workforce planning outputs.
• Support workforce capability development priorities and implementation activities.
• Provide specialist advice to senior stakeholders.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Degree in Business, Data Science, Economics, Statistics, Finance or any related fields (i.e. Mathematics, Engineering), or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience leading Strategic Workforce Planning within a complex
• organisation.
• Experience developing workforce strategies, workforce supply and demand models
• and workforce forecasts.
• Strong people analytics capability, including workforce insight, dashboard
• development, trend analysis and reporting.
• Experience conducting workforce capability assessments and workforce risk analysis.
• Experience developing evidence-based recommendations for senior leaders and executive-level stakeholders.
• Experience implementing workforce operating models, organisational change initiatives or workforce transformation programmes.
• Strong governance, stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Experience establishing and maintaining governance forums and operating procedures.
• Ability to translate workforce data into practical interventions and strategic workforce decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working across HR, workforce capability, organisational development and
• transformation environments.
• Ability to work independently and provide specialist subject matter expertise.
• A demonstrable ability to link strategic goals with operational and financial information in order to facilitate big picture decision-making.
• Ability to carry out multiple variable analysis, regression analysis, factor analysis and thematic analysis.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to distil and present information.
• Proven experience of utilising Microsoft Excel(formulas, pivots, macros etc).
• Project management experience with multiple stakeholders prioritising and delegating
• projects/tasks.
• Demonstrable experience in analysing complex data and quality assuring findings.
• An in-depth understanding of the employee lifecycle in an organisation, and how indicators translate the overall health of the organisation.
• POWER BI would be desirable.