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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.
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