Strategic Workforce Planning Specialist Full Time

Sanderson Recruitment Plc

Strategic Workforce Planning Specialist

Rate – Circa £400 per day Inside IR35

Duration – 6 months

Location – London twice a week/50% on site

Our client has big ambitions, to achieve them they need to have the right people, with the right skills and capabilities to deliver the strategy. Building and implementing a strategic workforce plan is pivotal to their future success.

This role focusses on 2/3 work streams within their strategic workforce planning design and activity project across the business, working with a broad range of internal stakeholders to embed the new approach, set direction, and ensure alignment with their strategic and financial priorities. You will gather market research and translate this into hypothesis and work with the Data Scientist.

A bit about the job:

• Work on the strategic workforce planning activity, focussing on embedding a newly developed approach and organisational capability.
• Partner the business with the ongoing creation of the workforce of the future ‘blueprint’; providing expertise and thought leadership in how to interpret and use external market trend organisational data and internal analysis.
• Support the People Directors and their teams to provide strategic workforce planning expertise to senior leaders which facilitate the creation of business area strategic workforce plans.
• Provide continuing insight to senior leaders on emerging themes and trends in the workforce.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Ability to think and operate with a strategic mindset, with experience in identifying and understanding the organisation’s strategy and goals and understanding how to translate these into talent and capability needs.
• Senior level stakeholder engagement along with effective verbal and written communication
• Able to understand and interpret a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data and insight, drawing clear and objective conclusions which lead to practical and actionable recommendations.
• Strong change management skills with demonstrated ability to navigate a highly complex environment.
• Naturally curious and eager to learn seeking out new knowledge through cross-functional collaboration.

If you think this position is suitable for yourself please apply