Strategic Workforce Planner – Warehousing & Scheduling

Winc; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly Winc Awards program

Team discounts

Corporate partner discounts

Job summary

Winc is seeking a Workforce Planning Manager in Australia to standardise rostering and schedule across our national network of 9 distribution centres. You will bridge operations with data analytics and WFM technology, designing scalable processes and partner with site leaders to match capacity with demand.

You will lead forecasting, modelling and BI for capacity planning, leveraging UKG and analytics to elevate efficiency and service levels across the network.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of workforce planning, labour optimisation or operational planning across supply chain, logistics, warehousing or multi-site operations.
• Proven ability to design WFM processes, standardise operations and drive change through coaching and training.
• Strong WFM/timekeeping systems experience; UKG highly regarded.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Strong commercial and analytical acumen, linking labour planning to costs, OT and service levels.

Responsibilities

• Architect and roll out standardized rostering and scheduling processes across all 9 Distribution Centres.
• Continuously evaluate and optimise shift patterns, labour models, and scheduling rules against historical and forecasted volume demand.
• Establish clear workforce planning guidelines, attendance policies, and operational scheduling routines.
• Lead workforce planning: Align strategies to business priorities, service commitments and customer demand.
• Coach Distribution Centre Operations leaders, building capability in forecasting, planning, optimisation and business improvement.
• Own workforce planning outcomes, including service levels, workforce efficiency, capacity performance and operational effectiveness.
• Ensure forecasting, scheduling and optimisation activities support operational requirements and customer expectations.
• Manage relationships with 3rd party workforce labour agencies

Skills

Workforce planning

Labour optimisation

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Forecasting

Tools

Excel & Power Query

SQL

Python

Tableau

Job description

Winc is seeking a Workforce Planning Manager in Australia to standardise rostering and schedule across our national network of 9 distribution centres. You will bridge operations with data analytics and WFM technology, designing scalable processes and partner with site leaders to match capacity with demand.

You will lead forecasting, modelling and BI for capacity planning, leveraging UKG and analytics to elevate efficiency and service levels across the network.