Strategic Workforce Planning Lead

Winc Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Awards program

EAP access

Generous leave

Job summary

Winc Australia is seeking a Workforce Planning Manager to standardise rostering and scheduling across our national distribution network. You will bridge operations, data analytics and technology, designing scalable rostering frameworks and managing the UKG timekeeping system.

You will lead forecasting and capacity planning, partner with site leaders, and drive improvements in efficiency and service levels across 9 DCs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ workforce planning, labour optimisation or operational planning experience 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.

Responsibilities

• Architect and roll out standardized, scalable rostering and scheduling processes across all 9 Distribution Centres.
• Continuously evaluate and optimize 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: Aligning workforce 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, customer expectations and sustainable growth.
• Manage relationships with 3rd party workforce labour agencies

Skills

Workforce planning

Labour optimisation

Stakeholder management

Forecasting

BI analysis

Change management

Communication

Data analysis

Tools

UKG

Excel

Power Query

SQL

Python

Tableau

Job description

Winc Australia is seeking a Workforce Planning Manager to standardise rostering and scheduling across our national distribution network. You will bridge operations, data analytics and technology, designing scalable rostering frameworks and managing the UKG timekeeping system.

You will lead forecasting and capacity planning, partner with site leaders, and drive improvements in efficiency and service levels across 9 DCs.