Strategic Workforce & Org Design Consultant (12-mo)

Westland Insurance Group; Surrey; On-site; CAD 96,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open, flexible workplace

Growth opportunities

Autonomy to own your success

Inclusive culture

Total rewards program

Flexible Values Days

Volunteer Days

Job summary

Westland Insurance Group is seeking a Consultant, Workforce Planning & Organization Design to shape our future workforce and organizational structure. The role sits at the intersection of business strategy, analytics, and transformation, translating strategic plans into concrete workforce requirements and design decisions.

You will lead enterprise-wide workforce planning and organization design activities, collaborating with business and People & Performance leaders to assess capacity, scenarios

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in strategic workforce planning, organization design, organizational effectiveness, management consulting, HR strategy, business transformation or related discipline.
• Led workforce planning or organization design activities supporting enterprise-level transformation initiatives.
• Translate strategies, operating models, process redesigns and technology investments into practical workforce and structure recommendations.
• Strong knowledge of organization design principles: accountability, decision rights, spans of control, layers, team configurations, role clarity, interfaces.
• Experience developing workforce forecasts, scenarios, capacity models, capability assessments, or transition strategies.
• Excellent consulting and diagnostic skills with ability to define problems, evaluate options, and make clear recommendations.
• Highly analytical, able to integrate data, business information and qualitative insights for decision making.
• Engaging facilitator and confident presenter for executive discussions and decisions.
• Trusted relationship builder who can influence without direct authority and manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic workforce planning activities that support enterprise transformation priorities.
• Translate business strategies and roadmaps into current and future workforce requirements.
• Assess capacity, critical roles, talent supply and emerging skill needs.
• Develop future-state scenarios considering growth, client needs, technology and AI.
• Identify risks, gaps and opportunities; recommend practical actions.
• Guide decisions on building, buying, redeploying or reskilling capabilities.
• Establish frameworks, assumptions and criteria for workforce planning.
• Lead organization design activities arising from strategic and transformational change.
• Assess structures, accountabilities, decision rights and workflows.
• Partner with leaders to define design principles and future-state options.
• Facilitate workshops and discussions with senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Evaluate options against strategy, costs and organizational effectiveness.
• Develop models, accountability frameworks and implementation considerations.
• Assess impact of AI, automation and tech on work, roles and processes.
• Define future-state roles, accountability and skills requirements.
• Strengthen role clarity, career pathways and internal mobility.
• Align role recommendations with job architecture, compensation and talent practices.
• Identify implications for reskilling, redeployment and recruiting.
• Provide implementation guidance and transition planning.
• Document assumptions and approved outcomes; support post-implementation reviews.

Skills

Strategic workforce planning

Organization design

Organizational effectiveness

Management consulting

HR strategy

Business transformation

Analytics

Facilitation

Executive storytelling

Relationship building

Education

Business / HR / Organizational Development or related field

Job description

Westland Insurance Group is seeking a Consultant, Workforce Planning & Organization Design to shape our future workforce and organizational structure. The role sits at the intersection of business strategy, analytics, and transformation, translating strategic plans into concrete workforce requirements and design decisions.

You will lead enterprise-wide workforce planning and organization design activities, collaborating with business and People & Performance leaders to assess capacity, scenarios