Director Strategic Workforce Planning & Analytics

Teva Nederland; Harlow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare company is seeking a Director for Strategic Workforce Planning & Analytics. This role involves co-developing global workforce planning processes, integrating them with strategic objectives, and analyzing workforce needs. Candidates should have HR leadership experience focused on strategy and analytics, along with a strong background in predictive analytics and stakeholder management. This position requires fluency in English and advanced proficiency in HR management tools such as SAP SuccessFactors and visualization tools like Tableau or Power BI.

Qualifications

• HR leadership experience in strategy, workforce planning, and analytics.
• Proven track record of driving organizational change through data-driven HR practices.
• Ability to contribute to financial planning from a SWP&A perspective.

Responsibilities

• Co-develop and implement global workforce planning processes and frameworks.
• Integrate workforce planning with strategic and financial objectives.
• Analyze current workforce for skills and potential gaps.

Skills

Workforce planning

Predictive analytics

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Project management

Fluency in English

Education

Degree in business administration, economics, or human resources

Tools

SAP SuccessFactors

Tableau

Power BI

Anaplan

MS Office

Job description

This is a role inside multifaceted center of excellence, which is instrumental to the execution of our strategic roadmap and is setting up to build and accelerate two core capabilities: Strategic Workforce Planning and People Analytics. As the Director Strategic Workforce Planning & Analytics (SWP & A) you are a vital partner and consultant within the global organization. You will be responsible for driving workforce planning and reporting processes to ensure that client units have the appropriate size, shape, talent, skills, and capabilities to meet both current and future business needs.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Co-develop and implement global workforce planning processes, systems, best practices and frameworks
• Integrate workforce planning processes with the organization's broader strategic and financial objectives
• Analyze the current workforce to identify skills, capabilities, competencies, and potential gaps
• Forecast workforce demand considering business growth, emerging skill needs, and market trends
• Bring external perspectives on talent and skills to enhance workforce plans and talent supply strategies
• Drive insights to HR and business leaders through Controlling and People Analytics activities across the business units and in alignment with the strategy
• Apply predictive analytics to workforce data to anticipate risks (e.g., turnover, skill gaps) and create proactive talent plans
• Develop contingency plans for unforeseen workforce challenges
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA where applicable)
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Finance, and IT to align workforce plans with hiring, training, and budget strategies
• Education in business administration, economics, human resources or similar
• HR leadership experience, with a focus on strategy, workforce planning, and analytics
• Proven track record of driving organizational change and implementing data-driven HR practices
• Strong expertise in workforce planning, headcount and cost of labor budgeting and forecasting, and predictive analytics
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to financial planning processes from a SWP&A perspective and align initiatives with Long-Range Planning (LRP) and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) objectives
• Advanced experience with HR management systems (e.g. SAP SuccessFactors), SAP BI, visualization tools (e.g. Tableau or Power BI), Workforce planning systems (Anaplan, Visier etc) controlling tools (e.g. HFM) as well as MS Office
• Ability to translate data insights into actionable workforce strategies and stories
• Strong understanding of data governance standards and practices
• Possess extensive change management experience, particularly in managing large-scale, fast-paced projects, both independently and guiding others
• Ability to operate at both a strategic and operational level within a complex matrix organization and manage diverse stakeholder relationships
• Oral and written fluency in English

Together, we're on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It's a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world's leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization's Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we're always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.