IT Strategic Workforce Planning Advisor

TN United Kingdom; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking an IT Strategic Workforce Planning Advisor to enhance workforce transformations. This role involves establishing effective analytics practices, mentoring team members, and collaborating with various IT divisions and HR to ensure strategic workforce planning. The ideal candidate will possess a strong data-driven mindset, excellent communication skills, and a passion for workforce transformation. Join a dynamic and multidisciplinary team to help shape the future of work in a fast-paced environment, where your insights will directly influence organizational performance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in IT and strategic workforce planning.
• Strong data-driven approach with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise on workforce transformations and establish analytics practices.
• Collaborate with IT divisions and HR to drive workforce performance.

Skills

Analytical Problem Solving

Data Analysis

Communication

Workforce Transformation

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Management

Master's degree in Business

Tools

Data Reporting Tools

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26.04.2025

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10.06.2025

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Job Description:

Division: TMS plays a key role as your trusted advisor providing steer, governance, and processes to all the other IT divisions to make the IT Transformation a reality.

IT organization has an ambitious IT Strategy for the next 3-5 years. To be able to meet our strategic goals it is important to understand the gaps vs the needed Workforce and ensure that relevant plans and actions are defined to enable the right people at the right time and with the right skills.

Strategic workforce planning team has as ambition to enable this process for the IT organization.

The team already offers foundation services such as expertise risks management across all the IT organization and a standard Strategic Workforce Planning process is being defined via collaboration with HR, Cost Management, and external consultancy partners. In providing the service of the Expertise Risks Management, the team works closely with Tribe/Department leads across all IT, IT division offices and IT division heads.

We have developed a standard list of IT generic roles/Families of jobs to be able to aggregate and identify workforce gaps, and we are also building an approach to IT skills. In parallel, we are also working on the selection of a Strategic Workforce Planning Tooling that will help us to generate and maintain workforce plans.

A Strategic Workforce Planning process seeks at systematically analyzing the current state of the workforce, at making predictions about what this workforce will need to be within a 3-years horizon, and at taking proactive measures to bridge the gap between these two states.

This can lead to recruitment plans, training programs for re-skilling the current workforce, hiring proficiencies from partners etc.

We are looking to enrich our team with new members that can help us in

• Setting up a strategic workforce planning function and COE
• Deliver current services to the IT organization such as Managing Expertise Risks
• Enable the IT organization to have its Strategic Workforce Planning and related actions.

We aim at achieving the above via demonstrating analytics, industry insights and SWP experience in order to enable business performance through people performance. Influences such as technology, and innovative ways of collaboration are redefining the who, what, where, and why of work.

DevOps, Cloud, AI, Data, agile, new ways of working, hybrid workplace are all important influencers to workforce shifts, and these are only some of the influencers on today's workforce. As part of the IT SWP team, you assist in ensuring that the right preparation, investment, and actions are taken to enable the human capital being internal employees, contractors or outsourcing partners to contribute to achieving strategic objectives in a dynamic and exiting workplace.

About the role:

• Be a trusted advisor on workforce transformations for the IT organization, anticipating and bringing to bear the changes to come via critical initiatives, new ways of working and transforming workforce in a future-focused and data-driven way.
• Establish effective analytics practices, turning data into insight to tell the story of workforce transformation and craft its strategic direction.
• Pioneer – you are constantly looking to involve new insights and methods in everything we do.
• Be an expert and influencer on the ever-evolving topic of workforce transformation!
• Mentor the team towards results and be an inspiring collaborator.
• Be part of the Strategic Workforce Planning team in IT, and of a multidisciplinary and multiskilled department (ISS) with experts in Sourcing Strategy, Outsourcing, Tech vendors, Risks and Controls on IT vendors.
• Collaborate in an ecosystem of professional which contains IT Divisions and Human Resources, IT leaders.

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Master's degree in management, Economics, Business, Human Resources, IT, Financial controlling & Financial planning especially related to IT and IT labor costs
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience (preferably 10 - 15 years) in IT, consulting, strategic workforce planning, sourcing strategy and or sourcing initiatives, IT workforce Transformation, HR ecosystem and Human Capital Management, Financial controlling, Customer Management, project management
• Data-driven, analytical problem solver with a reputation for translating promising strategies into pragmatic implementations
• Excellent, intelligent communicator, enabling you to quickly build relationships and credibility inside and outside of our organization
• Able to rationalize sophisticated information to make it understandable for others to work with
• A standout colleague who is relationship-focused and keen on sharing knowledge and inspiring others in an international company context
• Ability to work closely in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Knowledge of IT skills and competencies, with an understanding of emerging technologies
• Proficient in data analysis and reporting tools
• Fluency in English, including speaking, writing, editing and presenting