Strategic Workforce Manager - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer located in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a Workforce Planning leader to strategize and innovate workforce insights for the future. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, strategic thinking, and an ability to engage with senior leaders. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing for flexibility in working arrangements. Competitive benefits include an annual bonus, extensive holiday, and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme

25 days holiday plus personal day

Private medical insurance

Maternity and adoption leave

Virtual GP service

Qualifications

• Ability to use data analysis and interpretation.
• Long-term strategic thinking and thought leadership.
• Effective storytelling with comprehensive data.
• Experience working with senior leaders.
• Self-driven and able to handle ambiguity.
• Creative in developing new tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to identify key workforce segments.
• Analyze workforce disruptors and future implications.
• Develop workforce strategies and frameworks.
• Utilize data to create workforce insights.
• Support the development of the Organisation Of The Future.

Skills

Analytical approach

Strategic thinking

Storytelling with data

Stakeholder engagement

Innovative approach

Job description

Overview

Tesco UK • Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City • Apply by 19-Sep-2025

In this pivotal role, you will drive Workforce Planning across the entire Tesco Group, collaborating closely with business leaders and directors to prepare our organisation for the future. Your leadership will be key in crafting and developing workforce insights, and redefining requirements into actionable, impactful plans.

What is in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years\' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

You will be responsible for

• Partner the business to understand the strategically and/or operationally critical workforce segments (roles & skills) over a 3-5 year horizon
• Identify the key workforce disruptors and challenges, and the implications they have on the future of work in Tesco
• Build an external view of how Tesco benchmarks against markets, industries and competitors
• Lead the collaborative development of workforce strategies, preparing the organisation with the right; build, buy, borrow and re-skilling strategy
• Assist in the creation of Strategic Workforce Plan framework including the design, build and implementation of tools and process to enable workforce analysis and planning.
• Utilise data internally and externally to develop workforce insights and strategies to prepare the organisation workforce of the future.
• Unlock performance by continuously validating and measuring workforce assumptions applied to future supply & demand scenarios
• Support the development of the Organisation Of The Future, identifying investment & divestment opportunities, aligned to the business strategy
• Develop best practice and build internal capability across Group communities of practice

You will need

• Analytical approach / questioning including use of data analysis and interpretation
• Strategic longer term thinking / bringing the outside in providing thought leadership and developing strategic proposals
• Can story tell with comprehensive data and insights-(the so what)
• Comfortable working with senior leaders and undertaking extensive stakeholder engagement
• Self driven and able to work with ambiguity, with the ability to learn Tesco group at pace applying a broad approach.
• Innovative and creative approach to craft new tools, working with across the people operating model areas to ensure an interconnected approach

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About us

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At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you\'re just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we\'re here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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