Strategic Workforce Planning and Skills Manager (18 Month FTC)

Leeds Building Society; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Annual bonus

Matched pension contributions

26 days holiday

Volunteer days

Job summary

Leeds Building Society is hiring for a People Enablement SWP and Skills Manager. You will lead evidence-based workforce and skills planning, translating strategy into practical future capability and critical-role requirements.

You will combine workforce data with labour-market insight to assess demand, model scenarios and guide actions across build, borrow or automate options, while maintaining planning standards and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Advanced ability to combine and interpret workforce, skills, financial and external data.
• Proficient use of planning, analytics and collaboration tools for workforce planning.
• Ability to translate strategy into future workforce requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic workforce and skills planning across the Society.
• Translate strategy and operating models into capability, capacity and role needs.
• Model demand and supply, and guide actions such as build, buy or redeploy.

Skills

Data literacy

Digital literacy

Teamwork

Adaptability

Creative thinking

Customer centricity

Empathy

Relationship management

Job description

How you'll help us live our purpose

We've been helping our members save for their future and buy their own home since 1875. Join us and you'll play a big role in helping us to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.

It's a purpose that drives everything we do. And you can play your part too – join our People Enablement team as an SWP and Skills Manager and we'll support you to lead evidence-based workforce and skills planning that turns strategy and change into practical workforce choices.

How you'll make a difference

In a brand-new team, you'll be joining at the start of an exciting journey as we build a new, consistent, evidence-led approach to workforce and skills planning across the Society.

You'll lead strategic workforce and skills planning by translating strategy, target operating models and change portfolios into clear future capability, capacity and critical-role requirements.

You'll combine workforce evidence, skills intelligence and labour-market insight to assess demand and supply, model scenarios and develop sequenced build, buy, borrow, redeploy or automate actions. You'll assess readiness for target operating model changes, provide constructive challenge and quality assurance, and guide the Workforce Planner while strengthening consistent planning standards and capability across the Society.

What will you bring to the role?

• Data Literacy – advanced ability to combine and interpret workforce, skills, financial, operational and external data, clearly explaining assumptions, limitations and uncertainty
• Digital Literacy – advanced use of approved planning, analytics and collaboration tools to make workforce planning faster, more consistent and transparent
• Teamwork – advanced ability to clarify roles, coordinate interdependent work and support shared problem-solving so contributors deliver coherent, timely workforce plans
• Adaptability – advanced ability to adapt workforce plans and scenarios as strategy, change, target operating models and assumptions evolve
• Creative Thinking – advanced ability to create and test practical workforce options using scenario evidence, labour-market insight and stakeholder perspectives
• Customer Centricity – advanced ability to connect workforce choices to member, customer and colleague outcomes while balancing service, cost, risk and delivery
• Empathy – advanced ability to consider how workforce change affects different groups and support fair, workable transitions while maintaining constructive challenge
• Relationship Management – expert ability to build trusted partnerships across business, Finance, People, change and data teams, challenge assumptions and resolve trade-offs

And in return, you'll get the best from us:

• Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office
• Annual bonus of up to 12%
• Matched pension contributions up to 10%
• 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme
• Colleague Mortgage and Saver products
• 2 days' volunteering per year

We'll give you a place to belong with the support to learn, develop and shape a meaningful career.

Why choose us?

Our business is centred around our people. Our colleagues are at the heart of everything we do, as shown by our Inclusive Employers Gold accreditation in 2023 and 2025. We're committed to equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.

You'll be joining a truly purpose-focused culture which helped us win the Leading with Purpose award at the 2023Business Culture Awards. This recognises how we've embedded our purpose with our colleagues, and the actions we've taken to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.

We're devoted to creating a culture and workplace that is representative of the communities we serve. If you'd like to work with us but are unsure if you meet the full criteria for a role, please contact the recruiter so we can find out more about your skills and experience. We're committed to supporting you to be at your best - to discuss any reasonable adjustments we could make, please contact us on [e-mail].

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