Strategic Workforce Planning Leader

Elliott Scott - HR search & recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Elliott Scott - HR search & recruitment is partnering with a leading global investment management organisation to appoint a Head of Workforce Planning. This newly created leadership role will establish Workforce Planning as a new enterprise capability across the business.

You will build a Centre of Excellence, drive governance, analytics and strategic recommendations, and influence senior stakeholders to embed workforce planning as a core capability globally.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading Workforce Planning across a complex, global or matrixed organisation.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale workforce transformation and building new organisational capabilities.
• Strong expertise across operational and strategic workforce planning, workforce analytics and scenario modelling.
• Experience partnering closely with Finance, HR, People Analytics, Talent and senior business leadership.
• Strong understanding of external Workforce Planning best practice, emerging technologies and future workforce trends, including AI and skills-based organisations.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead a new enterprise Workforce Planning capability, initially focused on operational workforce planning.
• Partner with Finance and senior business leaders to develop consistent workforce planning processes, governance, data and decision-making frameworks.
• Develop and embed a strategic workforce planning capability, translating business strategy into future workforce demand, critical skills and capability requirements.
• Build and lead a Workforce Planning Centre of Excellence, establishing best practice, methodologies and operating standards across the organisation.
• Partner with HRBPs, People Analytics, Talent and business leaders to deliver workforce insights, scenario modelling and strategic recommendations.
• Use workforce data and intelligence to inform decisions around growth, productivity, automation, skills and organisational capability.
• Lead large-scale workforce transformation programmes and introduce emerging technologies, workforce intelligence platforms and innovative planning approaches.
• Influence senior stakeholders and drive adoption of workforce planning as a core enterprise capability across a complex, global organisation.

Skills

Workforce Planning

Workforce analytics

Scenario modelling

Stakeholder management

AI and skills-based organisations

Job description

Elliott Scott - HR search & recruitment is partnering with a leading global investment management organisation to appoint a Head of Workforce Planning. This newly created leadership role will establish Workforce Planning as a new enterprise capability across the business.

You will build a Centre of Excellence, drive governance, analytics and strategic recommendations, and influence senior stakeholders to embed workforce planning as a core capability globally.