Strategic Workforce Planning Partner

Tesco Hungary; Slough, Manchester, Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational retail company in Slough is seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning Partner to align workforce strategies with organizational goals. The role involves managing the workforce planning process, utilizing data to improve people strategies, and influencing senior leadership. Strong analytical and project management skills are essential, along with experience in HR systems. The position promotes an inclusive culture, with flexible working patterns available.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Inclusive culture

Diversity and accessibility support

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and proficiency required.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities needed.
• Experience with HR management systems like Oracle Cloud is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Drive alignment of the workforce with strategic priorities.
• Lead the quarterly workforce process and ensure integration with other processes.
• Continuously improve processes to align with talent strategy.
• Develop the current workforce planning platform for optimal engagement.
• Link talent allocation to value creation.
• Support team leaders in critical talent decisions.

Skills

Strong analytical skills and proficiency

Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Project management skills

Ability to engage and influence senior leaders

Familiarity with human capital trends

Experience with HR management systems

Knowledge of business strategy and operations

Expertise in data management

Experience with platform ownership

Experience in an agile business

Tools

Oracle Cloud

Job description

We are currently recruiting a Strategic Workforce Planning Partner to drive the alignment of Tesco Mobile's workforce with its strategic priorities.

This role involves iterating and driving the SWP process, leading the quarterly workforce process, improving the organisation's use of people data and products, and ensuring integration with/ development of broader people processes such as recruitment/talent/performance. This position is crucial for crafting the workforce to unlock value creation and support the organisation's long-term goals.

• Iterate and implement the strategic workforce planning process to align with Tesco Mobile's strategic goals
• Coordinate and drive the quarterly workforce planning process with our teams, ensuring it integrates seamlessly with other people processes
• Continuously consider how we can improve processes to align with strategic workforce planning and talent strategy, focusing on crafting a positive employee experience
• Take ownership of and develop the current workforce planning platform (TeamForm) to optimise engagement around workforce management and strategy alignment
• Work back from strategic priorities to proactively build a strategic view of the future workforce and how we can achieve our organisational outcome
• Continuously link talent allocation to value creation, identifying and proactively addressing talent gaps
• Ensure the SWP process integrates effectively with broader people processes
• Challenge and support team leaders and CoE leads to think critically about talent possibilities and decisions, promoting critical approaches
• Have a passion for people data, ensuring accuracy and relevance and develop metrics to understand the state of talent and the health/status of talent processes (e.g., recruiting funnel metrics)
• Effectively engage and influence senior leaders to adopt and support the SWP process, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement

• Strong analytical skills and proficiency
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Project management skills to navigate multiple partners and interaction patterns
• Ability to engage and influence senior leaders to drive process adoption and alignment with strategic goals Desired Skills
• Familiarity with human capital trends and macro-economic factors affecting workforce composition
• Experience with HR management systems like Oracle Cloud
• Knowledge of business strategy and operations
• Expertise in data management and quality improvement techniques
• Experience with platform ownership and adoption
• Previous experience working within an agile business - desirable

A 50-50 joint venture between Tesco and VMO2 that was established back in 2003, Tesco Mobile has gone from strength to strength as we’ve launched into new services and markets. With more than 5 million customers, we’re the largest mobile virtual network operator in the UK. We’re proud to have an inclusive culture that’s uniquely Tesco Mobile, with a strong sense of community, plus all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders.

We care for human connection and we keep our customers at the heart of everything we do, which is why we’ve embraced the Agile way of working. Agile is more than just a methodology – it’s a liberating journey that puts customers and purpose first. It empowers us to self-organise, collaborate, co-create and rapidly inspect and adapt everything we do – allowing us to respond at pace to our customers’ needs. It encourages variety of thought and enables us to thrive, both individually and collectively.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities.We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.