SWP Manager

Oakleaf Partnership; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning Manager to shape the workforce of the future. This pivotal role involves partnering with senior leaders to translate workforce needs into actionable plans, ensuring the organization is prepared for upcoming challenges and opportunities. You will drive workforce planning initiatives, analyze key disruptors, and benchmark against industry trends to provide insightful recommendations. If you are a data-driven and strategic thinker passionate about workforce planning, this is your chance to make a significant impact on organizational success.

Qualifications

• Strategic mindset with long-term thinking ability.
• Strong analytical skills to convert data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to identify future critical workforce needs.
• Analyze workforce disruptors and assess their impact on strategy.
• Develop best practices and internal capability in workforce planning.

Skills

Strategic Workforce Planning

Analytical Skills

Influencing Skills

Data Interpretation

Adaptability

Job description

Strategic Workforce Planning Manager

Location: Welwyn Garden City – 3 days a week – 2 days wfh
Competitive Salary + Benefits

Shape the Workforce of the Future

Are you passionate about future-proofing organisations through strategic workforce planning? We’re looking for a Strategic Workforce Planning Manager to partner with senior leaders and directors, translating workforce needs into meaningful, actionable plans that prepare the business for the future of work.

About the Role

As a Strategic Workforce Planning Manager, you will drive workforce planning across the organisation, helping the business anticipate and respond to key workforce disruptors, emerging skills, and changing market trends over a 3-5 year horizon.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with business leaders to identify critical workforce segments, roles, and skills needed for the future.

Analyse workforce disruptors and assess their impact on future workforce strategy.

Benchmark the organisation against competitors, industries, and market trends to develop insight-driven recommendations.

Develop external insight to challenge and inspire new thinking around workforce strategies.

Lead the development of workforce strategies, balancing build, buy, borrow, and reskilling approaches.

Validate workforce assumptions by continuously measuring and refining supply and demand models.

Support the design of the future organisation, identifying areas for investment and divestment.

Develop best practices and build internal capability across workforce planning communities of practice.

What You’ll Need:

A strategic, future-focused mindset with the ability to think long-term.

Strong analytical skills-able to turn data into insight and tell compelling stories that drive action.

Confidence working with senior leaders to influence workforce decisions.

A self-driven approach, comfortable working in ambiguity and adapting as the organisation evolves.

The ability to challenge and provoke new thinking through external benchmarking and insights.

This role offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of strategic workforce planning, ensuring the organisation has the right skills, capabilities, and structures in place for long-term success. If you’re a curious, data-driven, and forward-thinking workforce planning expert, we’d love to hear from you!