Workforce Planning Business Partner

SF Partners; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

SF Partners in the United Kingdom is seeking a Workforce Planning professional to connect strategy, people and insight, shaping workforce plans and scenarios to support business decisions. The role involves leading planning frameworks, identifying future skills, and turning data into actionable insights.

You will partner with senior leaders to embed workforce planning across business planning, champion equity, and translate insights into practical talent and development plans.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in strategic workforce planning, strategic HR or organisational planning.
• Deep knowledge of workforce planning frameworks, future skills and organisational capability.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to make complex workforce data meaningful.
• Experience translating workforce plans into talent and capability strategies.
• A strong understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion in workforce decision-making.
• The confidence and credibility to influence senior leaders.
• A collaborative, proactive and solutions-focused approach.
• The ability to build trust, challenge thinking and embed new ways of working

Responsibilities

• Design and lead our strategic workforce planning framework.
• Identify the skills, capabilities and capacity we'll need for the future.
• Turn workforce data into clear insight, forecasts and scenarios that support better decisions.
• Partner with senior leaders to make workforce planning a core part of business planning and decision-making.
• Work with People and Talent colleagues to turn workforce insights into practical talent, succession and capability plans.
• Help shape career pathways, internal mobility and development opportunities.
• Identify workforce risks early and help leaders take action.
• Champion an equity-based approach, ensuring our plans support a diverse and inclusive workforce

Skills

Workforce planning

HR analytics

Stakeholder influence

Diversity & inclusion

Strategic thinking

Job description

What you'll do

You'll connect strategy, people and insight - helping us understand the workforce we have today, what we'll need tomorrow and how we close the gap.

• Design and lead our strategic workforce planning framework.
• Identify the skills, capabilities and capacity we'll need for the future.
• Turn workforce data into clear insight, forecasts and scenarios that support better decisions.
• Partner with senior leaders to make workforce planning a core part of business planning and decision-making.
• Work with People and Talent colleagues to turn workforce insights into practical talent, succession and capability plans.
• Help shape career pathways, internal mobility and development opportunities.
• Identify workforce risks early and help leaders take action.
• Champion an equity-based approach, ensuring our plans support a diverse and inclusive workforce.

What you'll bring

You know that great workforce planning is about much more than headcount.

You can look at where an organisation is going, understand what that means for its people and turn complex information into practical action.

• Strong experience in strategic workforce planning, strategic HR or organisational planning.
• Deep knowledge of workforce planning frameworks, future skills and organisational capability.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to make complex workforce data meaningful.
• Experience translating workforce plans into talent and capability strategies.
• A strong understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion in workforce decision-making.
• The confidence and credibility to influence senior leaders.
• A collaborative, proactive and solutions-focused approach.
• The ability to build trust, challenge thinking and embed new ways of working

National: £44,227-£48,650 | London: £48,284-£53,113

12-month fixed-term contract | Hybrid

Location: Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester or Newcastle