Workforce Planning Lead

Conceptionx; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector is seeking a Workforce Planning Lead to oversee the planning processes across various departments. This role focuses on ensuring an efficient workforce aligned with business needs and customer experience metrics, enhancing operational performance. Candidates should be passionate about delivering customer-centric solutions and possess strong leadership capabilities.

Benefits

Generous pension and bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience in workforce planning and/or modelling.
• Passionate about customer service and championing it at work.
• Ability to communicate effectively across all business levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of the Workforce Planning process.
• Work closely with stakeholders to develop forecasting models.
• Develop the Work Force Planning framework for operational leaders.

Skills

Team Leadership

Statistical Analysis

Customer Focus

Communication

Problem Solving

Job description

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Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Job Purpose

To support end-to-end delivery and management of Workforce Planning across various departments that will enable the business to deliver theright people, in theright places, at theright time, with theright skills and knowledge, and at theright costtoaccelerate our customer experience, deliver our SLA's for our Stakeholders and our Customers.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of the Workforce Planning (WFP) process and tool across CS.
• Work closely with technical and functional stakeholders within the Sales, Technology (SP), People Experience team to ensure we have a forecasting model that delivers against projected business across all product lines.
• Develop and educate our Operational Leaders on the Work Force Planning framework (leveraging the continuous improvement method, aligned to our strategy) that allows us to assess our capability, understand operational gaps preventing us from delivering our service against SLA metrics.
• Lead cross-functional projects to deliver improvements where applicable
• Champion the customer throughout our organisation, working with peers to embed a customer centric culture, particularly through operational effectiveness and opportunities to deliver excellence through service metrics. Work collaboratively with other business units and departments to ensure we deliver a consistent experience for Canada Life customers.
• To build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels throughout the company and with external partners as appropriate
  
  

Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• Experience in workforce planning and/or workforce modelling
• Passionate about putting the customer first, and a keen desire to champion this in their role.
• In-depth knowledge of a customer experience environment.
• Excellent numeracy and a robust understanding of statistical analysis. Understanding of customer research methodologies.
• Capable of identifying the root cause of problems by using data to find solutions to improve efficiencies and improved operational metrics across CS.
• Delivery focused, with high energy and drive and ability to deliver through others.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the business and with customers.
• Can communicate with impact and engage teams in gaining a deeper customer experience understanding. Can present to and get buy-in from senior leaders.
• Able to balance and delegate multiple tasks and initiatives within strict deadlines.
• Ability to evolve with the evolution of the role and business.
  
  

Benefits of working at Canada Life

We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that's regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you'll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.

How We Work At Canada Life

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward.

We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That's why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop.

Diversity and inclusion

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progress we're making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.

"At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all." Nick Harding, Chief People Officer, Canada Life UK

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.

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