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Strategic Workforce Planning & People Analytics Lead
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Strategic Workforce Planning & People Analytics Lead
Contract – 6 Months
Inside IR35
£620/day (Umbrella)
Porton Down, Salisbury – 3 days per week
SC Clearance Required
The Role
We're looking for an experienced Strategic Workforce Planning & People Analytics Lead to help embed a strategic workforce planning capability within a complex, security-sensitive organisation. This is a high-impact role for someone who can blend strategic thinking, data analysis and senior stakeholder management to turn workforce data into evidence-based recommendations that shape real decisions.
You'll lead on workforce forecasting, capability assessment, scenario planning and analytics, while playing a key role in embedding a new Resource Management Operating Model across the organisation.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading the development, maintenance and annual publication of the organisation's Strategic Workforce Plan
- Building workforce supply and demand forecasts, and leading scenario planning and modelling activity
- Producing dashboards, analytical products and trend research that turn complex data into clear insight
- Presenting workforce recommendations directly to Executive-level stakeholders
- Coordinating the implementation of a new Resource Management Operating Model — governance, processes, risks and dependencies
- Running Quarterly Workforce Planning Steering Groups and maintaining workforce establishment governance
- Translating analysis into practical interventions and strategic workforce decisions
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What You'll Bring
- Significant experience leading strategic workforce planning within a complex organisation
- Strong people analytics skills — dashboards, trend analysis, workforce insight and reporting
- Experience with multivariate, regression, factor and thematic analysis
- Advanced Excel (formulas, pivot tables, macros); Power BI experience desirable
- A track record of building evidence-based cases for senior and Executive audiences
- Experience implementing workforce operating models or organisational transformation programmes
- Strong governance, facilitation and stakeholder management skills
- A degree in Business, Data Science, Economics, Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Engineering (or equivalent practical experience)
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Submit an up-to-date CV with clear evidence against: strategic workforce planning, workforce modelling and forecasting, people analytics, complex data analysis, executive stakeholder engagement, workforce governance, organisational transformation, and Excel/Power BI proficiency.
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