Wade Macdonald
Strategic Workforce Planning & People Analytics Lead
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Strategic Workforce Planning & People Analytics Lead – Salisbury
Location: Salisbury
Working Pattern: 60% on site
Contract Length: 6 months
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
About the Job
This is a senior workforce planning and analytics role with responsibility for shaping strategic workforce decisions through data, forecasting, and insight. You will lead workforce planning activity, develop analytical capability, and support senior stakeholders with evidence-based recommendations around workforce priorities, investment, and organizational capability.
Duties will include:
- Leading the development and annual delivery of the organization’s strategic workforce plan.
- Creating workforce supply and demand forecasts to support long-term planning.
- Carrying out workforce capability reviews and identifying strategic people risks.
- Developing scenario models to support future workforce requirements.
- Presenting workforce recommendations and insights to senior and executive stakeholders.
- Supporting workforce prioritization and investment decisions using robust evidence and analysis.
- Leading the development of workforce dashboards, reporting, and people analytics.
- Producing trend analysis, forecasts, and research to support organizational decision-making.
- Improving workforce data quality, reporting standards, and analytical processes.
- Coordinating the implementation and embedding of workforce operating models.
- Developing governance processes, procedures, and supporting documentation.
- Managing implementation risks, actions, and interdependencies across workforce initiatives.
- Coordinating workforce planning governance forums and steering groups.
- Supporting workforce capability development and interventions arising from workforce planning.
- Analyzing complex data sets using a range of quantitative and qualitative techniques.
- Using Excel to manipulate, interrogate, and present workforce information.
- Translating workforce data into clear, practical recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Managing multiple projects and priorities across a broad stakeholder group.
- Providing specialist workforce planning and people analytics advice across the organization.
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You will have significant experience leading strategic workforce planning within a complex organization, alongside strong people analytics and workforce modelling capability. You will be confident using advanced Excel and analyzing complex datasets, with experience of forecasting, scenario planning, governance, and executive-level stakeholder engagement. Experience with Power BI would be advantageous. A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience in a quantitative or business-related discipline is required.
What You Will Receive in Return
You will take on a high-profile six-month assignment with significant exposure to strategic workforce planning, people analytics, and organizational decision-making. The role offers the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders, shape workforce priorities, and lead meaningful improvements in workforce insight, governance, and planning capability.
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