Legacy London Recruitment
Workforce Planning Lead
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Workforce Planning Lead
Are you passionate about turning business strategy into workforce plans that drive performance? One of the world's most iconic luxury Brands are recruiting for a Workforce Planning Lead to shape and deliver their workforce planning approach, helping leaders make informed decisions about talent, capability, capacity, and cost. This is a high-impact role that combines data-driven insight, strategic thinking, and stakeholder engagement.
Role includes
- Lead workforce planning across a complex organization, translating business goals into actionable people plans.
- Develop workforce forecasts, scenario models, and headcount plans.
- Partner with senior leaders, HR, and Finance to identify future workforce needs and risks.
- Provide insight on workforce cost, skills, capacity, and organization design.
- Improve workforce reporting and planning processes through data, automation, and analytics.
- Support strategic decisions with evidence-based recommendations.
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Workforce Planning
- Build and own the organization's workforce planning approach, method, and annual planning cycle.
- Define the workforce drivers for each business area — the volume, programme, product cycle, and
Headcount and Establishment Governance
- Own the establishment record: every approved and funded role, filled or vacant, with its position in the structure.
Organisation Design
- Act as custodian of the organisation design principles, ensuring proposed structures are tested against them before approval rather than after implementation.
Contingent Workforce
- Build and maintain a complete picture of the contractor and agency population: numbers, duration, cost, location, capability, and the reason each engagement exists.
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Analytics, Insight, and Capability
- Turn workforce data into practical insight for People and business leaders, covering headcount, vacancies, attrition, workforce cost, location, and workforce mix.
What we're looking for
- Experience in workforce planning, people analytics, finance, HR strategy, or a related field.
- Strong analytical and modelling skills, including advanced Excel capability.
- Ability to turn complex data into clear, practical insights.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders and influencing decision-making.
- Commercially minded with a strong understanding of workforce costs and planning.
- Experience in a complex operational environment is advantageous.
The company offers an excellent salary and benefit package, including a company bonus and hybrid working.
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