Transport for Greater Manchester
Workforce Planning Manager
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We are seeking an experienced Resourcing Partner (Strategic Workforce Planning) to join our welcoming and collaborative People team on a 12-month fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping TfGM's future workforce, working with senior leaders to identify workforce risks, critical skills requirements and future capability needs. You will help translate organisational priorities into practical workforce plans, ensuring TfGM has the right people, skills and capacity to deliver its long-term ambitions and continue providing excellent services across Greater Manchester.
Are you passionate about shaping the workforce of the future? We are seeking an experienced Resourcing Partner (Strategic Workforce Planning) to join our welcoming and collaborative People team on a 12-month fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave.
This is a unique opportunity to play a leading role in embedding Strategic Workforce Planning across TfGM, helping ensure we have the right people, skills and capability to deliver our long-term ambitions. Working across a diverse organisation, you will partner with senior leaders to identify future workforce needs, workforce risks and talent priorities, translating business strategy into practical workforce plans.
Your Role
Reporting to the Senior Resourcing Manager, you will act as the subject matter expert in Strategic Workforce Planning.
You will lead and facilitate Strategic Workforce Planning activities, supporting leaders to understand current and future workforce requirements, identify critical roles and capability gaps and develop evidence-based plans to address workforce risks. Working closely with HR, L&OD, Finance and managers, you will use workforce data and insight to shape decisions on talent, succession, skills development, organisational design and future resource requirements.
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You will help move the organisation from reactive vacancy management towards a more proactive, long-term approach to workforce planning, ensuring workforce decisions are aligned to business priorities, financial sustainability and future service delivery requirements.
Who are we?
You will be joining a supportive and high-performing Resourcing team within TfGM, where collaboration and service excellence are at the heart of everything we do. Our team plays a vital role in attracting and recruiting the talent needed to deliver transport services and key infrastructure across Greater Manchester.
This role offers a great opportunity to make a tangible impact, support organisational priorities, and contribute to meaningful work that benefits communities across the region.
What you’ll bring
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
You will bring experience of workforce planning, resourcing, business partnering or a related field, together with the ability to build credibility and influence at senior levels.
You will be comfortable working with workforce data and insight to identify trends, risks and opportunities, and able to translate complex information into practical workforce solutions. You will possess excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and influence strategic decision-making.
Experience of strategic workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, organisational design or workforce analytics would be particularly beneficial, alongside a CIPD qualification (or equivalent experience).
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What we can offer you
This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity offering the chance to join a friendly and supportive team, where you can develop your skills and make a real impact. You will gain exposure to a wide range of recruitment activity across the organisation, with opportunities to contribute to service improvement and ongoing resourcing initiatives.
- A fixed-term role with a salary of £43,210 £56,195 per annum depending on skills and experience.
- At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.
Our benefits include:
- Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service
- Free travel on buses, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work
- Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary
- Enhanced family-friendly leave policies and hybrid working options
- Access to wellbeing support, development opportunities and employee assistance
This role requires 40% of your working week in the office.
What's next?
If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you.
To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter outlining how your experience meets the requirements of the role. All appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on these documents.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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