Senior Manager, Global (DTTL) Workforce Strategy and Planning CoE Leader, Belfast

Deloitte

  • Belfast
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 23 days ago
Connect to your IndustryThe Global (DTTL) People team supports our talented, forward-thinking professionals with a broad range of development, well-being, and engagement programs to enhance their professional and personal journeys. We provide top-notch, leading-edge thinking and advisory support and partner with our businesses to ensure our professionals develop the right skills and talents to deliver on ambitious priorities.Connect to your career at DeloitteDeloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunityThe Global Workforce Strategy & Planning CoE Leader leads the development and execution of global (DTTL) workforce strategies for a complex, matrixed organization that align with our business objectives. This role proactively shapes the global talent strategy, anticipating future talent needs, and developing innovative solutions to address emerging challenges and opportunities. This role also leads the development and implementation of workforce plans, demand forecasting, and scenario planning; navigating complex market and geopolitical factors to ensure the organization's long-term talent advantage. Finally, this role requires extensive collaboration across the global organization, including senior and c-suite leadership, to ensure alignment and successful implementation of ambitious and innovative workforce plans. This role is essential to DTTL's long-term success and is expected to evolve by emphasizing skills-based workforce planning, AI integration, advanced analytics, and succession planning to ensure continued leadership in this specialized area.The Global Workforce Strategy & Planning COE Leader is responsible to:
  • Oversee strategy and planning for 28 global business areas, influencing workforce decision impacting upwards of 11,000 professionals.
  • Drive the development and implementation of workforce plans, demand forecasting, and scenario planning to support organizational talent strategy.
  • Advise senior leaders and business units on strategic talent decisions, ensuring alignment with operating model commitments and organizational objectives.
  • Oversee client-facing workforce planning services, managing a personal client portfolio and ensuring optimal talent deployment for internal and external clients.
  • Lead and develop a team of 8 workforce planning professionals, providing mentorship and upskilling to deliver workforce plans, hiring advisory, demand forecasting, scenario planning, and strategic advisory services.
  • Oversee complex workforce analyses and modeling to support performance monitoring, cost optimization, and benefits realization from global initiatives, while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Connect to your skills and professional experienceEssentials:
  • Experience in workforce strategy, planning, and analytics within a complex, global organization or equivalent.
  • Strong leadership and team development skills, with experience managing high-performing teams of no less than 5 professionals.
  • Advanced analytical and modeling expertise, including scenario planning, demand forecasting, and proficiency with workforce analytics tools (e.g., Visier).
  • Excellent stakeholder management and advisory skills with senior executives.
  • Proven ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement in workforce planning processes.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, able to convey complex information clearly.
Desirables:
  • Certification in workforce planning, data science, or people analytics, or equivalent.
  • Experience leading technical capabilities such as scenario forecasting or data science.
  • Demonstrated success building complex, long-term workforce plans for large, matrixed organizations (10,000+ employees).
  • Knowledge of Deloitte or similarly complex multinational organizations (e.g., professional or financial services).
  • Experience partnering with Finance to align workforce and financial plans.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodology, project management, and knowledge of GCCs (Global Capability Centres) or DCs (Delivery Centres).
Connect to your business - Enabling FunctionsCollaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.Personal independenceRegulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.Connect with your colleagues"Everyone at Deloitte builds relationships with their peers and puts in effort to get to know one another, making the work more enjoyable." - Deloitte employeeOur hybrid working policyYou'll be based in Belfast with hybrid working.At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.Our commitment to youMaking an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.Connect to your next stepA career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careersWPFULL SLICSS BAGLOB LOCBEL

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