Head of Workforce Planning & Insight

• Up to £90k base salary
• 15% bonus
• 6% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture

• Lead the development and implementation of Arqiva's Strategic Workforce Planning Management, and People Data Insights, strategy that supports organisational objectives.

• Acts as trusted advisor to Exco, the Director of HR Operations and People Directors to shape workforce planning strategies aligned with Arqiva strategy, function and financial plans.

• Provides strategic challenge and direction on future capability needs, and long-term workforce investment as well as risks and opportunities.

• Oversees a framework to translate the business context and strategy into strategic and operational workforce demands

• Oversees frameworks and models to assess the workforce supply, both internally and externally, operationally, and strategically, using demographics and external workforce data models

• Creates the frameworks for gap analysis to identify operational and strategic gaps

• Designs strategic plans in order to mitigate gaps - putting in place the governance and partnering with talent acquisition, L&D, OD, Reward, to align sub-function initiatives with workforce plans and needs

• Drives workforce planning input into large-scale transformation programmes, including digital, structural and operational change.

• Sets up the data analytics and modelling to predict workforce trends and inform decision-making.

• Puts in place the frameworks to monitor internal and external labour market trends, demographics, and regulatory impacts to guide workforce strategy.

• Develops reporting tools and dashboards to track workforce metrics and planning effectiveness.

• Drives and maintains adoption of workforce planning processes and frameworks across the wider business, ensuring

• Accountable for overseeing the delivery, accuracy, integrity and security of People and Workforce data analysis and insights that support business goals.

• Drive innovation in data science and business intelligence in relation to all People and Workforce data, ensuring the use of cutting-edge technologies and methodologies.

• Lead efforts to optimise People data infrastructure and workflows, ensuring that data solutions are robust, scalable, and support business agility.

• Oversee the delivery of technical data modelling to support seasonal HR events, statutory reporting requirements and routine management insights.

• Oversee the delivery of data driven, technical seasonal HR events

• Manage self & task: role model Arqiva's culture goals with the team, building respect and credibility; set a high-performance bar and challenge the team to deliver sustainable results, by developing the skills and capabilities of the team and focusing on outcomes.

• Manage relationships & communications: connect, collaborate & lead communication transparently, balancing face to face and virtual, with own team and teams across the business to encourage cross-functional understanding, agreement and knowledge sharing.

• Strategic analysis and planning

• Data modelling, forecasting, and scenario analysis

• Communication and stakeholder engagement

• Project management and change management capabilities

• Advanced Excel and workforce analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Visier)

• Familiarity with HRIS systems and workforce planning platforms

• People Analytics - Extensive knowledge of people reporting requirements.

• In-depth understanding of strategic workforce planning frameworks and methodologies

• Knowledge of labour market dynamics, organisational design, and talent management

• Awareness of employment legislation and HR compliance requirements

• Familiarity with workforce segmentation, and skills taxonomy

• Extensive experience in workforce planning, skills planning and management

• Substantial Experience of translating business strategy into workforce plans

• Substantial experience of workforce analytics

• Extensive experience of influencing senior leaders and driving organisational change

• Extensive experience of HR Reporting processes across the employment life cycle and annual people cycles.

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