Seeking a Strategic workforce planning manager to join our team on a part time job share basis, working 3 days a week. In this dynamic role you will partner with the existing job share colleague to ensure a seamless approach to driving workforce planning strategies that align with our organisational goals.
JOB TITLE: Strategic Workforce Planning Manager (Job-Share)
SALARY: £57, 546 - £63,940
LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh and Bristol
HOURS: Part-time
WORKING PATTERN: This a job-share vacancy, working 3 days a week, Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this Opportunity
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for shaping the future workforce? Do you have experience in strategic workforce planning and a talent for collaborating with others to deliver impactful results? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) team in our People and Places function (P&P). The purpose of our team is to deliver material impact for the organisation through SWP by partnering across various areas of P&P and the business to mature an effective and robust Strategic Workforce Plan. We'll use SWP to ensure we have the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time to deliver our strategy.
This is a developing area which is key to supporting the Group's strategic journey, by creating an agile, engaged future-proof workforce to enable growth, focus and change.
You'll be responsible for supporting and developing aspects of the Group's Strategic Workforce Planning capability and contribute to setting a directional view of the 5-year rolling workforce plan, underpinned by data driven insight into specific areas of the business, critical roles and critical skills.
You'll work with business units to refine this view on a cyclical basis, enabling specific and tangible interventions and drive decision-making to allow us to acquire, build and retain future skills. A key part of this role is to support the Group's strategic strategy by working with business leaders to design and operationalise workforce planning roadmaps to build a sustainable, effective workforce for the short, medium and long term.
You'll work collaboratively across the People and Places team and wider Group to drive broad planning and intelligence around how, when and where skills will be required and sourced.
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
What you'll be doing
* Contribute to building data-driven Strategic Workforce Planning models, which identify future skills and the interlock of this with our location strategy.
* Develop excellent relationships with business stakeholders and key partners across the Group to identify and quantify the role and skills needed for now and for the future, translating this insight into compelling and practical interventions.
* Foster an organisation-wide passion for Strategic Workforce Planning, inspiring others to become part of the journey and vision.
* Contribute to developing and implementing long-term plans to acquire and / or develop required skills and capabilities, driving these plans to support the deployment of agreed change projects, ensuring interdependencies, risks and issues are understood and managed effectively.
* Work collaboratively with the Centres of Excellence to inform and design recruitment, talent management and reskilling plans, driving the Group's overall Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and contributing to the development of a skills-based organisation.
* Work closely with the Future Workplace team to develop insight which ensures LBG has a presence in key locations for talent now and in the future.
* Continually focus on your own development to ensure that you're working at your best.
* Take an active interest in the external development in Strategic Workforce Planning models and Talent Market Insights to develop and support the delivery of our strategy.
What you'll need
Strategic Thinking : Ability to problem solve, generate hypotheses, structure problems and generate robust conclusions and strategic objectives. Ability to work with ambiguity, taking on non-fully defined challenges to structure and resolve with the necessary levels of personal commitment and resilience.
Communication & Storytelling : Excellent written and verbal communication, in particular experience of producing written outputs for a senior audience.
Data Analytics : Ability to review and perform good quality analysis, including resourcefulness in sourcing and validating data, to present recommendations.
Stakeholder management : Using a commercial understanding and excellent communication skills, to develop and maintain positive relationships with a range of people and business areas.
Programme Delivery : Ability to take ownership for a workstream, develop project plans and work right to left to deliver required outputs, at pace.
Collaboration : Build partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Ability to create a strong network and good working environment within the team and the organisation, working with colleagues at all levels of seniority.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual performance-related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you're passionate about workforce strategy and thrive in a collaborative role, this is the perfect opportunity to make a meaningful impact while enjoying a flexible working arrangement.
Take the next step in your career - join us and help shape the workforce of tomorrow!
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