Description
The Workforce Management Lead is part of a small team that will manage and help optimise Heathrow’s end to end workforce planning controls and governance that provides an ongoing accurate view of its workforce and capabilities, informing strategic workforce decisions. It has a significant day to day element, running and maintaining our workforce planning controls and he role plays a key role in supporting the implementation of large-scale people change and OD/OE programmes and also a key role in implementing and embedding new technologies and automation, and to bring best practice into how Heathrow performs this key OE function.
By having a tight grip on our workforce and organisation analytics, the business is better able to make strategic workforce planning decisions that help Heathrow achieve its business vision.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve workforce planning controls and governance to maintain a real-time, accurate view of Heathrow’s organisation
- Maintain and continuously update the organisation baseline, working with HRBPs, Reward and Data teams to ensure data accuracy (incl. contingent labour and temporary roles)
- Facilitate role change governance processes, ensuring high-quality information supports effective decision-making
- Deliver workforce planning input into the Business Planning process, including timelines, governance, reporting and alignment with Finance
- Ensure alignment between HR data, the organisation baseline and people cost models in partnership with Finance
- Drive continuous improvement, simplification and systemisation of workforce planning tools, processes and reporting, incorporating external best practice and trends
- Provide data-led insights and analysis to identify workforce trends and inform strategic workforce planning
- Support delivery of organisation design, effectiveness and large-scale people change programmes
Qualifications
- Proven strong Excel and data skills, and some experience of (or ability to learn) data visualisation tools such as Power bi
- Personal flexibility, agility and resilience to adapt to changing organisational needs.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills and the ability to build relationships across the business, an ability to challenge appropriately and to be able to hold others to account
- Excellent data skills and an analytical mindset, with the ability to interpret and present data in an engaging and meaningful way to various stakeholders including to Directors
- Self-starting and a problem solver who can identify and develop opportunities to improve ways of working and actively seeks learning and knowledge to help develop both personal and organisational knowledge.
- Extremely well organised with excellent time management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Have an aptitude to be able to understand and learn new specialist workforce management tools
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