Workforce Planning Manager

BELONG. There’s no place like Principality.

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Principality Building Society is embarking on a period of significant cultural transformation to simplify our business and create capacity for purposeful growth. This is a new and exciting role and is pivotal to our growth and success. As a Workforce Planning Manager, you will lead the development and delivery of an operational workforce planning capability of our people, processes, and technology.

What you will do:

• Develop and deliver an operational workforce planning capability across the Principality group
• Identify opportunities to improve organisational outcomes to ensure our people resources are managed more efficiently.
• Workforce planning and forecasting to cover operational demands
• Create and maintain accurate staffing schedules to ensure optimal coverage to meet our service level agreements.
• Oversee the reconciliation of monthly performance across the group
• Manage design changes to ensure they align with business needs.
• Forecast all operational demand types and staffing requirements based on historical data, and identify trends and business needs
• Able to work with a range of stakeholders to develop and implement change.
• Asist with training and mentoring of all workforce planning colleagues to ensure competency
• Monitor real time data to ensure all peak activities and shortfalls are monitored and plans in place to ensure service level agreements

What we are looking for:

• Strong experience in managing workforce planning activities
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to interpret data & make sound decisions
• Experience of using workforce management software and tools to forecast call volumes & create schedules
• Excellent communication and people skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels and work collaboratively in a team
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise and multitask effectively in a challenging environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft excel, including advanced formulas, pivot tables and data techniques
• Strong diligence and accuracy, with the ability to analyse data and identify patterns & trends

If you have any questions in relation to this role, please contact the recruitment team at -recruitment@principality.co.uk 

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