Strategic Workforce Planning, Snr Manager

Frazer Jones is pleased to be partnering with a large complex FTSE undergoing a pivotal transformation. The organisation is now focused on simplifying how it operates, leveraging technology and AI, and building a workforce capable of delivering its next phase of growth.

As part of this journey, we are partnering with the business to appoint a senior expert in strategic workforce planning and people insights. This represents a significant evolution of workforce management – moving beyond traditional planning into a forward-looking, data-led and commercially critical function.

The Opportunity

This is a high-impact leadership role, operating with significant autonomy and visibility. Reporting into a HR Director, you will set the strategic direction for workforce management and people insight, shaping how workforce decisions are made across a complex, multi-unit environment.

You will lead a team responsible for translating workforce data into actionable insight, partnering closely with Finance and senior business leaders to solve workforce and skills challenges, and ensuring that workforce strategy is aligned to medium-term planning and financial objectives. Critically, this role will play a key part in redefining workforce strategy for the future – including understanding the impact of AI, evolving workforce models, and building a scalable, sustainable approach to workforce planning across the organisation.

What You’ll Be Doing

· Set and evolve workforce strategy across the business

· Lead strategic workforce planning and modelling, determining what resources are required, how they should be sourced (internal vs external), and where they should be located.

· Develop and embed robust forecasting and Medium-Term Planning approaches, ensuring alignment with financial plans and business strategy.

· Translate complex workforce and organisational data into clear, actionable insights, enabling informed decision-making at senior level.

· Partner closely with Finance, HR and business leadership to proactively solve workforce and skills challenges.

· Lead workforce transformation activity, including evolving forecasting capability, enhancing tools and introducing more advanced, AI-enabled approaches.

· Build and lead a high-performing insights and workforce team, driving capability, engagement and progression.

· Create a scalable workforce model, with the potential to extend across broader areas of the business over time.

The Impact

Success in this role will mean delivering a clear, data-driven view of the future workforce, enabling the company to answer critical strategic questions:

What skills and capabilities are required to deliver future business priorities?

How should talent be sourced and deployed across the organisation?

Where should roles be located to maximise efficiency and impact?

You will also play a key role in shaping career pathways, reskilling strategies and talent development, ensuring workforce strategy supports long-term, sustainable careers and organisational growth.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a commercially minded, strategic leader who combines workforce planning expertise with strong analytical capability and stakeholder influence:

Deep experience in strategic workforce planning, forecasting and organisational modelling within large, complex environments

Strong data analytics capability, with the ability to translate data into meaningful, actionable insight

Proven ability to work in partnership with senior stakeholders, influencing across business and finance

Experience operating in transformation environments, ideally evolving workforce management capability or systems

Comfortable working in environments that are both strategic and hands-on, including building models and working with data where needed

An understanding of the impact of AI and emerging technologies on workforce strategy is highly advantageous

A consulting mindset, with the ability to challenge, shape thinking and drive outcomes

Why Join?

This is a rare opportunity to take on a C-level strategic workforce role within one of the UK’s most important organisations, with the mandate to shape how workforce decisions are made at scale. You’ll be joining at a point of real transformation – with the opportunity to build capability, influence senior decision-making, and create a workforce strategy that is genuinely future-focused and data-driven. This is a leadership role with offices in London but with your team spread across the UK. The business offers hybrid working (3 days in office) and a highly competitive salary package and benefits offering which includes a bonus and private medical care.

If you are an SWP / People Analytics professional looking to deepen your expertise and further enhance your career, we would be delighted to hear from you. For a confidential discussion or more information, please contact Nick Arnold at Frazer Jones.

The SR Group (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.