Strategic Workforce Planning Partner
We are currently recruiting a Strategic Workforce Planning Partner to drive the alignment of Tesco Mobile's workforce with its strategic priorities.
This role involves iterating and driving the SWP process, leading the quarterly workforce process, improving the organisation's use of people data and products, and ensuring integration with/ development of broader people processes such as recruitment/talent/performance. This position is crucial for crafting the workforce to unlock value creation and support the organisation's long-term goals.
You will be responsible for:
Iterate and implement the strategic workforce planning process to align with Tesco Mobile's strategic goals
Coordinate and drive the quarterly workforce planning process with our teams, ensuring it integrates seamlessly with other people processes
Continuously consider how we can improve processes to align with strategic workforce planning and talent strategy, focusing on crafting a positive employee experience
Take ownership of and develop the current workforce planning platform (TeamForm) to optimise engagement around workforce management and strategy alignment
Work back from strategic priorities to proactively build a strategic view of the future workforce and how we can achieve our organisational outcome
Continuously link talent allocation to value creation, identifying and proactively addressing talent gaps
Ensure the SWP process integrates effectively with broader people processes
Challenge and support team leaders and CoE leads to think critically about talent possibilities and decisions, promoting critical approaches
Have a passion for people data, ensuring accuracy and relevance and develop metrics to understand the state of talent and the health/status of talent processes (e.g., recruiting funnel metrics)
Effectively engage and influence senior leaders to adopt and support the SWP process, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement
You will need:
Strong analytical skills and proficiency
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
Project management skills to navigate multiple partners and interaction patterns
Ability to engage and influence senior leaders to drive process adoption and alignment with strategic goals Desired Skills
Familiarity with human capital trends and macro-economic factors affecting workforce composition
Experience with HR management systems like Oracle Cloud
Knowledge of business strategy and operations
Expertise in data management and quality improvement techniques
Experience with platform ownership and adoption
Previous experience working within an agile business - desirable
What's in it for you:
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
Private medical insurance
Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us:
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.
We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility
