Strategic Workforce Planning Specialist, People Team
Working at our iconic office in King’s Cross, London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams
This is a completely new way of working at NewDay, and we are looking for someone to help drive the right shape of our workforce for an exciting time ahead. You will be experienced in planning for future requirements across the whole company, using strong stakeholder communication skills as well as advanced excel skills.
You’ll be at the forefront of change at NewDay with the ability to make a real impact on our workforce planning decisions. You will use your analytical mindset and curiosity to embed, monitor, and evaluate NewDay’s strategic workforce plan. Collaborating with the People team, Finance team and the wider business, you will determine future workforce needs and measure the effectiveness of workforce planning strategies and communicate key insights to senior stakeholders.
You’ll deliver
- An accurate view of end-to-end workforce whilst playing an active role in regular workforce management conversations with key business leads to identify operating model shifts that will enable us to achieve our goals.
- Regular reporting to business operating committees and develop impactful presentations for executive-level stakeholders.
- Supporting organisational change activity, providing insights to support decisions, crafting business cases and colleague communications.
- Analytical support across the Talent team, by uncovering valuable cross-team insights to inform solutions to enhance colleague and organisation capability.
We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:
- A workforce planning or HR transformation/change role, delivering high quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment where priorities change
- Effective decision-making skills, balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Analytics, comfortable using data to tell compelling stories to drive business change.
- Communication and collaboration across teams to solve business problems.
- Strong stakeholder management, being able to communicate messages with confidence and influence senior leadership decision-making.
- PowerPoint, Excel and/or Organisation Design systems.
And would love you to know or learn:
- Experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI).
- Succession planning and skills mapping
Where next? Let’s talk about this role – Apply now or contact talent@newday.co.uk with any queries.
We help people move forward with credit and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.
Our dynamic NewDay culture
We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.
Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
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