Workforce Planner (18 Month FTC)
How you'll help us live our purpose
We've been helping our members save for their future and buy their own home since 1875. Join us and you'll play a big role in helping us to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.
It's a purpose that drives everything we do. And you can play your part too – join our People Enablement team as a Workforce Planner and you'll provide workforce evidence that helps us anticipate future capacity and skills needs and make practical workforce decisions.
How you'll make a difference
In a brand-new team, you'll be joining at the start of an exciting journey as we build a new, consistent, evidence-led approach to workforce and skills planning across the Society.
Working across People, Finance and business teams, you'll produce reliable workforce and skills forecasts, analyse current and future demand and identify capacity, capability and critical-role gaps.
You'll co-ordinate planning inputs, maintain workforce data and turn analysis into clear dashboards, reports and practical insight. You'll challenge incomplete or inconsistent information, explain assumptions and limitations, and help stakeholders identify appropriate build, buy, borrow, redeploy or automate actions.
What will you bring to the role?
- Data Literacy – advanced ability to collect and interpret workforce, skills, financial and operational data, with the ability to explain findings clearly
- Digital Literacy – advanced use of approved digital tools to produce reliable workforce outputs, improve recurring processes and identify automation opportunities
- Teamwork – advanced collaboration across People, Finance and business teams to coordinate inputs, resolve data issues and deliver workforce-planning outputs
- Adaptability – able to adjust forecasts, analysis and reporting as assumptions, data, deadlines and stakeholder needs change
- Creative Thinking – able to improve data collection, forecasting, scenarios and reporting within agreed methods
- Customer Centricity – able to connect workforce capacity, capability and skills evidence to sustainable member, customer and colleague outcomes
- Empathy – able to handle sensitive workforce evidence objectively and adapt communication to different stakeholder perspectives
- Relationship Management – able to build trusted relationships with business, People, Finance and data owners to secure inputs and validate findings
And in return, you'll get the best from us
- Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office
- Annual bonus of up to 12%
- Matched pension contributions up to 10%
- 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme
- Colleague Mortgage and Saver products
- 2 days' volunteering per year
We'll give you a place to belong with the support to learn, develop and shape a meaningful career.
Why choose us?
Our business is centred around our people. Our colleagues are at the heart of everything we do, as shown by our Inclusive Employers Gold accreditation in 2023 and 2025. We're committed to equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.
You'll be joining a truly purpose-focused culture which helped us win the Leading with Purpose award at the 2023 Business Culture Awards. This recognises how we've embedded our purpose with our colleagues, and the actions we've taken to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.
Why wait? Apply now
We'd love to hear from you. But don't wait around - we may close the advert early and we'd hate for you to miss out.
We're devoted to creating a culture and workplace that is representative of the communities we serve. If you'd like to work with us but are unsure if you meet the full criteria for a role, please contact the recruiter so we can find out more about your skills and experience. We're committed to supporting you to be at your best - to discuss any reasonable adjustments we could make, please contact us on careers@leedsbuildingsociety.co.uk.
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