Workforce Analyst

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom BOOTS Full time
Workforce Analyst

Vacancy closing date: 29th May 2024

Recruitment Partner:
Emily Smith-Kenny

Have you ever wanted to shape our investment in over 40,000 colleagues?

We have a rare, exciting opportunity for a Workforce Analyst to join the Allocation of Colleague Investment (ACI) Team.

Reporting to the Workforce Manager, you will support with workload and salary planning for all Boots UK and ROI stores, and will play a key role in ensuring that our stores have the right people, in the right place, at the right time.

You will have the opportunity to leverage your expertise and knowledge of data, problem solving and process mapping to help deliver workload and salary budgets to each store.

About the role


The Allocation of Colleague Investment (ACI) Team is a small but high-profile team within the Central Operations function, and plays a key role in supporting the Retail Leadership Team, and over 2,300 stores across the UK and ROI.


Key responsibilities include:

  • Modelling forecasted workload for each store based on complex datasets from across the business
  • Calculating the required salary and colleague shape of investment based on the workload each store needs to deliver
  • Interpreting complex data streams and delivering insights
  • Supporting the creation of business cases from stakeholders across the Business Units
  • Identifying continuous improvement opportunities using a combination of practical knowledge of retail environments and data
What you'll need to have

  • Strong analytical skills, able to understand complex data streams and highly proficient in Microsoft Excel
  • Ability to make complex processes simple, and have a strong continuous improvement mindset
  • Adaptable to tight deadlines and be able to flex your workload to support the longterm projects as well as short term adhoc data work
  • Ability to understand and translate realworld processes / tasks occurring into datadriven process maps
It would be great if you also have

  • Previous experience of IBM Planning Analytics / TMI, VBA, Power BI and Power Automate
  • Previous experience of Workforce Planning
Our benefits

  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • Generous employee discounts
  • Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.


We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots


At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all.

As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.

What's next


If your application is successful, our recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer any initial questions you have.

If you have not been successful on this occasion you will be notified by email.


Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process.

If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

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