Scheduling and Forecasting Consultant

3 days ago


Glasgow, United Kingdom Aviva Full time
Scheduling and Forecasting Consultant

Salary - Circa £34,000

Are you someone who loves solving problems, structuring data, and presenting actionable insights?

If you have a passion for analysis, demand forecasting, and resource planning, this role could be the perfect fit for you. We're looking for an analytically minded professional with excellent problem-solving skills to join our growing Scheduling and Forecasting team. This is a great opportunity for someone with experience in resource planning, data presentation, or forecasting to make a tangible impact on our operations.

A bit about the job:

As a Scheduling and Forecasting Consultant, you will play a vital role in delivering effective planning across our operations. This includes updating and maintaining demand forecasts, creating personalised schedules for our team members, and supporting our operations through actionable insights and reports.

You'll be responsible for analysing data to flag trends and challenges, predict future demand and supply, and provide recommendations to our leaders. By working collaboratively with teams and leveraging predictive modelling, you'll ensure that our resources are used efficiently, helping the business deliver exceptional results.

Skills and experience we're looking for:
  • Extensive experience in an analytically focused role, with excellent Excel skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and resource planning abilities.
  • Confident communication skills to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
  • A collaborative working style - a real team player.
  • Familiarity with Workforce Management software (e.g., Verint I360) and data presentation tools (e.g., QlikSense) is desirable.

What you'll get for this role:
  • Salary - Circa £34,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
  • Bonus opportunity - 8% of annual salary, actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's
  • Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in
  • 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
  • Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
  • Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
  • Outstandingly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave
  • Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
  • Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
  • We take your well-being seriously with lots of support and tools

Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.

Aviva is for everyone:

We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here .

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you.

We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please send an email to anna.bui@aviva.com

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