Strategic Workforce Planning Specialist

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Aviva Full time

Strategic Workforce Planning Specialist

National Salary Circa £56,400

London Salary £60,000 - £70,000

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Strategic Workforce Planning Specialist to join our supportive and tenacious team. This is a great job for someone with experience of designing and implementing workforce planning processes and procedures At Aviva, we have big ambitions and to achieve this we need to have the right people, with the right skills and capabilities, to deliver our strategy. Building and implementing a strategic workforce plan is pivotal to our future success

A bit about the job:
This role supports the design and development of our strategic workforce planning activity across the business, working with a broad range of internal stakeholders to embed our new direction and ensure alignment with our strategic and financial priorities.
- Support the strategic workforce planning activity, focussing on embedding a newly developed approach and organisational capability
- Partner the business with the ongoing creation of the Aviva workforce of the future 'blueprint’; providing expertise and delivery capability in interpretation and use of external market trend organisational data as well as internal analysis
- Support the Heads of People to provide strategic workforce planning expertise to senior leaders which facilitate the creation of business area strategic workforce plans
- Lead the delivery of the strategic workforce planning work across the business including the build of tools and change management to ensure adoption
- Work closely with the People Analytics team translating business objectives into data requirements and building analytical solutions to solve the business problems

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

- Ability to think and operate with a strategic mentality, with experience in identifying and understanding the organisation’s strategy and goals, and understanding how to translate these into talent and capability needs
- Senior level stakeholder engagement along with effective verbal and written communication
- Able to understand and interpret a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data and insight, drawing clear and objective conclusions which lead to practical and actionable recommendations
- Strong change management skills with proven ability to navigate a highly complex environment
- Naturally curious and eager to learn seeking out new knowledge through cross-functional collaboration

What you’ll get for this role:
Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.
- Starting salary of Circa £56,400 (National) and £60,000 - £70,000 (London) depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications
- Bonus opportunity - 10% 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
- Make your money go further - 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
- Brilliantly 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 wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
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