Workforce Planning Analyst

Role: Strategic Workforce Analyst
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Aberdeen - CANDIDATE MUST BE BASED IN ABERDEEN!

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Workforce Planning & Scenario Modelling

Support the development and ongoing management multiyear Strategic Workforce Plan, aligned to the Target Operating Model and delivery priorities.

Build and maintain workforce scenarios and capacity models to test different growth, delivery, and sourcing options under uncertainty.

Translate organisational strategy into clear workforce demand signals, identifying future capability, capacity, and skills requirements.

Workforce Analytics & Insight

Design and own workforce analytics and dashboards that provide insight into headcount, capability, skills, productivity, cost, and delivery risk.

Turn complex data into clear, actionable insight for senior leaders, enabling informed decisionmaking.

Establish a strong analytical baseline to support tracking of workforce outcomes over time.

Location, Sourcing & Skills Strategy

Support the execution and sourcing strategy, ensuring roles are placed where they best enable delivery, skills access, and regional impact.

Analyse labour market data and external trends to inform location choices, recruitment approaches, and skills transition strategies.

Work with resourcing and policy colleagues to shape approaches to early careers, skills pipelines, and workforce transition (including sector transfer).

Capacity, Productivity & Resource Management

Help design and operate robust capacity and resource management processes, including workload, demand, and utilisation analysis.

Support the development of time, activity, or capacity capture approaches to improve understanding of how resources are deployed.

Identify opportunities to improve productivity, role clarity, and operating efficiency across the organisation.

Performance Management & Reporting

Track workforce KPIs that measure progress against strategic workforce objectives.

Produce highquality briefing and reporting for senior leaders, governance forums, and central government stakeholders.

Support continuous improvement of workforce data quality and governance.

Skills, Experience & Capability

Minimum Requirement:
Essential

Experience in strategic workforce planning, workforce analytics, business analytics or workforce optimisation in a complex organisation.
Strong analytical capability, including advanced Excel skills and experience translating data into insight and decisions.
Strong data visualisation background create clear, compelling dashboards and narratives that support senior decision-making and workforce strategy.
Experience developing workforce models, scenarios, or capacity plans.
Ability to communicate complex analysis clearly to nontechnical stakeholders.
Strong collaboration skills and confidence working with senior leaders and crossfunctional teams.

Desirable

Experience supporting organisations through setup, scaleup, or major transformation.
Understanding of public sector, infrastructure, energy, or large scale delivery environments.
Experience using Power BI and data visualisation tools to create clear, compelling dashboards.
Familiarity with labour market analysis, skills forecasting, or location strategy.

Need to have Strategic Workforce Planning experience, Strong analytical and data visualitation skills, experience creating workforce models