United Kingdom onlyJob reference number311537
Workforce Planning Business Partner - South England - Regional Travel - (Remote Working/Site visits).
Salary starting at £51,483 with guaranteed pay progression, 10% annual bonus potential, company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates and generous annual leave offering of 25 days, plus bank holidays, increasing with years served.
Permanent, Full time
Location: This is a remote working role covering Royal Mail South England regional areas. The successful candidate will be required to travel to relevant regional Royal Mail business and operation sites. Due to the nature of the role, a Full valid UK Driving Licence is required.
Royal Mail are looking for an experienced Workforce Planning Business Partner to work alongside the senior stakeholder to successfully support workforce planning processes and controls. Royal Mail is one of the largest employers in the UK with around 130k people working across 1.3k locations. People costs account for 70% of the cost base and as such, robust workforce planning, and template management control is critical to profitability.
At Royal Mail we’ve served our communities for over 500 years, helping to lead and transform the postal delivery market on a global scale. Our journey to improve never stops, and that’s where we need you.
About the role
This is a key role in the South England Regions/Functions, working alongside the senior leadership team to successfully:
- Achieve the workforce/FTE plan through agreed governance approach.
- Deliver the management and admin budget, aligned to agreed OD principles.
- Enable improvements in attrition and demographic mix.
- Provide coaching to managers on workforce planning processes and controls.
- Support the deployment of key talent programmes (e.g., apprentices) and strategic projects (e.g. USO reform
Key Accountabilities:
- Responsible for ensuring template management processes align with Royal Mail governance, control, and JE principles
- Accountable for reporting on template alignment to plan, providing variance analysis and actions to close gaps.
- Non-management: Template Designate for all Frontline roles ensuring the organisation structure aligns with approved headcount.
- Non-management: accountable for ensuring appropriate functional governance is in place and interfacing with HR shared services to align resource. demand/supply and deliver the workforce plan.
- Responsible for the analysis of attrition data from PSP and exit surveys to support local plans to improve retention.
- Responsible for the analysis of demographic data to support deployment of local initiatives to improve representation.
- Collaborate with CoEs, HR shared services and other stakeholders to support on functional projects (e.g. Peak, new OD).
- Subject matter expert for resourcing and template management, providing advice and guidance to Regional/Functional representatives as required.
- Headcount – c.20k.
About You
• Subject matter expert, credible on workforce planning matters in an operational environment
• Good understanding of the demand and supply levers that impact workforce planning decisions.
• Ability to coach and challenge in a positive style.
• Experience of influencing senior leaders to achieve objectives.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong analytical, planning, and organisational skills including use of relevant data systems.
• Resilience, tenacity, and a self-starter
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, policy frameworks and IR agreements
• Degree qualified or equivalent desirable.
• CIPD qualified desirable
Extra Benefits
• RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing -you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
• Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.
• Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*
• Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
• Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts
• Free stamps at Christmas
*Available only to perm employees
Your career in safe hands
At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.
We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.
An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.
Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.
For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/
Next Steps
Closing Date: Monday 24th June 2024. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd July 2024.
Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.
We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you. (delete if essential criteria only)
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/
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