Role: Strategic Workforce Analyst REF 99662
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Aberdeen
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a Strategic Workforce Analyst for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STRATEGIC WORKFORCE ANALYST
Strategic Workforce Planning & Scenario Modelling
- Support the development and ongoing management of client’s 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 decision making.
- Establish a strong analytical baseline to support tracking of workforce outcomes over time.
Location, Sourcing & Skills Strategy
- Support the execution of client’s location 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 high quality briefing and reporting for senior leaders, governance forums, and central government stakeholders.
- Support continuous improvement of workforce data quality and governance.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE STRATEGIC WORKFORCE ANALYST
- 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 cross functional teams.
If you are a Strategic Workforce Analyst, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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