Workforce Planning Lead

Summary: The IT Capability & Workforce Transformation Lead will spearhead a significant technology transformation program at a large organization. This role involves collaborating with senior IT and HR stakeholders to enhance workforce planning, capability assessment, and organizational design. The position focuses on developing job families, establishing capability baselines, and driving organizational change to foster a culture of continuous learning. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in IT workforce management and strategic planning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead workforce planning, capability assessment, organizational design, and skills development activities.
• Design and implement SFIA-aligned job families and career pathways.
• Establish capability baselines and identify future skills requirements.
• Develop workforce strategies to meet evolving business needs.
• Support the design of the future IT operating model and drive organizational change.
• Champion a culture of continuous learning and high performance.

Key Skills:

• IT workforce planning and capability management.
• SFIA job architecture and career framework design.
• Organizational design and target operating model delivery.
• Skills assessments and capability gap analysis.
• Strategic workforce planning.
• Senior stakeholder engagement and change leadership.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Reading

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

IT Capability & Workforce Transformation Lead - Reading Office - Hybrid - Inside IR35 - 6 months

Our client is seeking an experienced IT Capability & Workforce Transformation Lead to play a key role in a major technology transformation programme.

Working closely with senior IT and HR stakeholders, you will lead workforce planning, capability assessment, organisational design and skills development activities across a large technology function. You will design and implement SFIA-aligned job families and career pathways, establish capability baselines, identify future skills requirements, and develop workforce strategies to meet evolving business needs.

You will also support the design of the future IT operating model, drive organisational change, and champion a culture of continuous learning and high performance.

Key experience required:

• IT workforce planning and capability management
• SFIA job architecture and career framework design
• Organisational design and target operating model delivery
• Skills assessments and capability gap analysis
• Strategic workforce planning
• Senior stakeholder engagement and change leadership

This is an excellent opportunity for a transformation professional to shape the future capability, structure and culture of a large-scale technology organisation.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.