Labour Planning Analyst

**Want to elevate your career to an Higher Altitude?**

**Watch your career fly high** as a part of our National Workforce Planning team,**

**to build**and plan**a better tomorrow.**At dnata the sky's truly the limit**

SYDNEY, BRISBANE, MELBOURNE, PERTH

We have an exciting opportunity available for a national Labour Planning Analyst - Team Leader to assist our Head of Workforce Planning to support the development, forecast and rollout of resource strategies to address our operational and cost challenges across our business.

**More about this role**:
To put it simply, as the Labour Planning Analyst - Team Leader you will be responsible for overseeing the pre-planning process for all operational units within our catering business. Utilizing specialist WFP systems and methodologies, you will effectively manage the weekly coverage of customer focused demand, whilst ensuring adherence to our fatigue awareness and safety-led standards.

This role will be a conduit between our site Business Managers to act as an effective internal support function for effective resource planning, our Labour Hire partners to find a balance to close resource gaps during peak periods, and our Corporate Finance & Leadership team.

**In a nutshell, your main responsibilities are**:

- Direct, coordinate and manage labour assignments during the roster building phase
- Ensure compliance to industrial agreements and business KPIs
- Support all Operations Heads & National Head of WFP to manage the rostering process, systems and data reporting across a labour force of up to 4,000
- Accurately oversee requirements in line with roster publication cycles.
- Coordinate responses to operational disruptions and develop solutions to challenges
- Provide data analysis and reporting on critical statistics, highlighting trends and providing key advice to Operational Leaders
- Engage in regular planning and mapping of strategic resources (Allocation team).
- Resource forecasting through analysis of data projections and built in redundancies
- Labour Hire coordination through our contracted LH agencies x manage workforce orders and verify invoiced hours
- Achieve process improvements through consistent reviews of current WFP workflows and practices x gather feedback from end users and Ops teams
- Leadership and team development through motivational catch ups, one on one mentoring and involving them in 'big picture' planning and updates
- Build effective relationships throughout the business to ensure best use of resourcing and communicating any WFP initiatives

**What do you need to be successful in securing this role?**
- Proven experience in a Senior Labour Analyst or WFP Supervisory role.
- Experience with complex rosters and multi-site labour planning for over 3,000 staff
- Strong project management focus with experience developing strategic plans
- Highly analytical approach to problem solving
- Previous financial management and budgeting experience
- Advanced computer literacy skills with planning and rostering systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong work ethic, practical, proactiveness and solutions driven
- Demonstrated ability to effectively work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Ability to model, influence and encourage positive behaviours within the team.
- Must have experience in Food Distribution, Manufacturing or 3PL Logistics
- Knowledge of the Airline industry would be highlight advantageous.
- Competent in documentation and records management.
- As you will be working in the Aviation Services industry, you will be required to obtain a clear National Police Check.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Competitive salary.
- 5 weeks paid Annual Leave.
- Free onsite parking, and daily provided staff meals.
- Access to our tailored Employee Novated Car Lease program.
- National Career development and progression opportunities.
- Be part of a close knit and dedicated team that are committed to excellence.
- Discounts at hundreds of retailers, discounted health insurance, and wellbeing resources including online exercise classes.

**About Us**:
We are Australia’s largest and most admired inflight catering and retail partner. Specialising in inflight catering and retail, food manufacturing, and airport lounge management, our group of diverse brands enables us to deliver extensive service capabilities.

Chosen by many of the world’s top airlines, we operate 16 facilities across 10 cities and employ over 4,500 people who help us to produce over 64 million meals, and service more than 250,000 flights, each year.

Parent company dnata - part of the Emirates Group - is one of the world’s largest air services providers. Offering ground handling, cargo, travel, and inflight catering and retail services, dnata ensures the aviation industry operates smoothly and efficiently.

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