Manager Strategic Workforce Planning

**Job Number**:
979437

**Work type**:
Fixed Term Contract

**Location**:
Melbourne - Docklands

**Categories**:
Human Resources, Strategy, Planning, Project Management

Who We Are

In Melbourne, water is essential to our way of life.

As caretakers for Melbourne’s water cycle, we care for water, life and land throughout Melbourne: both its people and its biodiversity.

Each time you drink from the tap, flush a toilet, run through a yard sprinkler, or kayak down the Yarra—we’re there. Primed and ready, quietly delivering some of the world’s cleanest water for over five million residents and wildlife that call Melbourne home —just as we have for over 130 years.

If you value making it count, diving in with curiosity, and doing what’s right, you're in the right place.

About The Role

Reporting to the Head of Business Transformation and Effectiveness, this full-time, 14 month contract role is responsible for aligning Melbourne Waters workforce with its medium to long-term goals, ensuring optimal workforce utilisation across the business with a five-year outlook.

The Manager, Strategic Workforce Planning will collaborate with various teams and senior management to assess resource needs, forecast future demand and supply, and develop and maintain a strategic workforce plan.
- Lead the oversight of Melbourne Water’s Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) initiatives, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.
- Iterate and improve the Strategic Workforce Plan, aligning workforce strategies with operational demands, financial constraints, and long-term skill development priorities.
- Utilise data analytics tools and metrics to evaluate current workforce capacity, gaps, trends, and other critical factors.
- Define and oversee workforce planning data sources, analytics, and reporting mechanisms to enable effective forecasting and scenario planning.
- Conduct scenario modelling and analytics to inform organisational strategy, ensuring workforce capacity aligns with business transformation objectives.
- Partner closely with Capability and People Experience and People Services teams to provide strategic workforce insights that inform people strategy, talent planning, and capability-building initiatives.
- Facilitate alignment on actions and initiatives that close the gaps required to secure our workforce of the future.

Your Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience gained through a senior management position.
- Relevant tertiary degree in HR or Business Administration
- Certification in workforce planning (desirable)
- Strong analytical skills and research skills to inform insights to support critical thinking and decision making by the business
- Strong consulting, presentation, and communication skills, to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders and convey complex information in a clear and compelling manner
- Certification in workforce planning (desirable)

About You
- You have the expertise to develop strategies ensuring efficiency in our current and future workforce allocation, aligning with our operating model and future state goals.
- Your high analytical skills enable you to provide valuable support to the senior leadership group by offering data-driven insights and solutions that inform workforce planning.
- You thrive in collaborative settings to ensure successful delivery of the program of work within the SWP, including measuring the effectiveness of workforce planning initiatives.

For more information, please view the attached PD: G3 - Role Mandate - Manager Strategic Workforce Planning.pdf

Why Join Us

At Melbourne Water, we care about water and all life that springs from it.

Our people are fuelled by passion, and with safety at the forefront, we have an unwavering sense of purpose, and are on a mission to protect every Melburnian’s way of life, one drop at a time.

We walk the talk when it comes to flexible working - but that’s not all. Our culture of purpose, safety, results, and learning permeates everything we do. We're dedicated to doing what's right, and this commitment extends to the meaningful work we do in a supportive and inclusive culture that encourages you to make the most of your talents.

How to Apply

Closing date: Thursday 6th March at 11:55pm AEST

**Advertised**:
26 Feb 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time

**Closing**:
06 Mar 2025 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time