Workforce Planning Analyst

About Us **Let’s create a more sociable future together** At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you About the Role - ** Flexible work arrangements**: - ** A pivotal role within the work force planning function**: - ** Unleash you inner Strategist** Are you a data-driven guru with a passion for optimizing productivity? Do you thrive on transforming complex workforce data into clear, actionable strategies? We are seeking a dedicated **Workforce Planning Analyst** to join our **"Simpler for Stores"** team. You will be instrumental in leading workforce and labour analysis, ensuring our 12,000 team members across 350+ retail sites have the right labour at the right time to thrive. **Sound good? Read on.** **Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role**: This role is about using data-driven insights to maintain and improve the efficiency of our retail teams. Key responsibilities include: - Building and maintaining direct wage labour hours based on engineered labour standards and a bottom-up budgeting methodology for 350+ retail sites. - Translating complex business problems into clear workforce planning and management solutions, leveraging your strong**business and financial acumen. - Designing and producing regular, simplified reporting for Operations teams to help them easily identify trends and opportunities to improve cost and efficiency. - Creating actionable productivity insights by identifying trends and areas for improvement across our brands, supporting the "Simpler for Stores" team and wider business partners. - Supporting and challenging the delivery of labour hours budget outcomes, ensuring compliant rostering through meticulous data, analytics, and trend analysis. - Building and supporting workforce planning for events and long-term projections of team requirements. - Supporting Brand Finance and Operations teams to pinpoint underlying performance opportunities that are impacting wage budget delivery. What do we need from you **Now let’s talk about you**: You’re a highly analytical thinker with the technical skills to back it up. - Previous experience in operational based workforce planning roles; exposure to retail is desired but not essential (3-5 Years) - Advanced analytical & modeling skills, with experience in linking data to business problems with experience in SQL and Tableau with Python being desired - Comprehensive understanding of workforce planning management methodologies, systems and processes, for retail or other operational environments. - Experience in budgeting and forecasting workforce planning requirements based on bottom up methodologies for events and long term projections. - Good Presentation and communication skills with the ability to manage cross functional outcomes - Ability to understand and interpret wage reporting to identify key drivers and productivity impacts. - Strong planning and organisational skills with ability to work independently, and across video conferencing as appropriate. - Able to travel interstate and within the state. - Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree within Finance, Commerce, Engineering or similar field Desirable - Exposure to working with cloud based data platforms; Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform - Experience in working within a Project and Transformation environment with an ability to engage and influence key stakeholders, and work extensively with external business suppliers. - Understanding of Time and attendance systems and reporting. - Large format or convenience retail operational experience - Ability to understand and effectively interpret Enterprise Agreements and Awards. **The benefits are good too** - We offer flexible working in every sense - An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs - Monthly meeting-free days - Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing - Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big. - At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply._ What's in it for you? **We are together creators** With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the momen