Workforce Planning Lead

Permanent, full time
- Sydney Location
- Flexible work arrangements

**How will I help?**

**Major Responsibilities**:

- Lead the workforce demand and supply dialogue and collaborate with GTO, Group Finance, Divisional Strategy teams and divisional HR teams to understand business priorities and strategic change portfolio.
- Establish and maintain a group wide view of medium
- and long-term workforce impacts resulting from delivery of strategic initiatives on the workforce to enable workforce strategies and plans to be built.
- Review business strategies to identify growth areas and capability requirements. Identify workforce gaps and develop action plans with divisional HR teams that will address those gaps.
- Provide guidance and strategic insights to HR teams on workforce strategies and actions necessary for a smooth and successful transition.
- Drive workforce planning processes, including scenario modelling, skills audits, workforce capability development, etc. ensuring they support the transformation project
- Analyse workforce data to forecast future supply and demand, identifying potential gaps and advising on reskilling, upskilling, or redeployment initiatives.
- Deliver accurate, data-driven forecasts and workforce models that enable informed decision-making by senior management.
- Build effective reporting and measures to enable pipelining of impacted resources to facilitate Career Transition.

**What’s in it for me?**

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure.

Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**
- Demonstrated experience in Strategic Workforce Management
- Worked on large scale transformation projects
- Strong analytical skills with ability to use data to drive decision making
- Expertise in scenario modelling, skills audits, and workforce forecasting to address the impacts of technology simplification.
- Experience in Strategic planning and project management
- Supply/demand modelling experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical skills

**What’s it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

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