Strategic Workforce Planning Partner

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

We are currently recruiting a Strategic Workforce Planning Partner to drive the alignment of Tesco Mobile's workforce with its strategic priorities. 

This role involves iterating and driving the SWP process, leading the quarterly workforce process, improving the organisation's use of people data and products, and ensuring integration with/ development of broader people processes such as recruitment/talent/performance. This position is crucial for crafting the workforce to unlock value creation and support the organisation's long-term goals. 

You will be responsible for

• Iterate and implement the strategic workforce planning process to align with Tesco Mobile's strategic goals
• Coordinate and drive the quarterly workforce planning process with our teams, ensuring it integrates seamlessly with other people processes
• Continuously consider how we can improve processes to align with strategic workforce planning and talent strategy, focusing on crafting a positive employee experience
• Take ownership of and develop the current workforce planning platform (TeamForm) to optimise engagement around workforce management and strategy alignment
• Work back from strategic priorities to proactively build a strategic view of the future workforce and how we can achieve our organisational outcome
• Continuously link talent allocation to value creation, identifying and proactively addressing talent gaps
• Ensure the SWP process integrates effectively with broader people processes
• Challenge and support team leaders and CoE leads to think critically about talent possibilities and decisions, promoting critical approaches
• Have a passion for people data, ensuring accuracy and relevance and develop metrics to understand the state of talent and the health/status of talent processes (e.g., recruiting funnel metrics)
• Effectively engage and influence senior leaders to adopt and support the SWP process, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement

You will need

• Strong analytical skills and proficiency
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Project management skills to navigate multiple partners and interaction patterns
• Ability to engage and influence senior leaders to drive process adoption and alignment with strategic goals Desired Skills
• Familiarity with human capital trends and macro-economic factors affecting workforce composition
• Experience with HR management systems like Oracle Cloud
• Knowledge of business strategy and operations
• Expertise in data management and quality improvement techniques
• Experience with platform ownership and adoption
• Previous experience working within an agile business - desirable

About us

A 50-50 joint venture between Tesco and VMO2 that was established back in 2003, Tesco Mobile has gone from strength to strength as we’ve launched into new services and markets. With more than 5 million customers, we’re the largest mobile virtual network operator in the UK. We’re proud to have an inclusive culture that’s uniquely Tesco Mobile, with a strong sense of community, plus all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders.

We care for human connection and we keep our customers at the heart of everything we do, which is why we’ve embraced the Agile way of working. Agile is more than just a methodology – it’s a liberating journey that puts customers and purpose first. It empowers us to self-organise, collaborate, co-create and rapidly inspect and adapt everything we do – allowing us to respond at pace to our customers’ needs. It encourages variety of thought and enables us to thrive, both individually and collectively.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.