Director, Strategic Workforce Planning

LSEG is seeking a highly experienced and strategic leader to evolve our enterprise Strategic Workforce Planning capability.

As Director, Strategic Workforce Planning, you will be responsible for translating business strategy into workforce strategy, enabling leaders to make informed decisions about workforce size, shape, skills, location, productivity and investment. You will create the frameworks, methodologies, governance and capabilities that connect workforce planning, talent strategy, organisation design, skills, finance and business planning into a single integrated approach.

Working closely with Executive leadership, Finance, Business Leaders, Engineering and the broader People Function, you will lead the development of a leading workforce planning capability that supports both short-term operational planning and long-term strategic workforce transformation.

This role will act as the enterprise authority for workforce planning and workforce intelligence, driving the adoption of data-driven workforce decisions across a global organisation of more than 38,000 employees and external workers.

Key Accountabilities:
Define and lead LSEG's enterprise Strategic Workforce Planning strategy and roadmap.

• Translate business strategy, growth ambitions and transformation priorities into workforce implications and workforce plans.
• Develop multi-year workforce scenarios to support strategic decision making.
• Lead workforce demand, supply, capability and capacity planning across divisions and functions.
• Establish planning methodologies, standards and governance that can be adopted consistently across the organisation.
• Drive workforce-based decisions regarding growth, restructuring, location strategy and investment priorities.

Roll out and evolve our Operational Workforce Planning foundational capability.

• Own the evolution of enterprise workforce planning capabilities and supporting technologies.
• Partner with Engineering, Finance and HR teams to optimise planning processes and data flows.
• Drive adoption of workforce planning platforms including Workday Adaptive Planning and workforce analytics solutions such as Visier.
• Ensure workforce plans are embedded into annual planning, budgeting and forecasting cycles.
• Lead the continuous improvement of planning capabilities through technology, automation and AI-enabled insights.

Skills and Future workforce Strategy & AI Impact

• Partner with Talent, Learning and AI Workforce Transformation teams to define future workforce capability needs.
• Establish frameworks to identify critical skills, future skill requirements and capability gaps.
• Support the organisation's transition towards skills-based workforce planning and deployment.
• Integrate skills intelligence into workforce planning and talent strategies.
• Develop approaches for workforce reskilling, upskilling and redeployment at scale.

Experience & Qualifications required

• Significant experience leading Strategic Workforce Planning within a large global organisation.
• Proven track record building workforce planning capabilities, operating models or centres of excellence.
• Experience partnering with Executive leadership teams on strategic workforce decisions.
• Deep understanding of workforce planning methodologies, workforce analytics and scenario modelling.
• Strong knowledge of organisation design, workforce transformation and talent strategy.
• Experience implementing or operating workforce planning technologies and analytics platforms.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect workforce investments to business outcomes.
• Deep experience with Workday Adaptive Planning.

• Experience within financial services, technology, professional services or large multinational organisations.
• Consulting or transformation leadership experience.
• Experience leading skills-based workforce planning initiatives.
• Experience incorporating AI and advanced analytics into workforce planning processes.

Career Stage:

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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