Vacancies Workforce Planning Manager

Main Responsibility

• Acting as the focal point for all personnel MI within the retail operation, working with large data sets producing quality and insightful analysis.
• Working with finance and operations stakeholders to prepare personnel budgets and forecasts, bridging movements, advising stakeholders on key budgetary and forecast assumptions, trade-offs, and opportunities.
• Report and track budget performance, provide timely variance analysis, understanding cost drivers.
• Assist with the preparation of monthly management accounts, analysis of variances to budget and forecast.
• Analyse key financial and HR metrics, trends, and variances to identify areas for improvement.
• Generate and distribute payroll reports for internal stakeholders, perform in-depth data analysis to identify discrepancies, trends, and anomalies in payroll data, and make data-driven recommendations for process improvements.
• Modelling personnel resource requirements, maintaining process work standards, simulating impact of volume and mix changes.
• Maintaining data management policies, ensuring data quality, implementing secure procedures, analysing data systems, supporting data users, and troubleshooting data-related problems.
• Drive the creation of data visualisations and dashboards to communicate insights effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
• Managing deadlines and priorities so that regular reporting is delivered to schedule.
• Responding with speed to stakeholder requests, develop, foster, and maintain working relationships.

Key knowledge and skills required:

• Previous experience in the same or similar role.
• Proven experience and proficiency in use of DAX, Power BI and relevant data visualisation tools.
• Proven experience of working with payroll.
• Proven experience of producing budgets and forecasts preferably within a healthcare environment.
• Proven experience of resource modelling and manpower planning.
• Proven experience of financial reporting, interpretation and analysis of financial statements and metrics
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Working to tight deadlines, ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong project management and organisational skills.
• High-level verbal and written communication skills.

The Ideal Candidate

Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

Package Description

• Competitive salaries.
• Excellent training & development opportunities.
• Paid Holidays.
• Workplace pension scheme.
• Staff Discount.
• Travel Loans and more…

About the Company

For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

‘Together we make a difference’