Workforce Planning Lead at Woods Co Recruitment
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

27 Dec, 26

Salary

60000.0

Posted On

28 Sep, 26

Experience

6 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Yes

Skills

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Description
  • Lead workforce planning activities across assigned portfolios, disciplines or regions.
  • Develop short, medium and long-term workforce forecasts aligned to business demand.
  • Maintain rolling capacity plans highlighting resource gaps, surpluses and deployment opportunities.
  • Identify workforce risks early and provide mitigation recommendations.

Capacity & Demand Management 

  • Partner with Delivery Managers and Business Leaders to understand future workload.
  • Translate sales pipeline, secured work and project demand into workforce requirements.
  • Monitor workforce capacity and recommend hiring, redeployment, contractor engagement or workshare opportunities.
  • Support mobilisation planning for major projects.

Utilisation Management 

  • Monitor weekly utilisation performance across assigned portfolios.
  • Analyse utilisation trends and recommend actions to improve billability and productivity.
  • Support leaders to optimise workforce deployment while balancing employee development and project delivery.
  • Provide commentary explaining utilisation movements and future outlook.

Workforce Analytics & Reporting

  • Produce weekly and monthly workforce planning reports from our dashboards. 
  • Present workforce insights to senior stakeholders using clear recommendations. 
  • Monitor key workforce planning KPIs including: 
  1. Utilisation 
  2. Forecast accuracy 
  3. Resource demand 
  4. Capacity risk 
  5. Hiring requirements 
  6. Skills shortages 
  7. Ensure reporting accuracy and consistency across all business units. 

Stakeholder Partnership

  • Build trusted relationships with Operations Managers, Delivery Leaders, Project Managers and Talent Acquisition.
  • Act as the primary workforce planning advisor for allocated business areas.
  • Facilitate regular workforce planning meetings and planning reviews.
  • Influence workforce decisions through data-driven recommendations.

Data Governance & Continuous Improvement

  • Ensure workforce planning data remains accurate, complete and current.
  • Drive adoption of enterprise workforce planning processes and tools.
  • Identify opportunities to improve reporting, automation and planning processes.
  • Support implementation of new workforce planning initiatives.

Change & Adoption

  • Champion workforce planning best practice across the business.
  • Coach leaders on workforce planning methodology and utilisation principles.
  • Support change initiatives relating to workforce systems, reporting and planning standards.
  • Promote a culture of proactive workforce planning rather than reactive staffing. 

Responsibilities
  • Lead workforce planning activities across assigned portfolios, disciplines or regions.
  • Develop short, medium and long-term workforce forecasts aligned to business demand.
  • Maintain rolling capacity plans highlighting resource gaps, surpluses and deployment opportunities.
  • Identify workforce risks early and provide mitigation recommendations.

Capacity & Demand Management 

  • Partner with Delivery Managers and Business Leaders to understand future workload.
  • Translate sales pipeline, secured work and project demand into workforce requirements.
  • Monitor workforce capacity and recommend hiring, redeployment, contractor engagement or workshare opportunities.
  • Support mobilisation planning for major projects.

Utilisation Management 

  • Monitor weekly utilisation performance across assigned portfolios.
  • Analyse utilisation trends and recommend actions to improve billability and productivity.
  • Support leaders to optimise workforce deployment while balancing employee development and project delivery.
  • Provide commentary explaining utilisation movements and future outlook.

Workforce Analytics & Reporting

  • Produce weekly and monthly workforce planning reports from our dashboards. 
  • Present workforce insights to senior stakeholders using clear recommendations. 
  • Monitor key workforce planning KPIs including: 
  1. Utilisation 
  2. Forecast accuracy 
  3. Resource demand 
  4. Capacity risk 
  5. Hiring requirements 
  6. Skills shortages 
  7. Ensure reporting accuracy and consistency across all business units. 

Stakeholder Partnership

  • Build trusted relationships with Operations Managers, Delivery Leaders, Project Managers and Talent Acquisition.
  • Act as the primary workforce planning advisor for allocated business areas.
  • Facilitate regular workforce planning meetings and planning reviews.
  • Influence workforce decisions through data-driven recommendations.

Data Governance & Continuous Improvement

  • Ensure workforce planning data remains accurate, complete and current.
  • Drive adoption of enterprise workforce planning processes and tools.
  • Identify opportunities to improve reporting, automation and planning processes.
  • Support implementation of new workforce planning initiatives.

Change & Adoption

  • Champion workforce planning best practice across the business.
  • Coach leaders on workforce planning methodology and utilisation principles.
  • Support change initiatives relating to workforce systems, reporting and planning standards.
  • Promote a culture of proactive workforce planning rather than reactive staffing. 

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