Workforce Planning & Forecasting Lead
Job Title: Workforce Planning and Deployment
Salary: The starting salary is £59,839, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.
The salary is broken down as £56,911 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £69,342. Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Kilburn
The Metropolitan Police Services (MPS) is the largest police service in the country. As a Workforce Planning & Forecasting Lead, you’ll be one of the 14,000 people who support our frontline officers behind the scenes. Play your part in keeping London safe. Join us.
As a Workforce Planning & Forecasting Lead, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to deliver forecasts and models for c.50,000 people in over 70 business units and operational OCUs. Working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, you’ll deliver high quality workforce planning to the UK’s largest police service.
We’ll be looking to you for in-year resource plans that reflect immediate priorities, budgets, policy and legislation. You’ll also build resource plans for up to five years in the future and collaborate with partners to translate metrics, KPIs, levers and assumptions into forecasts. Ready to design and build forecasting models, and assess forecasts against performance too? This could be the ideal opportunity for you.
With complete scenario modelling and a team of analytics and data professionals to lead, this is no role for a beginner. You’ll need statistical analysis, sensitivity analysis and regression analysis skills as a minimum. It’s also important that you’re inquisitive, bold and ready to look for new and effective ways to deliver your work and create value for stakeholders. And naturally, you’ll have expertise in workforce planning and deployment processes plus the courage to use new techniques and technologies to optimise outputs.
In return for your skills and dedication, you can expect a competitive salary, a Civil Service pension, excellent career development and one of the most rewarding roles around.
This is an exciting opportunity within the Workforce Planning and Deployment Team of the Metropolitan Police, supporting the direction for the Corporate Workforce Planning and Insight team, through delivery of forecasts & models for all c.50, 000 people into 70+ business units and operational OCUs.
Working for the Met doesn’t have to mean patrolling the streets. Just as important as our uniformed officers is our 14,000-strong team of professional and support staff working behind the scenes. It’s these skilled people who provide the organisational capability to police London in line with our values.
Duties and Responsibilities
Responsible for the delivery of in-year resource plans that reflect immediate priorities, budgets, policy & legislation, and are based on defined metrics, KPIs, levers and assumptions.
- Builds resource plans up to 5 years, collaborating with partners to translate metrics, KPIs, levers and assumptions into forecasts
- Design and build forecasting models and processes, assessing forecasts against performance
- Complete scenario modelling, analysing outputs to drive leadership decisions
- Maintain data catalogue working with data partners to ensure compliance
- Champion effective governance and compliance for the Workforce Planning and Deployment team
- Ensure data integrity and adherence to data quality standards
- Provide visible leadership and collaboration across stakeholders
- Lead and develop a team of workforce analytics and data modelling professionals
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, and drive high standards across the team
Key Skills & Qualifications
- Statistical analysis, sensitivity analysis and regression analysis as a minimum
- Ability to extract data using SQL, Python or other analysis tool
- Ability to carry out statistical analysis to obtain insight
Benefits
You’ll also enjoy the kind of great benefits that you’d expect from one of London's largest employers.
These include;
- Annual leave entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service
- Civil service pension arrangements
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Membership of Met sports and social clubs
- Flexible working conditions and many more.
London is one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world – and policing it is no easy task. It takes a huge number of people from all sorts of different backgrounds with a wide range of skills and experience. Do you have what it takes to be one of them? Find out if a career with the Met is what you’re looking for and what kind of challenges; experience and rewards you could have in store.
How to apply
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement, and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 4th of March 2025.