Senior Specialist, Workforce Planning
CIMIC Group is looking for a workforce planning specialist who enjoys solving complex workforce challenges and turning data into meaningful business decisions.
This newly created role sits within our Talent team and will play a key role in helping the business understand future workforce requirements across major projects, tenders and growth opportunities. You'll work with leaders across the Group to forecast workforce demand, identify capability gaps, provide market intelligence and deliver insights that influence workforce and talent strategy.
This is an opportunity to step into a highly visible role where you'll partner with senior stakeholders and have a direct impact on how one of Australia's largest infrastructure and engineering groups plans for future growth.
What you'll be doing
- Leading workforce forecasting and supply and demand analysis across projects and business units.
- Developing workforce planning models, scenarios and insights to support business decisions.
- Building dashboards and reporting that provide visibility of workforce risks, capability gaps and future hiring requirements.
- Providing labour market intelligence, talent mapping and workforce benchmarking.
- Partnering with Talent Acquisition teams to convert workforce forecasts into recruitment strategies.
- Working closely with operational, project, finance and executive stakeholders to support workforce planning outcomes.
- Driving improvements in workforce analytics, reporting, automation and data quality.
Contributing to the ongoing development of workforce planning frameworks, methodologies and best practice across the Group.
What we're looking for
You'll likely come from a workforce planning, workforce analytics, talent intelligence, people analytics or strategic planning background and be comfortable working with large data sets to tell a compelling story.
You'll bring:
- Experience in workforce analytics, workforce planning or a similar analytical role.
- Strong capability in forecasting, modelling and scenario planning.
- Advanced Power BI reporting and data visualisation skills.
- The ability to translate complex data into practical business insights.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills and confidence working with senior leaders.
- A commercial mindset and an interest in linking workforce outcomes to business performance.
Experience working across multiple stakeholders, projects or business units/lines of business.
Why join us?
This role offers the opportunity to work on some of the most significant infrastructure, engineering and resources projects in the region while helping shape the future workforce capability of the broader CIMIC Group.
You'll be part of a highly collaborative team, working on projects that combine workforce strategy, analytics, talent intelligence and business planning, with the scope to influence decisions at both an operational and executive level.
CIMIC Group Saint Leonards, Victoria, AUS Office
Saint Leonards, Australia
