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Senior Workforce Planning Specialist
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Senior Workforce Planning Specialist Full-time | Eight Mile Plains, QLD (office-based, 5 days per week)
About the opportunity
We’re seeking a highly experienced Senior Workforce Planning Specialist to lead and optimise workforce planning across a multi-site environment.
Working closely with senior leadership, this role is responsible for building a data-driven, forward-thinking workforce planning function,ensuring the right people are in the right place at the right time, while driving efficiency, compliance, and service continuity.
What you’ll do
- Lead workforce planning strategy, frameworks, and governance
- Oversee roster integrity and labour utilisation across multiple sites
- Drive a shift from reactive rostering to forecast-led workforce planning
- Provide insights and reporting on labour costs, utilisation, and workforce trends
- Optimise casual workforce models and reduce agency reliance
- Deliver workforce forecasting aligned to demand, growth, and seasonal peaks
- Partner with senior leaders to provide strategic workforce advice
- Build capability across teams in rostering, compliance, and planning
What you’ll bring
- Extensive experience in workforce planning, rostering, or labour optimisation
- Robust understanding of Australian awards and workforce compliance
- Proven ability to develop frameworks, reporting, and governance models
- Highly developed analytical skills with the ability to turn data into insights
- Experience influencing and partnering with senior stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills in complex, multi-site environments
Requirements
- Experience in a similar senior workforce planning role (in the OSHC, EC or Health Care sector would benefit)
- Proficiency with workforce planning and payroll systems
- Working with Children Check (or ability to obtain)
Why apply
- Strategic, high-impact role working closely with senior leadership
- Opportunity to build and shape workforce planning capability
- Stable, full-time role based in a central office location
Reach out to Katie at
[email protected] or 9249 2437.
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