The Senior Manager People and Planning is a key leadership position within the PPC directorate.

The role leads the development and implementation of the agency’s workforce plan, people analytics capability, recruitment operations and payroll. The role provides strategic leadership and authoritative advice to senior executives on workforce risks, workforce supply and demand, and remuneration.

The position is responsible for delivering evidence-based workforce insights that inform organisational decision-making, support workforce sustainability, and enable achievement of agency objectives. The Senior Manager leads a multidisciplinary team and works collaboratively across the agency to ensure workforce planning, workforce reporting, payroll and recruitment align with business priorities and legislative requirements.

To be successful in the role you will have:

- Extensive experience leading strategic workforce planning initiatives, including workforce forecasting and workforce risk management, talent management and succession planning around critical roles.
- Strong expertise in people analytics, workforce reporting and data interpretation, with the ability to translate complex workforce data into practical insights and recommendations for senior decision-makers.
- Demonstrated capability to lead enhancements to systems and processes, whilst maintaining customer services and integrity of workforce data, reporting and payroll processes.
- Exceptional strategic thinking skills, including the ability to identify emerging workforce trends, assess organisational impacts and develop creative solutions to complex workforce challenges.
- Highly developed stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with a track record of building productive relationships and achieving outcomes across diverse stakeholder groups.

The key duties of the position include:

Duties include, but are not limited to:

- Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of the agency’s workforce planning framework.




- Provide strategic advice on workforce composition, succession planning, talent management and future workforce requirements.
- Identify emerging workforce trends, risks and opportunities, and develop recommendations to address workforce challenges.
- Oversee the collection, analysis and interpretation of workforce data to support evidence-based decision making.
- Deliver high-quality workforce reporting, dashboards and strategic insights IBA’s Board, Executive and governance committees.
- Develop predictive and scenario-based workforce modelling to support strategic planning and workforce investment decisions.
- Ensure workforce data governance, integrity and compliance with relevant legislative and policy requirements.
- Oversee the payroll and recruitment operations function, including enabling system and process enhancements.
- Other duties as required.

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📌 Senior Manager, People and Planning (Sydney)
🏢 Indigenous Business Australia
📍 Sydney