Job Description

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom (Hybrid)


JOB INFO


Job Identification
546
Job Category
Professional
Posting Date
05/14/2025, 02:49 AM
Apply Before
05/27/2025, 05:59 PM
Job Schedule
Full time
Locations
Human Resources
(Hybrid)

The full-time starting salary is normally 51,580.00 per annum, with progression available in post to 56,067.00 per annum. This role also carries a 10% market supplement.

Grade: MA3

Full-time, permanent role.

We're excited to announce a newly created opportunity for a Workforce Planning Manager--a pivotal role in shaping the University's workforce of the future - in our dedicated, friendly, and highly skilled Business Partnering Team. You'll help ensure we have the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles and at the right time. Your insight and strategic execution will be critical to strengthening our operational delivery and workforce capability across the University.



Reporting to the Head of HR Business Partnering, you'll lead efforts to embed a culture of continuous improvement and drive the development and implementation of consistent, forward-thinking workforce planning practices.



We're looking for someone who has strong people management and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence, challenge, and support senior leaders and stakeholders. You will bring hands-on experience in developing and embedding workforce planning strategies, processes, and tools, and be able to align workforce needs with organisational objectives in a proactive, data-informed way.



You will communicate with confidence, openness, and clarity, while bringing a creative mindset that embraces change and thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment.



We offer a generous pension and annual leave provision (40 days including statutory holidays), family-friendly policies and state-of-the-art campus facilities. We also operate a hybrid working model that allows staff to combine on-site and remote working where appropriate, dependent on work duties



Informal queries in relation to this opportunity are very welcome, and should be directed to Annwyn Williams, Head of HR Business Partnering at annwyn.williams@bcu.ac.uk.



Interviews for this role will take place on the 13th of June 2025.



The selection process will include an interview and a work-related exercise element, and full details will be provided to shortlisted candidates in advance.

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.

ABOUT US


At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK's second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.



Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.