Head of People Change and Workforce Planning

Job Title: Head of People Change and Workforce Planning Location: Any Hub ( Cumbernauld, Milton Keynes, Middlebrook, London) Contract and working pattern: Hybrid ( 3 collaboration days), permanent, full time 37.5 hours Are you ready to Be Your Best Barr None? Lets Grow!!! We are all about Being Your Best Barr None and having a career with real Moments that Matter! Employing around 950 people across the UK, we are proud to be a responsible business that takes care of our people, values diversity, gives something back to our communities and works to minimise our environmental impact. For 150 years AG Barr has been building great brands and is home to some of the nations favourite flavours. At our core is IRN-BRU, launched in 1901 and still going strong today, the vibrant RUBICON fruit based brand, Boost making every moment better with a caffeine kick, hydration hit or tasty treat, and FUNKIN where real fruit means authentic taste. We also have a number of exciting owned brands within our portfolio including MOMA, which crafts quality oats into great tasting oat drinks and porridges. There's never been a better time to join us! What we’re looking for… As our Head of People Change and Workforce Planning, you will play a strategic leadership role responsible for aligning AG Barr’s organisational model and skillsets with business strategy and technology platforms. You will lead organisational design decisions, rigorously evaluating work activity against FTE counts, cost models, technology capability and productivity outputs to optimise the overall organisational model financially and with the required capabilities. Working closely with People and Business Leaders, the role will translate business plans into clear workforce requirements through activity reviews and connecting it with process efficiency and technology capabilities. Continuous analysis of FTE numbers, organisational design and skill set mapping to ensure the organisation has the right capability, capacity and organisational structure to meet current and future needs in a streamlined way that is assessed financially. The role will provide leadership and oversight of significant change programmes, ensuring that the impact of change is understood early, appropriately planned and effectively delivered. It will also establish workforce planning disciplines that enable better decisions around organisational design, skills, recruitment, deployment, FTE and workforce cost. This role will bridge strategic workforce analysis with frontline operational delivery ensuring that structural change programs, transformations, and skillset evolutions are executed effectively, legally, on time and within budget across the business. This role leads on a continuous review of operating model versus organisational design. You will also support on M&A activity and the requirement to design and integrate structures Your responsibilities will include... 1.…