Senior Workforce Planning Specialist

Key Accountabilities:

• Participates in the design and implementation of workforce planning framework, methodologies, and processes.
• Analyzes relevant data to forecast workforce needs and conducts assessments to ensure BCLC has the right people to deliver on exceptional gambling entertainment, today and tomorrow.
• Transforms data into meaningful business insights and actionable plans and communicates opportunities and workforce trends to senior leaders in the business.
• Works with People Insights & Analytics and with the business to help shape the design and development of predictive modelling to create scenarios or forecasting models helping the organization make fact-based talent planning decisions and proactive people strategies pertaining to future workforce.
• Works closely with P&C and business leaders to integrate standardized workforce planning practices into the organization
• Facilitates discussions on key strategic workforce trends and demands, predictive resourcing and capability insights, and future skill gaps.
• Provides workforce planning services to the business including analyzing workforce and skill gaps, as well as developing a workforce planning action plan that involves monitoring progress and updating the business.
• Works jointly with the People Recruitment team to align Strategic Workforce Planning with BCLC’s Recruitment strategy to effectively acquire and employ the workforce needed to achieve organizational goals and objectives.
• Collaborates with People Development to establish and effectively manage BCLC’s succession planning processes, including high-potential, critical role, and critical knowledge assessments. Works with P&C stakeholders (People Operations and Development, People Recruitment) and business leaders to ensure effective development plans are put in place to address these roles.

Skills and Requirements

Education and Experience

• A degree in a related discipline such as Business or Human Resources;
• CHRP designation is an asset;
• 4 to 6 years of experience in P&C Business Partnering combined with a solid understanding/ experience working with people workforce data and insights or related experience in previous roles involving strategic workforce planning;
• An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.

Technical Requirements

• Demonstrated application of best practices in the full range of workforce planning activities;
• Solid knowledge of the principles of workforce and succession planning;
• Ability to translate data into actions and recommendations;
• Strong business acumen to align both business objectives and P&C strategies with corporate goals to maximize shareholder value;
• Strong project and change management skills with a proven ability to successfully deliver and execute initiatives, products, programs, and/or policies;
• Demonstrated team building and leadership skills, and proven ability to motivate, coach and develop others;
• Strong spoken and written communication skills at all organizational levels;
• Strong negotiation and strategic influencing skills;
• Strong collaboration skills working both within and across the organization, at all levels;
• Good understanding and awareness of strategic and tactical business planning and executional issues and processes;
• Sound knowledge of P&C policies and programs and best practices;
• Strong ability to maintain confidentiality and demonstrates diplomacy and tact.
• Experience working within public sector guidelines is an asset;