Resource Planning Analyst
| Posting date: | 06 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 June 2025 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK42 9AP |
| Company: | Reed Talent Solutions |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | MaPS00844-334824 |
Summary
Role Overview
The Resource Planning Analyst will report directly to Workforce Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for: Key Responsibilities: • Create and maintain optimised schedules for contact centre and quality staff, including the supervisor rota, to meet forecasted demand and accommodate specialist availability and skill sets. • Coordinate with the Workforce Planning Manager and other key stakeholders to align staffing with strategic goals, and communicate performance, resource trends, and capacity requirements, providing actionable insights and recommendations. • Partner with training and quality teams to schedule training sessions, meetings, and other activities without impacting service levels. • Identify opportunities to enhance workforce management tools, processes, and methodologies, and audit and support external delivery partner planning forecasts and assumptions. • Generate and distribute regular reports on workforce performance, including shrinkage, attrition, and productivity metrics, and maintain an ongoing review of capacity planning and forecasting trends across all service lines. • Conduct post-mortem analyses of staffing issues or missed targets to inform future planning. • Prepare and maintain schedules for all departments utilising workforce management tools and/or Excel, and be the point of contact for coordinating and managing the approval of all offline activities including annual leave and flexible working requests. • Prepare annual leave reports ensuring that staff are able to book annual leave within the holiday year without compromising service. • Establish resourcing requirements against live roles and vacancies to plan the recruitment timelines and approvals based on trends in attrition and seasonal demand.
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.
To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate: • Previous experience in a similar role, ideally within a contact centre or customer services environment. • Previous exposure and understanding of Work Force Management tools and Excel-based rotas. • Professional and flexible approach with a “can do” attitude. • Highly self-motivated and performance orientated with the ability to prioritise. • Methodical, with excellent attention to detail. • Excellent skills in Excel and a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Power BI. • Highly organised, self-motivated individual who can produce high quality work under pressure.
About Us
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK. At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values: • Caring We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform. • Connecting We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. • Transforming We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact. Our Inclusive Working Environment By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.” Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.
What We Offer
• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays • Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary) • Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains • Cycle to work Scheme • Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs • Life assurance scheme • Give as you earn scheme • Employee assistance programme (EAP) • PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing) • Enhanced family and sick pay • Paid volunteering (2 days a year) • Recognition Scheme • Discounts portal to numerous retailers Flexible Working At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
What We Offer
• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays • Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary) • Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains • Cycle to work Scheme • Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs • Life assurance scheme • Give as you earn scheme • Employee assistance programme (EAP) • PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing) • Enhanced family and sick pay • Paid volunteering (2 days a year) • Recognition Scheme • Discounts portal to numerous retailers Flexible Working At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
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