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Strategic Workforce Planning

Future-proof your talent

In a talent short market, maintaining operational consistency and agility is crucial for organisational success. Align your business strategy with your workforce strategy to ensure you have the right people in the right place at the right time.  

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Future-proof your access to talent

Our Strategic Workforce Planning enables agile headcount management, skills-based hiring for evolving strategies and enhanced recruitment for in-demand roles, to attract top talent to future-proof your business in an ever-changing market. 

Benefits of Strategic Workforce Planning

Informed decisions

Detailed analysis of factors affecting your future workforce needs, enabling better strategic planning.

Tailored support

Our flexible services allow you to address specific workforce challenges and strategic priorities.

Future-readiness

By forecasting and demand planning, we help you anticipate future workforce needs and develop talent interventions so you can prepare accordingly.

Expert guidance

Benefit from our consultants' expertise, ensuring your workforce strategy is aligned with your business goals and capable of overcoming potential hurdles.

Design your talent blueprint

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    Analyse and forecast

    We will evaluate your existing workforce and predict future needs based on goals, trends and anticipated changes in the industry

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    Determine talent availability and gaps

    We will support you in finding the right talent needed to fill any perceived current or future gaps in your workforce

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    Develop and implement your workforce strategy

    We will devise action plans and support you in their implementation. We will also help you to monitor progress and adjust accordingly

“Omni worked with UAL to recruit the entire Procurement team. This was a difficult brief in a short space of time. Their insight and diligence were excellent and approach highly professional.”
Interim Head of Procurement, UAL
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Strategic Workforce Planning FAQs

Omni’s Strategic Workforce Planning services include strategic analysis including environmental scans, capacity requirements, talent and availability gap analysis and consulting to support you develop strategic interventions. These components help organisations with scenario planning, demand forecasting, workforce segmentation, and developing strategic interventions. 

Effective and timely workforce planning goes beyond forecasting headcount and can provide agile people solutions to complement the future direction of your business. 

Labour market trends, skills shortages, globalisation, impact of technology, business confidence, organisations such as M&A or restructures are all factors that impact the ability to hire, develop and retain the talent needed.  

A strategic workforce plan informs good business decisions and yields important data so you can identify risks and develop a plan that is future proof for business success.  

Strategic Workforce Planning is the process of aligning an organisation’s business strategy with its workforce strategy. It involves analysing the current workforce, determining future workforce needs, identifying the gap between the present and the future, and implementing solutions so that an organisation can accomplish its strategic plan.  

Omni provides a range of services, including training to your internal teams, or consultancy from our SWP experts in our Talent Strategy team.  The team offer detailed market insights, practical tools, and expert guidance to help organisations develop and implement effective workforce strategies. We offer this service to all size of organisations, and typically those that are new to demand planning.  It’s not as complex as it seems, and our skilled team can support you through every step to develop anything from a six month to 5-year plan.  

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