Strategic Workforce Planning Manager

Location: Sydney NSW 

Type: 12-month max term contract

At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.

We’re an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries.

Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks, build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’ve been cultivating resilience since 1886, when our founders started a marine insurance company in Townsville, Australia to give early pioneers a safeguard against uncertainty.

Today, we employ more than 11,600 people around the world, and our product portfolio includes property, motor, crop, energy, marine and aviation insurance.

The opportunity

QBE Insurance is currently undergoing a significant period of change and transformation, with a strong emphasis on planning for the future. As such, we are seeking an experienced Strategic Workforce Planning Manager to join the organisation and lead strategic workforce and capacity planning across Australia.

To enable informed, strategic business resource decision making, your role will involve:

• Facilitating the strategic workforce planning process using the QBE framework to enable leaders to make choices about priorities and to optimize their workforce.
• Providing workforce analytics and reporting to improve performance, address workforce challenges, facilitate staff mobility and support business decision making
• Collaboration with stakeholders and functional Workforce Planning Managers across the business to understand current and future workforce demands to enable scenario planning.
• Defining the skillsets and capabilities required for the organisation to remain future-fit
• Translating complex workforce data into actionable insights and initiatives that create an understanding of how they create value.

Your story so far

To deliver on our vision and goals, you’ll demonstrate extensive strategic workforce planning experience gained from partnering with broad and complex organisations. You are comfortable operating within an environment of change and transformation, identifying resourcing needs and skillset requirements, and delivering a plan to address this.

You have strong partnership skills and can collaborate closely with business leaders to understand their objectives and demonstrate how, with the right strategic workforce plan, they can achieve and deliver on this. Your eye for data and analytics allows you to provide well-informed recommendations which are both pragmatic, yet also innovative and future-fit.

We are here to support you

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Our ‘Thriving at Our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 12 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network
• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
• Gold Employer status for 2019-2022 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
• Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
• Family Friendly Accredited since 2021

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.

QBE takes a risk and compliance approach to COVID-19 vaccination and strongly encourages our employees to be vaccinated. Some roles require COVID-19 vaccination to perform the role. When relevant we will ask you to share your vaccination status as part of the application process. We won’t be able to progress with applications where candidates choose not to disclose their status for roles that require vaccination in line with our risk and compliance approach.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at recruitment@qbe.com.