Strategic Resourcing Analyst

Location: Dartford, UK
Type: Full-time, Permanent

The Strategic Resourcing Analyst enables data-driven workforce planning by providing robust analysis, reporting and insight to support strategic capacity and capability decisions. Working closely with the Strategic Resourcing Partner and business leaders, the role translates workforce data into clear, actionable intelligence that informs recruitment, talent strategy and commercial planning.

As a key technical specialist for Saviom and associated reporting tools, the Analyst is responsible for data integrity, dashboard development and production of regular and ad hoc workforce reports. The role audits and validates project and people data, ensuring accurate forecasting of demand, utilisation and capacity risks across sectors and regions.

The Strategic Resourcing Analyst supports scenario modelling, skills gap analysis and trend reporting, including attrition, diversity and workforce stability metrics. By identifying emerging capability risks and highlighting data-driven insights, the role strengthens governance forums, enhances decision-making, and contributes to building a resilient, future-ready workforce.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Produce accurate, timely workforce reports and dashboards to support strategic capacity and capability planning.
• Maintain and audit data integrity within Saviom and related workforce planning systems, ensuring high-quality inputs and reliable outputs.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve reporting tools, dashboards and visualisations to enhance decision-making.
• Analyse demand, utilisation, capacity and forecasting data to identify emerging resourcing risks and opportunities.
• Support scenario modelling activities (e.g. project wins, growth plans, geographic expansion) to assess workforce impact, complimenting the external market research.
• Conduct gap analysis across job families and grades using system data and stakeholder input to highlight current and future capability risks.
• Monitor and report on key workforce metrics, including attrition, diversity, retention and workforce stability trends.
• Provide insight and data packs to inform talent forums, business resourcing meetings, sector strategy and talent discussions.
• Working alongside the Strategic Resourcing Partner, respond to requests supporting resourcing decisions and work winning pursuits. Collaborating with Talent and People Operations. This may extend to supporting with insights for Laing O'Rourke Australia.
• Support continuous improvement of workforce planning methodologies, processes and system adoption.
• Promote accurate and timely entry of project and staff/ resource data by engaging with stakeholders and providing guidance where required.
• Contribute to the development of standardised reporting frameworks, documentation and best practice guidance.

Skills:

Data Analysis & Insight Generation

• Interprets complex workforce and project data to generate clear, actionable insights.
• Identifies trends, risks and anomalies across demand, utilisation and capacity metrics.
• Translates data into meaningful narratives to inform strategic decision-making.

Technical & Systems Proficiency

• Demonstrates strong capability in workforce planning systems (e.g. Saviom), reporting tools and advanced Excel/BI platforms.
• Maintains high standards of data accuracy, validation and governance.
• Continuously seeks to improve reporting automation and dashboard functionality.

Attention to Detail & Data Integrity

• Applies rigorous quality checks to ensure accuracy and consistency of workforce data.
• Proactively identifies data gaps and works with stakeholders to resolve discrepancies.
• Understands the downstream impact of poor data quality on forecasting and business risk.

Business & Commercial Acumen

• Understands how workforce metrics link to commercial performance, project delivery and strategic growth.
• Anticipates capacity and capability risks and highlights implications for recruitment and talent strategy.
• Supports scenario modelling to assess financial and operational impact.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication

• Communicates complex data clearly and confidently to non-technical audiences.
• Builds effective working relationships with Talent Acquisition, Talent, HR and business leaders.
• Influences behaviours by promoting accurate data entry and evidence-based decision-making.

Why Laing O'Rourke?

Laing O'Rourke is committed to being a data-driven, future-focused engineering and construction enterprise. Joining our new Strategic Resourcing team means:

• Having a real voice in shaping our strategic workforce planning approach.
• Working with cutting-edge technology designed to transform how we deploy our people.
• Building a capability that directly enables business growth, performance, and productivity.
• Being part of a collaborative, forward-thinking environment where innovation is encouraged.

About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com