Workforce Planning & Total Rewards Specialist
About Us
Woodlands Hospital is a next-generation healthcare system designed to meet the future of care. As an integrated acute and community hospital with specialist outpatient clinics and innovative care models, we deliver person-centred, connected and seamless care—extending far beyond traditional hospital walls.
Our mission is to redefine healthcare for an aging and diverse population through digital innovation, preventive health, and strong community partnerships. Grounded in team-based care, sustainability and health equity, we are building a healthier future for all.
Why This Role Matters
We are looking for a highly analytical and data-driven professional to play a key role in shaping workforce decisions that support organisational growth, operational needs, and financial sustainability. With Workforce Planning as the primary focus, you will partner stakeholders across HR, Finance, and business units to drive manpower planning, governance, and workforce analytics.
In addition, this role offers valuable exposure to the Total Rewards portfolio, providing opportunities to support compensation and rewards initiatives, participate in annual rewards cycles, and contribute to organisation-wide HR projects. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to broaden their HR expertise across both workforce planning and total rewards.
Key Responsibilities
Workforce Planning
- Drive the annual manpower planning and budgeting cycle, partnering Finance and HR Business Partners to forecast workforce requirements and manpower costs using data, workforce trends, and workload drivers.
- Evaluate, challenge, and rationalise manpower requests throughout the year, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, approved headcount, and budget.
- Strengthen workforce governance by establishing frameworks, policies, and monitoring mechanisms to enable effective manpower management.
- Design and develop dashboards and management reports that provide timely visibility into workforce metrics, utilisation, and budget performance.
- Manage manpower-related reporting requirements for internal and external stakeholders while driving process simplification and automation.
- Monitor manpower funding utilisation, coordinate funding submissions and claims, and support audit and compliance requirements.
Total Rewards
- Support the annual Total Rewards cycle, including salary reviews, bonus exercises, and rewards programmes.
- Manage day-to-day rewards operations and compensation-related matters
- Conduct market benchmarking and ad-hoc compensation and benefits studies to support rewards decision-making.
- Support the implementation of group-wide rewards initiatives, process enhancements and system-related projects.
Requirements
- 4-6 years of relevant experience in workforce planning, total rewards, or a similar analytical role.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to manage, structure, and derive insights from large and complex datasets.
- Hands-on and comfortable navigating ambiguity, with a passion for solving business challenges through data.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across functions.
- Knowledge of budgeting, financial planning, or cost management would be an advantage.
- Experience in dashboard development and data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI) would be advantageous.
- Proactive, curious, and driven to continuously improve processes, insights, and outcomes.