Talent Planning Analyst in Leeds

Position Description:

Talent Planning Analyst
Location: Hybrid with our Leeds office
6 months Fixed term contract

CGI’s Talent Planning team plays a vital role in ensuring our people are connected to the right opportunities, enabling successful client delivery and sustainable business growth. As a Talent Planning Analyst in Leeds, you’ll help shape workforce decisions through meaningful insight, effective resource planning and strong stakeholder partnerships. You’ll take ownership of talent deployment and assignment activity, identify creative ways to improve processes and data quality, and work collaboratively with colleagues across the business. With the support of an experienced community, you’ll have the opportunity to influence workforce outcomes, improve utilisation and help our professionals build rewarding careers while contributing to CGI’s continued success.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

In this role, you will take ownership of day-to-day workforce planning and resourcing activity, helping connect CGI professionals with opportunities where their skills can make the greatest impact. You’ll manage demand, availability and assignments while providing stakeholders with clear workforce insight to support informed decisions.

Working closely with HR, Talent Acquisition and business stakeholders, you’ll be supported by a collaborative network while having the freedom to identify better ways of working. You’ll use data and insight to improve utilisation, strengthen workforce outcomes and develop creative improvements to processes, reporting and data quality.

• Plan & Coordinate: Manage workforce demand, availability and day-to-day resourcing activity.
• Match & Deploy: Connect CGI Partners with suitable opportunities, coordinating interviews and timely feedback.
• Own & Manage: Coordinate assignments, extensions, transitions, role offers and Service Order processes.
• Redeploy & Support: Help Partners who are In Between Assignments identify suitable opportunities and support effective utilisation.
• Analyse & Inform: Use workforce data to provide meaningful insight and support stakeholder decision-making.
• Maintain & Improve: Ensure accurate profiles, demand and assignment information within CGI Talento.
• Collaborate & Deliver: Partner with HR, Talent Acquisition and business stakeholders to achieve effective workforce outcomes.
• Improve & Innovate: Identify opportunities to enhance processes, reporting and data accuracy.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

You’ll bring experience in talent planning, resourcing, workforce planning or assignment management, alongside strong organisational, analytical and stakeholder engagement skills. You should be comfortable working with workforce data and systems, taking ownership of competing priorities and finding practical solutions, while collaborating effectively with colleagues across the business.

• Experience in talent planning, resourcing, workforce planning or assignment management.
• Good understanding of workforce deployment, utilisation and demand management.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to analyse data and translate findings into meaningful workforce insight.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proactive, solution-focused approach with strong attention to detail.
• Confidence working with systems, reporting tools and workforce data.
• Recruitment or resourcing support experience would be advantageous.
• Experience with resourcing platforms such as Talento would be beneficial.
• Understanding of the end-to-end workforce lifecycle would be advantageous.

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Skills:

• Communication
• Resource Management
• Talent Planning

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.