Primary Job Title Head of SWP and HR Analytics Primary Organization 
Metropolitan Police
Location Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Martin Oest is a workforce planning and transformation expert, and an accredited strategic workforce planner with experience from over 50 organisations. He has over 15 years’ experience as a consultant, project manager and operational manager with strong UK and international experience in change projects, workforce planning, HR analytics and
operational support. Martin’s focus is on operational and strategic workforce planning (including statistical modelling for forecasting), and HR analytics in interim roles, predominantly for large organisations.
Following a business degree in HR management and finance, Martin trained and worked for a market-leading workforce management system supplier before going on to work in both consultancies and large corporate operations, holding roles in organisations including Barclays and The Metropolitan Police.
He has a broad and in-depth experience, ranging from small companies of less than 100 employees to large and global organisations with over 50,000 FTE. He has planned for more than 14 different business groups covering over 40 global locations and has undertaken planning and analytics for workforce budgets in the billions of pounds. Martin has worked in both the private and public sector, and across most industries, but with a particular focus on financial institutions and telecoms.
In his current interim engagement, Martin has accountability for strategic workforce planning for the Metropolitan Police’s 50,000 FTE. He has designed and implemented effective workforce planning, delivering over 3,000 new hires in a year, forecasting attrition and planning for hires within 0.4% deviation. In addition, through HR analytics, he has revolutionised data into insight.
