Building or reshaping a team?
Start with the reporting structure, then identify which appointments should come first.
Workforce Planning Resources
Plan Your Team. Understand the Commitment.
Free tools for clearer team structures, hiring budgets and recruitment decisions.
Whether you are planning your first appointments or reviewing an established team, the decisions are connected. Structure affects cost. Packages affect the budget. Hiring priorities shape the brief.
Explore our free workforce planning tools to organise those decisions, test your assumptions and create something useful to share with colleagues. Built for HR teams, business owners and leadership teams, with the practical needs of commodity and financial markets businesses in mind.
Choose Your Planning Tool
Build the part of the plan you need today. Each tool opens on its own page, with guidance and downloadable results.
Use your own planning assumptions. These tools do not provide live salary benchmarks or verify the availability of candidates. Save a plan file before leaving if you want to reopen your work.
Not Sure Where To Start?
Choose the question closest to the decision in front of you.
Preparing the numbers?
Build the hiring budget, then look more closely at packages or the cost of recruiting again.
Ready to recruit?
Bring the business need, candidate profile and practical terms into a structured brief for discussion.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Imperium see the information I enter or the plans I create?
No. Imperium does not receive or have access to the information you enter into these tools. Your entries and calculations are processed locally in your browser, rather than being sent to us.
We cannot view your employee details, salaries, organisation charts, budgets or recruitment briefs. Saved plan files and downloaded reports are saved to the location you choose; they are not sent to Imperium. We only see your work if you choose to share it with us, for example by emailing a report.
Are these workforce planning tools free?
Yes. All six tools are free to use, including their downloads. Choose the tool you need and build your plan using your own assumptions. Using a tool does not commission a search or a research project with Imperium.
Do the tools provide salary benchmarks?
No. The calculators use the figures you enter, and any example figures are illustrative. They do not establish market pay, validate a package or confirm candidate availability. Imperium can scope separate salary benchmarking and market research around an agreed product, geography, seniority and peer group.
Can I save my work and download the results?
Yes. Each tool can save a plan or brief file that you can reopen in that same tool. The planning and comparison tools offer Excel reports, while the Recruitment Brief Builder produces a PDF; the organisation chart also has a chart download. There is no automatic saving, so save your editable file before leaving. Tool entries are processed locally in your browser and are not sent to Imperium by these tools.
Can Imperium help develop or deliver the plan?
Yes. We can discuss the requirement, investigate the relevant talent market and commission remuneration or viability research where needed. That work can inform a defined retained search or an ongoing Search Partnership. Share your plan as a starting point for a conversation about the scope and support required.
A stronger team starts with a clearer view of what comes next
Put Market Evidence Behind Your Workforce Plan
Test the assumptions. Refine the requirement. Secure the right people.
These tools help you organise the plan. Imperium can help establish whether the compensation, talent availability and hiring approach reflect the market you intend to recruit from.
Through bespoke research, salary benchmarking and direct market mapping, we can strengthen the brief before executing an agreed retained search or supporting an evolving programme through a Search Partnership.
