About Us

Minc has been supporting organisations with strategic workforce planning, recruitment and human resource needs since 2014. Our CEO, Neil Franklin, specialises in workforce planning using data and insights to create long-term solutions for sectors, companies or projects alike. Neil is one of the UK’s foremost leaders in workforce analytics and forecasting applying his skills to many sectors and international economies.

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Neil has extensive experience supporting clients and organisations in analysing skills and workforce trends across the rail, transport, infrastructure, Off and Onshore Wind, Water and other sectors in the UK and internationally. A recognised expert in strategic workforce planning, he produces data-driven insights that inform productivity and economic assessments of workforce needs and evolving skills requirements.

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He has been responsible for forecasting future workforce demands within the rail industry, ensuring the sector has the right number of skilled professionals in the right locations to meet industry needs and government investment commitments. He has also authored the rail sector’s and Offshore and Onshore Wind sector’s Annual Workforce Survey Reports for a major UK skills organisation.

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Under the guise of the major UK skills organisation, he deployed his workforce planning solution, for government bodies, Network Rail, HS2, Heathrow Expansion, Transport for London, Crossrail 2, Transpennine Route Upgrade programme and the Off and Onshore wind sector.