Director of Workforce Planning

Your Career

As a leader in establishing a new workforce planning function you will work across the company to analyze workforce needs forecast future talent requirements and develop workforce strategies and plans that align to the companys strategic and financial plans.  Partnering closely with business leaders Finance and the People team you will leverage your expertise to support and help execute these plans.  Workforce plans will include a longrange strategy for resource allocation as well as short term plans that cover the number of people mix of insourcing and outsourcing locations role level mix and high level cost impact. Your goal is to help us optimize resource allocation to maximize productivity and efficiency. You will develop metrics and a monitoring plan to ensure the effective implementation of the plan while identifying ways to continually improve the overall resource allocation of the company. 

Your Impact

• Influential Leadership  Ability to inspire and influence in highly matrixed fastmoving and changing environments  Thrive amidst ambiguity and build momentum through strong relationships and impactful contributions
• Data Analytics and Visualization  Summarize people costs from the financial plan and visualize data to track progress effectively
• Data Modeling  Develop long and shortterm scenarios in partnership with Finance articulating the HC and cost impact of various people strategies
• Organizational Design  Partner with People Business Partners and Executive Business Leaders to evaluate and optimize organizational effectiveness and efficiency
• Program Management  Execute strategies with clear milestones over the long term to deliver results
• Crossfunctional Collaboration  Work seamlessly across finance HR strategy and business

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Strategic planning
  • Develop a 3year Workforce Plan by function
  • Establish first principles for resource allocation
  • Define productivity metrics by segment and role within each function
  • Identify critical roles and skills necessary for functional strategy execution and potential gaps
  • Launch transformational and hygiene initiatives to optimize revenue per employee
  • Create comprehensive headcount and budgetary plans for personnel
• Operational plans
  • Support functional leaders to develop workforce plans as part of the annual planning process
  • Specific milestones for all transformations & hygiene initiatives
  • Monitor and track progress on a quarterly basis
• Companywide initiatives to improve effectiveness
  • Identify companywide opportunities to improve effectiveness
  • Strategize around location and filling capability gaps through hiring pipelining or development
  • Improve organizational structure regarding spans and layers
• Inform execution for enabling functions
  • Promotion rates  establish by function as a driver costs 
  • Places  space planning 
  • Recruiting  sourcing pipeline and capacity required 
  • IT  system automation & AI dependencies
  • Learning  learning needs to support critical capabilities
  • Compensation & benefits  comp & bens strategy
  • Procurement inform of sourcing needs
  • Contingent Workforce Team  identify contract workers based on desired mix

Additional Information :

The Team

The People Strategy & Transformation team is pivotal in shaping the future of our company. By harnessing the power of people analytics we identify the key factors that drive employee engagement and productivity. Our performance management strategies ensure alignment with our core priorities while our workforce planning initiatives map out a clear path to meet our future organizational needs. 

Compensation Disclosure 

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $203000 $278750/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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