Program Planning Manager

LanceSoft Europe; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

LanceSoft Europe is seeking a Workforce Planning Program Manager / Anaplan Product Owner in Belgium. You will lead the development and governance of workforce planning processes, tools, and dashboards, aligning HR, finance, and business partners with approved headcount strategies.

You will drive data-driven recommendations, manage data quality, and expand Anaplan usage across planning scenarios. The role requires strong Excel expertise and collaboration with HRIS and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.
• Advanced Excel with dashboards and data validation.
• Experience with workforce or financial planning tools.
• Experience with HRIS and organizational data.
• Proven program or project leadership across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong data accuracy, governance, and reporting discipline.

Responsabilités

• Lead development, refinement, and governance of workforce planning processes, tools, reporting routines, and documentation standards.
• Evaluate requests to assess alignment with workforce plans and impact.
• Drive recommendations and escalation for changes affecting plans and headcount.
• Design creation and maintenance processes for position management aligned with planning principles.
• Review data to identify misalignments and data quality issues.
• Advise HRIS on organizational structure changes resulting from planning activities.
• Develop improvements to position management, supervisory structures, and data integrity processes.
• Analyze workforce data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Build and enhance EC reporting related to workforce planning and structure.
• Expand Anaplan usage for planning, data validation, and dashboard enhancements.
• Collaborate with Compensation and Finance to provide inputs for financial impact analysis.
• Translate data insights into summaries and decision-support materials.
• Lead ad hoc analyses and projects related to workforce planning.

Connaissances

Advanced Excel

Anaplan experience

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Dashboards & reporting

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Outils

Anaplan

Excel

HRIS

Description du poste

Job Title: Workforce Planning Program Manager/ Anaplan Product Owner

Contract

Primary Tasks and Responsibilities

• Lead the development, refinement, and ongoing governance of workforce planning processes, tools, reporting routines, and documentation standards
• Evaluate position requests, backfill requests, organizational changes, and HRBP or business requests to assess alignment with approved workforce plans and identify potential impacts
• Drive recommendations, analysis, and escalation support for requests or changes that may impact workforce plans, organizational structures, headcount assumptions, or planning governance
• Design the "Create and maintain positions in EC" process in alignment with approved workforce plans, position management standards, and organizational planning principles
• Review EC position and organization data to identify misalignments, risks, data quality issues, or opportunities to improve workforce planning accuracy
• As subject matter expert, advise HRIS on supervisory organization updates, manager reporting changes, and related EC organizational structure activities as a result of Workforce Planning activities
• Develop and recommend improvements to EC position management, supervisory organization structure, open position management, and workforce data integrity processes
• Analyze workforce data to identify trends, gaps, risks, inconsistencies, and opportunities for improved planning, governance, and organizational effectiveness
• Build, manage, and enhance EC reporting needs related to workforce planning, position management, supervisory organizations, organizational structure, and workforce plan alignment
• Drive the continued expansion of Anaplam for workforce planning, including data validation, scenario building, report enhancements, dashboard improvements and maintenance, process integration, and planning use cases
• Partner with Compensation and Finance-facing partners to provide headcount-related inputs, workforce assumptions, and data needed to support financial impact analysis and ongoing scenario planning
• Translate complex workforce data and planning insights into clear summaries, recommendations, and decision-support materials for HR, business partners, and executive-level decision support
• Lead ad hoc analyses and special projects related to workforce planning, organizational structure, position management, headcount planning, and talent strategy

Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Finance, Information Systems, or related field preferred

Technical Profile Requirements

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, formulas, data validation, reporting tools, and dashboard or tracker creation
• Experience with workforce or financial planning tools preferred
• Experience with HR information systems, position management, organizational structures, or workforce data required
• Demonstrated experience leading programs, projects, process improvements, or cross-functional initiatives
• Experience building, maintaining, and managing dashboards or recurring reporting packages
• Ability to manage recurring processes, track requests, document decisions, and follow through on details
• Ability to partner effectively across Workforce Planning, HRIS, HR Business Partners, Compensation, Finance, Talent Acquisition, and business stakeholders
• Clear understanding of how workforce decisions impact headcount, labor cost, budget alignment, and organizational planning
• Ability to work through ambiguity and design scalable processes in a growing workforce planning function
• Continuous improvement mindset with ability to identify and implement opportunities for greater efficiency, consistency, and data accuracy