Director Workforce Planning

Thomas Jefferson University; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Tuition assistance

Retirement plans

Life and AD&D insurance

Job summary

Thomas Jefferson University is seeking a senior HR leader to develop workforce analytics, support mergers and divestitures, and drive organizational design across a complex enterprise. You will partner with executive stakeholders, Finance, Legal, and Operations to align workforce strategy with enterprise growth objectives.

The role requires 5+ years in HR business partnering and strong analytic capabilities, including payroll and HRIS-related reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field required.
• 5 years in an HR generalist, business partner, workforce planning, or organizational effectiveness role in a large, complex, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience leading HR workstreams in mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures.
• Proven track record in organizational design, including spans and layers analysis, restructuring, and change management.
• Experience developing and executing HR communications.
• Strong strategic thinking and business acumen; translate enterprise priorities into workforce strategies.
• Advanced analytical skills; proficiency with workforce data and executive-level reporting (Excel, Power BI, Workday, Visier).
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; capability to develop audience-appropriate HR communications.

Responsibilities

• Assist in workforce analytics dashboard development tracking headcount, attrition, and labor cost trends.
• Partner with Finance to align workforce plans with budget and strategic plans.
• Leverage HRIS and people analytics platforms to drive data-informed decisions.
• Lead HR due diligence workstreams for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Develop and execute integration or separation plans with workforce mapping and transitions.
• Conduct post-close reviews for workforce stabilization and culture integration.
• Collaborate with Total Rewards on job architecture and titling conventions.

Skills

HR analytics

M&A experience

organizational design

stakeholder management

data-driven decisions

Excel

Power BI

Workday/Visier

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Workday

Visier

Job description

Number of Positions In Requisition 1

Job Details

Responsible for development and maintenance of workforce analytics, implementation of organizational design initiatives, and facilitation of HR communications. Serves as the HR lead for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (M&A/D). Partners closely with HR Business Partners, senior executives, Finance, Legal, and Operations to ensure the workforce strategy is aligned to enterprise growth objectives and operational excellence priorities. In addition, provides targeted HR Business Partner support to enterprise shared services functions. This is a high-visibility, high-impact position requiring the ability to operate simultaneously at the strategic, operational, and advisory levels in a complex, matrixed organization.

Job Duties

• Assist in the build and maintenance of workforce analytics dashboards tracking headcount, attrition, span of control, internal mobility, time-to-fill, and labor cost trends.
• Partner with Finance to align workforce plans with the annual operating budget and multi-year strategic plan.
• Leverage HRIS, workforce management, and people analytics platforms to drive data-informed decisions.
• Serve as the enterprise HR lead for all merger, acquisition, affiliation, and divestiture transactions — from initial due diligence through integration or separation completion.
• Lead HR due diligence workstreams, assessing target organization headcount, compensation structures, benefit liabilities, employment agreements, restrictive covenants, open litigation, and cultural considerations.
• Develop and execute HR integration or separation plans, including workforce mapping, role harmonization, reporting structure design, and transition timelines.
• Conduct post-close integration reviews to assess workforce stabilization, retention risk, and cultural integration progress.
• Maintain an M&A HR playbook and divestiture readiness toolkit; and continuously refine based on needs of organization.
• Partner with key stakeholders on organizational design engagements across the enterprise, partnering with business leaders and HRBPs to evaluate and redesign structures that improve efficiency, agility, and alignment to strategy.
• Develop organization charts, transition-state designs, and future-state blueprints to guide restructuring initiatives.
• Support workforce reductions, role eliminations, and restructuring events — including severance modeling, WARN Act compliance, and selection process governance.
• Partner with Total Rewards on job architecture, job leveling, and titling conventions to ensure structural consistency across the enterprise.
• Draft, edit, and refine communications for a range of audiences — from frontline employees to the Board of Directors — ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment to organizational voice.
• Assist in development of communication plans and cadences for major HR initiatives.
• Collaborate with Communications.
• Maintain an HR communications library and ensure all people-facing content is current, accessible, and compliant.
• Provide HR Business Partner support to enterprise shared services functions (e.g., Finance, IT, Legal, Procurement, Supply Chain, Communications) as a backup resource.
• Partner with HRBPs across the enterprise to ensure consistent application of HR programs, policies, and practices within supported functions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field required.
• 5 years in an HR generalist, business partner, workforce planning, or organizational effectiveness role in a large, complex, matrixed organization
• Demonstrated experience leading HR workstreams in mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures, including due diligence, integration, and separation planning
• Proven track record in organizational design, including spans and layers analysis, restructuring, and change management
• Experience developing and executing HR communications
• Strong strategic thinking and business acumen; ability to translate enterprise priorities into workforce and organizational strategies
• Advanced analytical skills; proficiency with workforce data, people analytics tools, and executive-level reporting (Excel, Power BI, Workday, Visier, or equivalent)
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; demonstrated ability to develop polished, audience-appropriate HR communications and executive presentations
• Deep knowledge of employment law, WARN Act, ERISA, FMLA, ADA, and multi-state compliance obligations relevant to M&A and workforce change
• High degree of discretion, judgment, and professional integrity in handling confidential information
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence without authority across complex stakeholder environments
• Project management discipline; ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with competing deadlines and high executive visibility
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, adapting to rapid change, and leading through organizational transitions

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, or related discipline preferred.
• SPHR - Senior Professional in Human Resources - HR Certification Institute

Physical Demands

• Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Job Description Disclaimer

This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Work Shift & Location

Work Shift Workday Day (United States of America) Worker Sub Type Regular Employee Entity Thomas Jefferson University Primary Location Address 1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

About Jefferson University

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value.

Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.

Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.

Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.

Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.

Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.

All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

For more benefits information, In keeping with Jefferson's Mission, We Improve Lives, it is our goal to recruit, retain, develop and reward highly-qualified employees.

Jefferson encourages its employees to expand their knowledge and develop their careers through growth opportunities and continuing education.

With a long standing history, Jefferson has been advancing the medical field from the heart of Center City Philadelphia for nearly 200 years.

Our Mission, We Improve Lives, expands to every corner of the organization. From our weekly farmer’s market, to our new Jefferson Accelerator Zone for innovation, our employees’ passion for the community is evident by the daily gestures towards our patients, students and each other.