Director Workforce Planning and Management - Strategic Workforce Planning

CHRISTUS Health; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CHRISTUS Health is seeking a Director of Workforce Planning and Management to design solutions, analytics, and reporting aligning with our mission and long-term workforce strategy. You will lead capacity planning, KPI reporting, and cross-functional collaboration to forecast talent needs and optimize organizational design.

The role requires 5+ years in HR/workforce planning, with 3–5 years in management, and a strong background in analytics, Lean or Six Sigma, and HRIS systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Master’s Degree, MBA, or MHA preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years in HR, Talent Acquisition, or Workforce Planning.
• 3–5 years of supervisory or management experience preferred.
• Experience includes resource planning, workforce analytics, and HRIS.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise workforce planning strategies and programs.
• Develop multi-year workforce strategy using demand forecasting.
• Provide data-driven insights and dashboards for senior leadership.
• Develop and maintain workforce modeling tools and KPI reporting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address gaps in workforce needs.
• Oversee organizational design, labor standardization, and cost reporting.

Skills

Leadership

Workforce analytics

Capacity planning

Change management

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master’s Degree (MBA/MHA)

Tools

HRIS systems

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

Summary:

The Director Workforce Planning and Management designs solutions, analytics, and reporting to meet the long-term vision and roadmap for workforce strategies to develop new capabilities, establish new processes, and deliver projects with enterprise-level impact. Responsible for providing workforce planning solutions that align with CHRISTUS business initiatives, Mission, and Core Values. Is accountable for planning and overseeing strategic business processes, capacity planning, and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting. The Director will lead the Workforce Planning and Management teams to define and drive workforce planning priorities by deeply understanding CHRISTUS’s business strategy, the internal/external landscape, and talent supply and demand, and HR best practices.

Responsibilities

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Lead enterprise to define, develop, and deploy workforce planning strategies and programs, providing solutions in line with overall business strategy and mission.
• Directs the organization in the development and execution of a multi-year workforce strategy using demand forecasting to assess market capabilities to meet business needs.
• Provide thought leadership by leveraging knowledge of industry best practices and developing data-driven initiatives to proactively identify the critical workforce requirements necessary to execute business plans.
• Evolve and sustain reporting for visibility to senior leadership on short-, mid-, and long-term metrics required to meet business objectives.
• Ensures the development and implementation of workforce planning modeling tools, metrics, analysis, dashboards, and data visualizations; ability to analyze multiple sources of information/data, identify trends, translate data into vision, and develop recommendations based on analysis.
• Develop and maintain a robust position management system and process to report and forecast current and future workforce needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine what gaps exist between the current and projected workforce needs in order to create recruiting strategies to meet goals.
• Oversee change management initiatives to support workforce planning goals and projects.
• Lead organizational design development for the enterprise to drive effective and accurate organizational structure, labor standardization, staffing analytics, performance analysis, compliance, and cost reporting.
• Lead workforce planning analysis on current and future workforce needs related to specific job segments, leveraging internal/external workforce insights and trends utilizing demographics, job movements, workforce capability and capacity, headcount trends, key performance indicator (KPI) reporting, and overall impact to costs for hiring forecasts.
• Align with cross-collaborative teams to identify workforce market changes and skills availability to develop internal talent pipelines and career development programs to realize long-term strategies.
• Oversee the development and execution of a resource planning model designed to fulfill mid and long-term staffing plans and adjust recruiting efforts to meet patient demand, attract and retain talent, and offset costs of contract labor.
• Create visibility on current workforce capability and supply to meet the demands of the business and proactively advise on trends to refine workforce planning strategies based on variance in market and business needs.

Job Requirements

Education/Skills

• Bachelor\'s Degree required
• Master’s Degree, MBA, or MHA preferred

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, and/or Workforce Planning experience required.
• 3 -5 years of supervisory or management experience preferred.
• Preferred experience includes resource planning, workforce analytics, capacity planning, HRIS systems, process improvement, or application of Lean or Six Sigma practice.

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

• Human Resources certification is preferred.

Work Schedule

5 Days - 8 Hours

Work Type

Full Time