Remote Enterprise Workforce Planning Lead

UKG

Honolulu (HI)

Remote

USD 169,000 - 241,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

UKG is seeking a Sr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to lead our enterprise workforce planning capability.

You will own the planning cycle, build advanced models and insights, and advise senior leaders on headcount and location strategy across the organization. You will design and maintain demand/supply models, connect workforce and financial data, and drive automation using Power BI, Power Automate, and AI to enable better decisions.

Qualifications

10+ years of progressive experience in workforce planning, People Analytics, finance, business planning, data science, or a related field.
Track record of building or transforming an enterprise workforce planning capability in a large, complex, or matrixed organization.
Ability to work independently with limited direction and navigate ambiguity.
Deep expertise in workforce planning, forecasting, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and model validation.
Advanced, hands-on ability to code and build analytical models.
Advanced proficiency with Power BI, Power Automate, Excel, Anaplan, SQL, Python, R, UKG Pro, IBM Planning Analytics, or comparable platforms.
Experience integrating complex workforce, financial, recruiting, and labor-market data with strong data quality, documentation, and control practices.
Exceptional business and financial acumen, consulting skills, and executive communication, with the presence to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant quantitative or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Lead UKG’s monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range workforce planning cycle in partnership with Finance, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, People Analytics, and business leaders.
Build a scalable enterprise workforce planning process and advance our models, tools, data, governance, and planning standards.
Design, code, validate, and maintain workforce demand, supply, capacity, cost, skills, attrition, hiring, and internal-movement models and scenarios.
Connect workforce, financial, recruiting, skills, and external labor-market data to reveal risks, opportunities, and trade-offs.
Turn business strategy into bold, evidence-based recommendations on headcount, workforce investments, hiring capacity, restructuring, location strategy, and talent deployment.
Advise senior leaders, navigate uncertainty, and translate complex analysis into clear decisions and action.
Lead location and labor-market analyses and partner with Talent Acquisition on recruiting capacity, sourcing, and build-buy-borrow strategies.
Track plans against results, assess model performance, and help leaders adapt as business conditions change.
Reimagine and automate planning, modeling, workflows, and reporting through Power Automate, AI, and other technologies.
Build workforce planning capability across HR and the business through practical tools, guidance, training, and targeted organizational design support.