Remote Senior Principal Workforce Planning Strategist

UKG Inc.; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking aSr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to shape and lead enterprise planning across headcount, location strategy, and talent deployment. You will own planning cycles, build advanced models, and advise senior leaders with strong business and consulting judgment.

The role requires hands-on coding to develop models, cross-functional collaboration with Finance, HRBP, and Talent Acquisition, and delivery of data-driven decisions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in workforce planning, People Analytics, finance, business planning, data science, or related field.
• Experience building enterprise workforce planning capability in a large, complex organization.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguous environments.
• Deep expertise in 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 data quality and control practices.
• Excellent business and financial acumen, consulting skills, executive communication.
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant quantitative or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead UKG’s monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range workforce planning cycle with partners.
• Build scalable enterprise workforce planning process and improve models, 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.

Skills

Power BI

Power Automate

Excel

Anaplan

SQL

Python

R

UKG Pro

IBM Planning Analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

Excel

Anaplan

SQL

Python

R

UKG Pro

IBM Planning Analytics

Job description

UKG is seeking aSr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to shape and lead enterprise planning across headcount, location strategy, and talent deployment. You will own planning cycles, build advanced models, and advise senior leaders with strong business and consulting judgment.

The role requires hands-on coding to develop models, cross-functional collaboration with Finance, HRBP, and Talent Acquisition, and delivery of data-driven decisions in a fast-paced environment.