Senior Principal Enterprise Workforce Planning Leader

UKG; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 169,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Sr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to build and lead enterprise workforce planning capabilities, owning planning cycles, creating advanced models, and advising senior leaders on headcount, capacity, and location strategy across the organization.

This high-impact, hands-on role requires deep expertise in forecasting, modeling, and data integration, with a focus on delivering evidence-based recommendations and scalable processes.

Qualifications

• '10+ years of progressive experience in workforce planning, People Analytics, finance, business planning, data science, or a related field.'
• 'A 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.

Skills

Workforce planning

People Analytics

Forecasting

Modeling

Power BI

Power Automate

Excel

SQL

Python

R

UKG Pro

Anaplan

IBM Planning Analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant quantitative or business discipline

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

Excel

Anaplan

SQL

Python

R

UKG Pro

IBM Planning Analytics

Job description

UKG is seeking a Sr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to build and lead enterprise workforce planning capabilities, owning planning cycles, creating advanced models, and advising senior leaders on headcount, capacity, and location strategy across the organization.

This high-impact, hands-on role requires deep expertise in forecasting, modeling, and data integration, with a focus on delivering evidence-based recommendations and scalable processes.