Senior Principal Workforce Planning Architect

UKG Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 169,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Sr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to lead our enterprise planning, owning the cycle, models, and insights that inform senior leadership on headcount, location strategy, and talent deployment.

You will integrate workforce, financial, recruiting, and labor-market data to produce clear, evidence-based recommendations. This role demands hands-on coding and modeling across Power BI, Excel, and planning tools, with the ability to influence executives and shape long-range

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in workforce planning, People Analytics, finance, business planning, data science, or 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, HRBP, Talent Acquisition, People Analytics, and leaders.
• Build a scalable enterprise workforce planning process and advance 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 and opportunities.
• Turn business strategy into bold, evidence-based recommendations on headcount, investments, capacity, restructuring, and location strategy.
• Advise senior leaders, navigate uncertainty, and translate complex analysis into clear decisions and action.
• Lead location and labor-market analyses and partner with TA on recruiting capacity and build-buy-borrow strategies.
• Track plans against results, assess model performance, and help leaders adapt as 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 organizational design support.

Skills

Workforce planning

Executive communication

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Advanced degree preferred

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 lead our enterprise planning, owning the cycle, models, and insights that inform senior leadership on headcount, location strategy, and talent deployment.

You will integrate workforce, financial, recruiting, and labor-market data to produce clear, evidence-based recommendations. This role demands hands-on coding and modeling across Power BI, Excel, and planning tools, with the ability to influence executives and shape long-range