Senior Strategic Workforce Planning Architect

UKG; Santa Fe (NM); 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. You will own the planning cycle, create advanced models, and advise senior leaders on headcount, hiring, location, and talent deployment.

You will design and maintain models, connect workforce with finance and labor-market data, and help leaders act on insights in a remote, nationwide setting. Strong business acumen and coding skills are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in workforce planning, People Analytics, finance, or related field.
• Built or transformed enterprise planning in a large, complex org.
• Ability to work independently with limited direction in ambiguity.
• Deep expertise in forecasting, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and validation.
• Hands-on ability to code and build analytical models.
• Proficiency with Power BI, Power Automate, Excel, Anaplan, SQL, Python, R, UKG Pro, IBM Planning Analytics.
• Experience integrating workforce, finance, recruiting, and labor-market data with governance.
• Strong business and financial acumen, consulting skills, executive communication.
• Bachelor’s or equivalent experience in a quantitative/business field.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range workforce planning cycles with cross-functional partners.
• Build scalable enterprise planning processes and advance models, data, governance, and standards.
• Design, code, validate, and maintain models for demand, supply, capacity, cost, skills, and attrition.
• Connect workforce, financial, recruiting, and labor-market data to reveal risks and opportunities.
• Turn business strategy into headcount, investment, location, and talent decisions.
• Advise senior leaders and translate complex analysis into actionable decisions.
• Lead location and labor-market analyses with Talent Acquisition on capacity and build/buy/buy-sell.
• Track plans, assess model performance, and adapt as conditions change.
• Reimagine and automate planning, modeling, workflows, and reporting with Power Automate, AI, and related tech.
• Develop workforce planning capability with tools, guidance, training, and design support.

Skills

Analytical modeling

Forecasting

Executive communication

Independent work

Business acumen

Data integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in 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. You will own the planning cycle, create advanced models, and advise senior leaders on headcount, hiring, location, and talent deployment.

You will design and maintain models, connect workforce with finance and labor-market data, and help leaders act on insights in a remote, nationwide setting. Strong business acumen and coding skills are required.