Senior Workforce Planning Analyst: Strategy & Modeling

Knoxville Technology Council; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

401(k)

Adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Weekly pay

Job summary

Pilot Company is seeking an seasoned Workforce Planning expert to partner with senior leaders and define enterprise workforce planning frameworks. This role leads complex scenario modeling and guides decision-making across field and corporate populations, influencing strategy and technology adoption like Workday and UKG.

The ideal candidate will bring a decade of experience in workforce analytics, organizational design, and forecasting, with strong executive storytelling skills and a proven

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required
• Master's degree preferred
• Minimum ten years of experience in workforce planning, workforce analytics, operations strategy, finance analytics or related field
• Enterprise Workforce Planning Strategy and Framework Development
• Advanced Scenario Modeling and Forecasting Techniques
• Workforce Optimization and Labor Economics
• Organizational Design and Transformation
• Workday, UKG, or enterprise workforce technology ecosystems
• Executive storytelling and influencing at senior levels
• Experience operating in complex, large-scale, field-based environments
• Advanced analytics and modeling (Excel, SQL, etc.)
• Data visualization (Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
• This position requires candidates to be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Supports workforce planning strategy and frameworks, establishing standards for labor forecasting, workforce demand and supply planning, and scenario modeling across all major business functions.
• Participated in sessions with senior business and functional leaders to shape workforce strategy, translating long-term business objectives into integrated workforce plans, investment decisions, and operating models.
• Leads highly complex workforce scenario modeling efforts, anticipating business, operational, and labor market changes and developing forward-looking solutions related to growth, workforce optimization, organizational design, and workforce risk.
• Synthesizes enterprise-wide workforce insights, integrating data across turnover, hiring, productivity, scheduling, and capacity to identify trends, risks, and opportunities that influence executive decision-making.
• Drives the advancement of workforce planning capabilities and technology enablement, influencing the design and adoption of Workday, UKG, and analytics solutions to support scalable, enterprise workforce planning.
• Supports the ideation and creation of executive-level narratives and recommendations, influencing senior leadership decisions on workforce strategy, labor investments, and organizational priorities.

Skills

Workforce planning

Scenario modeling

Executive communication

Data analytics

Forecasting

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Workday

UKG

Power BI

Excel

SQL

Job description

Pilot Company is seeking an seasoned Workforce Planning expert to partner with senior leaders and define enterprise workforce planning frameworks. This role leads complex scenario modeling and guides decision-making across field and corporate populations, influencing strategy and technology adoption like Workday and UKG.

The ideal candidate will bring a decade of experience in workforce analytics, organizational design, and forecasting, with strong executive storytelling skills and a proven