Senior Workforce Planning Strategist

UKG Inc.; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 169,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG seeks a Sr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to build and lead our enterprise workforce planning capability, owning planning cycles, creating advanced models and insights, and advising senior leaders on headcount, hiring capacity, location strategy, and talent deployment.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong business judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to turn complex data into clear strategic direction across multiple functions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in workforce planning or related field.
• Proven enterprise workforce planning transformation experience.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguous environments.
• Deep expertise in forecasting, scenario modeling, and validation.
• Hands-on ability to code and build analytical models.
• Proficient with Power BI, Power Automate, Excel, Anaplan, SQL, Python, or R.
• Experience integrating complex data with quality controls.
• Strong business acumen, consulting skills, and executive communication.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or business field.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range planning cycles with cross-functional teams.
• Build scalable enterprise planning processes and advance models, data, governance.
• Design and maintain workforce demand, supply, capacity, cost, skills, attrition and movement models.
• Connect workforce data with finance, recruiting, and labor-market signals to reveal risks and opportunities.
• Translate business strategy into recommendations on headcount, investments, location strategy.
• Advise senior leaders and translate analyses into decisions.
• Lead location and labor-market analyses with Talent Acquisition.
• Track plans against results and adapt to changing conditions.
• Automate planning workflows using Power Automate, AI, and other tech.
• Build capability through tools, guidance, and training.

Skills

Workforce planning

People Analytics

Finance planning

Data science

Forecasting

Scenario modeling

Model validation

Coding analytics

Executive communication

Bachelor’s degree

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

Excel

Anaplan

SQL

Python

R

IBM Planning Analytics

Job description

UKG seeks a Sr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to build and lead our enterprise workforce planning capability, owning planning cycles, creating advanced models and insights, and advising senior leaders on headcount, hiring capacity, location strategy, and talent deployment.

This hands-on leadership role requires strong business judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to turn complex data into clear strategic direction across multiple functions.