Strategic Enterprise Workforce Planning Lead

UKG; United States; On-site; USD 169,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Sr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to lead enterprise planning and build scalable models across headcount, location strategy, and talent supply. You’ll translate complex data into clear guidance for senior leaders and partner with Finance, HR, and Talent Acquisition.

You will design and automate planning workflows using Power BI, Power Automate, and AI approaches, delivering actionable insights and governance across the workforce planning cycle.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in workforce planning, People Analytics, finance, or related field.
• Experience 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.
• Exceptional business and financial acumen, consulting skills, and executive communication.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant quantitative or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range workforce planning cycles in partnership with Finance, HR BP, 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, opportunities, and trade-offs.
• Turn business strategy into bold, evidence-based recommendations on headcount, investments, capacity, restructuring, location strategy, and deployment.
• Advise senior leaders, navigate uncertainty, and translate complex analysis into clear decisions and actions.
• Lead location and labor-market analyses and partner with TA on recruiting capacity, sourcing, and build-buy-borrow strategies.
• Track plans, 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 tech.
• Build workforce planning capability across HR and the business through practical tools, guidance, training, and organizational design support.

Skills

Workforce planning

People Analytics

Forecasting

Scenario modeling

Model validation

Coding analytical models

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative or business

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

Excel

Anaplan

SQL

Python

R

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Job description

UKG is seeking a Sr. Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to lead enterprise planning and build scalable models across headcount, location strategy, and talent supply. You’ll translate complex data into clear guidance for senior leaders and partner with Finance, HR, and Talent Acquisition.

You will design and automate planning workflows using Power BI, Power Automate, and AI approaches, delivering actionable insights and governance across the workforce planning cycle.