Strategic Enterprise Workforce Planning Leader

UKG Inc.; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 169,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to build and lead our enterprise planning capability. You will own planning cycles, develop advanced models, and advise senior leaders on headcount, capacity, and location strategy across the organization.

You’ll connect workforce, financial, recruiting, and labor-market data to uncover risks and opportunities, driving strategic decisions. A hands-on leader with strong business judgment.

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 enterprise workforce planning capability in a large, complex org.
• Ability to work independently with limited direction and navigate ambiguity.
• Deep expertise in 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 and governance.
• Exceptional business and financial acumen, consulting skills, and executive communication to influence senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant quantitative or business discipline, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead UKG’s monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range workforce planning cycle with cross-functional partners.
• Build a scalable enterprise workforce planning process and advance models, data, governance, and standards.
• Design, code, validate, and maintain models for demand, supply, capacity, cost, skills, attrition, hiring, and movement.
• Link workforce, financial, recruiting, and labor-market data to reveal risks, opportunities, and trade-offs.
• Translate business strategy into evidence-based recommendations on headcount, capacity, location strategy, and talent deployment.
• Advise senior leaders and translate complex analysis into clear decisions and actions.
• 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 adapt as conditions change.
• Automate planning, modeling, workflows, and reporting via Power Automate, AI, and other technologies.
• Build workforce planning capability through tools, guidance, training, and organizational design support.

Skills

Workforce planning

People Analytics

Finance / business planning

Data science

Independent work

Analytical modeling

Power BI

Power Automate

Excel

SQL

Python

R

UKG Pro

IBM Planning Analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or business discipline

Advanced degree (preferred)

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

Excel

Anaplan

SQL

Python

R

UKG Pro

IBM Planning Analytics

Job description

UKG is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Workforce Planning Consultant to build and lead our enterprise planning capability. You will own planning cycles, develop advanced models, and advise senior leaders on headcount, capacity, and location strategy across the organization.

You’ll connect workforce, financial, recruiting, and labor-market data to uncover risks and opportunities, driving strategic decisions. A hands-on leader with strong business judgment.