Strategic Healthcare Workforce Manager

Tucson Medical Center; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tucson Medical Center is seeking a Manager Workforce Planning to lead forecasting, tracking, and optimization of the nursing workforce across the health system. The role partners with Nursing Leadership, Finance, and HR to ensure safe staffing, quality care, and cost-effective workforce models.

The position emphasizes analytics, payroll integrity, and productivity benchmarking to support compliant, data-driven decision-making across operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Five (5) years in workforce planning, nurse scheduling, or healthcare operations management.
• Experience with payroll, budgeting, and labor management is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate system-wide staffing levels using predictive analytics and patient volume trends.
• Partner with Finance to maintain position control, labor budgets, and FTE management.
• Provide staffing forecasts and recommendations to leadership based on census, acuity, and service-line growth.
• Manage payroll validation, specialty pay tracking, and timecard review for travelers, float pool, and inpatient staff.
• Coordinate scheduling systems to ensure compliance with staffing policies and equitable resource distribution.
• Develop and monitor labor KPIs, including overtime, agency utilization, and non-productive time.
• Maintain dashboards and reports for staffing performance metrics.
• Identify trends and develop data-driven recommendations to optimize labor utilization.
• Serve as system resource for workforce analytics and labor management best practices.

Skills

Excel

Data analytics

Written and oral communication

Customer service

Organization

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Kronos

Smart Square

Job description

Tucson Medical Center is seeking a Manager Workforce Planning to lead forecasting, tracking, and optimization of the nursing workforce across the health system. The role partners with Nursing Leadership, Finance, and HR to ensure safe staffing, quality care, and cost-effective workforce models.

The position emphasizes analytics, payroll integrity, and productivity benchmarking to support compliant, data-driven decision-making across operations.