Strategic HR Planning & Enablement Executive

Comcast (CC) of Willow Grove; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Comcast is seeking an Executive Director of HR Planning & Enablement to shape how we plan, govern, and enable HR across the enterprise in a hands-on player-coach role. You will guide workforce architecture, data-driven decisions, and enterprise-wide HR programs while leading a small expert team.

You will partner across HR, Talent, Compensation, Technology, and Finance to align resources with the Enterprise People Plan, drive automation, and deliver measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive HR/enterprise planning experience.
• Hands-on practitioner who personally produces analyses, recommendations, frameworks, processes, executive materials, and solutions.
• Strong understanding of HR strategy, operating models, portfolio management, measurement, and cross-functional execution.
• Experience with job profiles, job families, job architecture, skills, workforce data, and related HR structures.
• Experience shaping automation, AI-enabled, or agent-supported work design including task decomposition and process redesign.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, written communication, executive storytelling, influence, and stakeholder alignment skills.
• Experience leading and developing a small, high-performing expert team in a player-coach environment.
• Comfort with emerging workforce intelligence, automation, low-code, AI; Power Platform knowledge is helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Leads the design and evolution of an integrated HR planning and enablement model connecting strategy, planning, prioritization, governance, execution, measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Operates as a player‑coach by personally leading complex analysis, enterprise problem solving, framework and process design, executive recommendations, decision materials, and high‑priority work products while directing and developing the team.
• Brings together business priorities, the Enterprise People Plan, HRBP plans, Centers of Excellence strategies, workforce insights, functional roadmaps, capacity realities, and enterprise requests into a clear planning and decision framework.
• Leads enterprise Workforce Architecture Governance, including standards, decision rights, and lifecycle mechanisms governing jobs, job profiles, job families, roles, skills, tasks, workforce data, and the creation, modification, consolidation, and retirement of jobs and roles.
• Establishes and continuously improves governance mechanisms, operating rhythms, decision rights, escalation paths, and prioritization processes that enable HR to operate as an aligned enterprise function.
• Leads enterprise planning, prioritization, and portfolio governance across HR, aligning resources, investments, and work to business priorities, the Enterprise People Plan, capacity, risk, and expected value.
• Guides automation and agent‑supported work design, including task and process redesign, human‑agent handoffs, controls, adoption requirements, and measurement of capacity, quality, speed, and experience outcomes.
• Partners across HR leadership, HR Business Partners, Talent, Compensation, HR Technology, Strategic Workforce Planning, Organization Effectiveness, Workforce Economics, Finance, and transformation partners to integrate planning, architecture, data, technology, and execution.
• Defines scorecards, measures, and value frameworks that show progress, operating health, workforce architecture health, decision quality, adoption, organizational effectiveness, and business impact.
• Simplifies how leaders and teams engage with planning, governance, prioritization, workforce architecture, and reporting through practical processes, tools, guidance, and decision pathways.
• Leads, coaches, and develops the Senior Manager and Analyst while ensuring every team member contributes directly to analysis, design, implementation, automation, and ongoing delivery.

Skills

Executive leadership

HR planning

Governance

Workforce architecture

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

AI-enabled design

Power Platform

Team coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Power Platform

Job description

Comcast is seeking an Executive Director of HR Planning & Enablement to shape how we plan, govern, and enable HR across the enterprise in a hands-on player-coach role. You will guide workforce architecture, data-driven decisions, and enterprise-wide HR programs while leading a small expert team.

You will partner across HR, Talent, Compensation, Technology, and Finance to align resources with the Enterprise People Plan, drive automation, and deliver measurable business impact.