Strategic Workforce Planning Lead: Programs & Enablement

Mississippi Power Co; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Company is seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning Program Manager to lead the launch and ongoing execution of the workforce planning function. You will coordinate cross‑functional partners, define business requirements, support tool evaluations, pilots, and adoption of planning processes.

This collaborative role translates workforce insights into actionable decisions, builds structured plans and governance, and drives training, communications, and sustainment across HR, analytics,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Project Management, Information Systems, Analytics, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3-5+ years of experience in program development, program management, HR, analytics, learning and development, or a related field.
• Demonstrated program and project management capability (planning, dependency management, meeting facilitation, action tracking, status reporting).
• Experience coordinating cross-functional work involving HR, analytics, technology, and/or finance partners.
• Experience supporting requirements development and implementation planning.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to produce clear, partner-friendly materials and executive-ready updates.
• Experience preparing concise updates, recommendations, and decision materials for leadership.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to coordinate across multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, dependencies, and milestone tracking across Strategic Workforce Planning workstreams.
• Establish operating cadence for planning routines, governance checkpoints, and status updates.
• Manage routine governance deliverables, including action tracking and concise stakeholder updates.
• Prepare decision materials that summarize options, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and next steps.
• Facilitate working sessions, capture decisions, drive follow-ups, and elevate issues as needed.
• Partner with Workforce Intelligence to support tool evaluations, criteria, scorecards, and demos.
• Coordinate vendor touchpoints and produce comparison summaries.
• Document workforce planning options and tradeoffs, including implementation considerations and risks.
• Define business requirements for dashboards, datasets, and workflow needs.
• Support implementation planning, including scope, resources, roadmap, training inputs, and readiness criteria.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing and translate feedback into backlog items.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

HR analytics

Requirements gathering

Training & enablement

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/PM/Analytics

Tools

Teams/SharePoint

Planner/Project/Smartsheet

Job description

Southern Company is seeking a Strategic Workforce Planning Program Manager to lead the launch and ongoing execution of the workforce planning function. You will coordinate cross‑functional partners, define business requirements, support tool evaluations, pilots, and adoption of planning processes.

This collaborative role translates workforce insights into actionable decisions, builds structured plans and governance, and drives training, communications, and sustainment across HR, analytics,