Strategic Workforce Planning Leader

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard seeks an experienced workforce planning leader in the United States to hire, evaluate, and supervise crews while developing and refining enterprise workforce plans. You will lead analytics-driven strategies, build tools, and provide expert consultations to align talent with growth and capability needs.

The role emphasizes cross-functional consulting, data interpretation, and supervisory responsibilities, with a focus on strategic workforce planning and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years related work experience
• Three years of workforce planning, consulting, or data analysis and reporting experience
• Supervisory experience preferred
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
• Graduate degree preferred
• Expertise in workforce strategy, analytics, scenario modeling, and strategic talent planning
• Proficient in data interpretation, consulting engagements, workforce management tools, and translating business strategies into actionable workforce plans
• Must not require visa sponsorship; Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position

Responsibilities

• Hire, evaluate, and supervise crew
• Provide guidance and training to develop crew
• Set performance standards, review performance, and make compensation decisions in accordance with Human Resources policies and procedures
• Lead workforce planning strategy using workforce analytics, human capital best practices, and business strategy
• Direct development and maintenance of workforce planning tools and templates
• Review, refine, and consolidate divisional workforce plans into an enterprise view
• Direct enterprise, divisional, and regional business consulting engagements and planning efforts
• Deploy support for workforce planning engagements based on business demand and resources
• Serve as a subject matter expert and provide advanced consultations on workforce planning
• Collaborate with human resources partners to identify workforce planning opportunities, critical workforce segments, talent requirements, and new talent sources
• Create and maintain analytic capabilities for workforce planning consulting and reporting
• Build understanding of external macro-economic and human capital data
• Liaise with shared service partners to support human capital decisions
• Maintain expert understanding of workforce management tools, techniques, strategies, and practices
• Surface trends and implement changes to develop comprehensive workforce planning capability
• Conduct predictive modeling and what-if scenario planning
• Analyze future workforce needs against internal talent supply and external labor markets
• Design and refine workforce plans and supporting talent strategies aligned with organizational growth and capability needs
• Participate in special projects and perform other assigned duties

Skills

Workforce Analytics

Data Interpretation

Consulting Engagements

Workforce Strategy

Predictive Modeling

Talent Planning

Supervisory Experience

Collaboration

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

Workforce Planning Tools

Analytic Capabilities

Job description

Vanguard seeks an experienced workforce planning leader in the United States to hire, evaluate, and supervise crews while developing and refining enterprise workforce plans. You will lead analytics-driven strategies, build tools, and provide expert consultations to align talent with growth and capability needs.

The role emphasizes cross-functional consulting, data interpretation, and supervisory responsibilities, with a focus on strategic workforce planning and business outcomes.