Vice President, Workforce Strategy

spectrumhealth; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Corewell Health seeks a Vice President, Workforce Strategy to lead enterprise planning, analytics, and people strategy initiatives. This executive shapes a scalable workforce framework aligning talent investments with strategic priorities and financial goals.

Collaboration with HR, Finance, Operations, Digital Services, and IT is essential to drive data-driven decisions and workforce readiness. The role champions AI-enabled design and future workforce capabilities, guiding analytics, scenarios,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in business, healthcare administration, human resources, data analytics, workforce analytics, economics, finance, or related field.
• 12 years of relevant strategic workforce planning, workforce analytics, people analytics, HR strategy, organizational strategy, healthcare operations, finance, or consulting experience.
• 7 years of experience leading teams, developing leaders, influencing senior executives, and building enterprise capabilities.
• Developing workforce analytics strategies, KPI frameworks, dashboard requirements, executive reporting priorities, and actionable workforce insights.
• Translating complex workforce data into business insights, executive storytelling, recommendations, and measurable action plans.
• Partnering with IT, data, finance, operations, and HR teams to develop analytics products, dashboards, reporting solutions, and workforce planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development of enterprise workforce KPIs and measurement frameworks aligned to executive decision-making needs.
• Owns the enterprise workforce analytics strategy for HR, ensuring reliable data and scalable infrastructure.
• Defines and prioritizes workforce dashboard and reporting requirements with clear decision-use cases.
• Translates workforce data into clear themes, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions for leaders.
• Provides actionable recommendations based on analytics, planning scenarios, and labor market trends.
• Oversees HR dashboard development priorities and partners with IT on data integrity and platform enablement.
• Builds and leads a Workforce Strategy & Analytics Center of Excellence and fosters capability across HR and business leaders.

Skills

Workforce analytics

Executive storytelling

KPI development

Data-driven decision-making

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in business / healthcare administration / human resources / data analytics

12 years of strategic workforce planning / analytics experience

7 years of leadership with senior executives and enterprise capabilities

Job description

Job Summary

The Vice President, Workforce Strategy provides enterprise leadership for workforce planning, workforce analytics, workforce transformation, and people strategy initiatives across Corewell Health. This leader develops and advances a scalable workforce strategy that aligns talent investments, workforce capabilities, labor supply, and organizational capacity with the system's strategic, operational, and financial priorities.

The Vice President leads the workforce analytics strategy, including KPI development, workforce insights, executive reporting, and strategic decision support. Through partnerships with HR, Finance, Operations, Digital Services, and Information Technology, this role translates complex workforce data into actionable recommendations that improve workforce readiness, productivity, retention, and organizational performance.

This leader serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership and drives innovation in workforce design, workforce optimization, AI-enabled work, automation strategy, and future workforce capabilities to ensure Corewell Health maintains a resilient, agile, and future-ready workforce.

Essential Functions

• Leads the development of enterprise workforce KPIs and measurement frameworks that connect workforce performance, capacity, productivity, retention, skills, labor cost, workforce readiness, and team member experience to operational and financial outcomes. Ensures KPIs are actionable, consistently defined, and aligned to executive decision-making needs.
• Owns the enterprise workforce analytics strategy for HR, including the vision, roadmap, governance, KPI framework, dashboard requirements, reporting priorities, and workforce insight agenda. Partners with IT and enterprise data teams to ensure analytics products are enabled by reliable data and scalable infrastructure, while HR owns the business requirements, interpretation, storytelling, recommendations, and adoption of workforce insights.
• Defines and prioritizes workforce dashboard and reporting requirements based on enterprise strategy, leader needs, and business value. Establishes reporting priorities, standard definitions, and decision-use cases to ensure dashboards and reports provide meaningful insight rather than static data.
• Leads workforce insights and storytelling for executive and operational audiences by translating complex workforce data into clear themes, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions. Ensures insights are timely, practical, and connected to business decisions, workforce planning, and measurable outcomes.
• Provides actionable recommendations to HR, Finance, Operations, and executive leaders based on workforce analytics, workforce planning, scenario modeling, and external labor market trends. Identifies workforce risks, capacity gaps, productivity opportunities, and investment trade-offs that support system priorities.
• Oversees HR-owned report and dashboard development priorities, including requirements gathering, design input, user acceptance, adoption, and continuous improvement. Partners with IT on technical build, data integrity, and platform enablement while ensuring solutions meet HR and business decision-making needs.
• Builds and leads a Workforce Strategy & Analytics Center of Excellence, establishing standardized processes, tools, governance, and change management practices to embed data-driven workforce decision-making across the enterprise. Develops capability among HR and business leaders in workforce analytics, insight interpretation, scenario planning, and action planning.
• Partners with executive leadership to incorporate workforce implications into enterprise strategic planning, growth initiatives, mergers, service line expansion, and operational transformation efforts.
• Leads workforce transformation initiatives that redesign roles, team structures, and workforce models to improve organizational effectiveness, productivity, and workforce sustainability.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in business, healthcare administration, human resources, data analytics, workforce analytics, industrial/organizational psychology, economics, finance, or related field
• 12 years of relevant strategic workforce planning, workforce analytics, people analytics, HR strategy, organizational strategy, healthcare operations, finance, or consulting experience
• 7 years of relevant experience leading teams, developing leaders, influencing senior executives, and building enterprise capabilities
• Developing workforce analytics strategies, KPI frameworks, dashboard requirements, executive reporting priorities, and actionable workforce insights
• Translating complex workforce data into business insights, executive storytelling, recommendations, and measurable action plans
• Partnering with IT, data, finance, operations, and HR teams to develop analytics products, dashboards, reporting solutions, and workforce planning tools

Preferred

• Master's Degree in business, healthcare administration, hu