Sr Principal Workforce Planning Consultant
About The Position
The Sr Principal Workforce Planning Consultant will build and lead UKG’s enterprise workforce planning capability. The role owns the workforce planning cycle, develops advanced models and insights, and advises senior leaders on workforce decisions related to headcount, hiring capacity, location strategy, and talent supply. It is a hands-on technical leadership position requiring sound business and consulting judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to turn complex data into clear direction. The consultant partners across Finance, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, People Analytics, and business leadership to establish scalable planning processes, improve models and governance, and support evidence-based decisions. The role also develops workforce planning capability across HR and the business through tools, guidance, training, automation, and organizational design support.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of progressive experience in workforce planning, People Analytics, finance, business planning, data science, or a related field.
- Track record of building or transforming an enterprise workforce planning capability in a large, complex, or matrixed organization.
- Ability to work independently with limited direction and navigate ambiguity.
- Deep expertise in workforce planning, forecasting, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and model validation.
- Advanced, hands-on ability to code and build analytical models.
- Advanced proficiency with Power BI, Power Automate, Excel, Anaplan, SQL, Python, R, UKG Pro, IBM Planning Analytics, or comparable platforms.
- Experience integrating complex workforce, financial, recruiting, and labor-market data, with strong data quality, documentation, and control practices.
- Exceptional business and financial acumen, consulting skills, and executive communication, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant quantitative or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in a relevant quantitative field.
- Experience owning enterprise workforce planning and shaping headcount, location, or capacity decisions.
- Experience using external labor-market intelligence, AI, and automation to elevate workforce planning and decision support.
Responsibilities
- Lead monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range workforce planning in partnership with Finance, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, People Analytics, and business leaders.
- Build a scalable enterprise workforce planning process and advance its models, tools, data, governance, and planning standards.
- Design, code, validate, and maintain workforce demand, supply, capacity, cost, skills, attrition, hiring, and internal-movement models and scenarios.
- Integrate workforce, financial, recruiting, skills, and external labor-market data to identify risks, opportunities, and trade-offs.
- Translate business strategy into evidence-based recommendations on headcount, workforce investments, hiring capacity, restructuring, location strategy, and talent deployment.
- Advise senior leaders, navigate uncertainty, and translate complex analysis into clear decisions and action.
- Lead location and labor-market analyses and partner with Talent Acquisition on recruiting capacity, sourcing, and build-buy-borrow strategies.
- Track plans against results, assess model performance, and help leaders adapt to changing business conditions.
- Improve and automate planning, modeling, workflows, and reporting using Power Automate, AI, and other technologies.
- Build workforce planning capability across HR and the business through practical tools, guidance, training, and targeted organizational design support.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus plan eligibility
- Restricted stock unit awards may be provided as part of total compensation
- UKG benefits and rewards are referenced, but specific benefits are not listed in the posting
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
