Strategic Workforce Planning Manager

Best Buy•Richfield, MN

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

As the Strategic Workforce Planning Manager, you will build and refine workforce models, analyze complex data, and develop scenarios that help leaders understand risks, trade offs, and future workforce needs. You’ll translate that analysis into clear, executive-ready insights while navigating an environment that’s often ambiguous and evolving. A successful candidate brings strong analytical thinking, comfort with imperfect data, and the ability to simplify complexity for senior audiences. You’ll also play a key role in improving planning tools and processes, partnering across HR and the business to keep everything aligned. What makes this role exciting is the chance to influence enterprise-level decisions without needing direct ownership of strategy. If you enjoy solving big, forward-looking workforce questions and shaping how an organization plans for the future, this role will feel energizing. This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

Requirements

3 or more years of experience in strategic workforce planning, workforce analytics, or scenario-based analysis (workforce, financial, operational, or strategic).
Experience supporting organizational design efforts by helping define roles, clarify reporting structures, and document current and future team setups.
Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving ability, including working through ambiguous questions using incomplete or imperfect data.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in IO Psychology, Statistics, Data Science, Economics or related field.
Experience supporting strategic workforce planning in a large or complex organization.
Experience with reporting, analytics or org visualization tools (e.g., Orgvue, Power Bi, Workday).
Background in Organizational Effectiveness, Talent Management, or Strategy Consulting.
Experience process mapping to clarify workflows, roles, and decision points.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain workforce models and scenarios that guide executive decision-making and recommend actions across cost, capacity, capability, and future operating models.
Support organizational design efforts by mapping and documenting workflows, roles, and decision points, while assisting with role clarity, reporting structures, and future-state org models to improve alignment and efficiency.
Create executive-ready summaries, visualizations, and presentations that clearly communicate key findings, risks, and trade-offs.
Improve SWP tools and processes by documenting current-state practices and contributing to future-state design.
Partner with cross-functional teams to manage planning cycles and ensure data inputs, assumptions, and methodologies are aligned.
Ensure data accuracy and governance standards are met while continuously building expertise in workforce analytics and planning methodologies.