Strategic Workforce Planning - Principal

Fannie Mae • Washington, DC

20h • $175,000 - $239,000

About The Position

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with design and implementation of strategic planning, HR strategy, talent management, organizational design, or a related discipline.
• Experience in workforce planning efforts across different business divisions/corporate areas, ideally in a large, complex organization.
• Deep knowledge of various workforce planning technologies and the ability to spot trends and interpret workforce data, market dynamics, and business forecasts.
• Strong skills translating workforce analytics into clear, actionable insights that influence executive decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and make recommendations around workforce cost, capacity, and delivery tradeoff decisions in constrained environments.
• Proven success operating in regulated, risk-aware, or highly scrutinized environments (e.g., financial services, government-adjacent, healthcare, defense).
• Experience partnering directly with senior executives across different business divisions.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Financial and business acumen
• A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Strong preference for candidates with at least three years of strategic workforce planning experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead an enterprise-ready strategic workforce planning framework that enables leaders at both the enterprise and divisional levels to define, assess, and execute workforce strategies aligned to business priorities.
• Serve as a strategic partner to Human Capital Consultants and senior business leaders, assessing current and future workforce needs and co-developing plans that leverage strengths, address gaps, and mitigate risk.
• Influence and engage senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to align workforce strategies with organizational goals, ensuring buy-in for talent initiatives and long-term capability development.
• Facilitate strategic workforce planning sessions and executive working forums, aligning stakeholders around business assumptions, external labor market dynamics, and future workforce scenarios.
• Analyze internal workforce data, labor market trends, and business forecasts to identify critical capability risks, talent surpluses or shortages, and opportunities for strategic intervention.
• Partner with finance to align with the budgeting and forecasting process as well as develop and deploy resources to support leaders.
• Collaborate with internal workforce analytics teams to support planning and decision-making.
• Translate complex analyses into compelling narratives, recommendations, and executive-level materials, enabling leaders to take decisive action.
• Work across HR to incorporate workforce planning insights into talent acquisition, workforce development, talent enablement, and broader HR strategy.

Benefits

• As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees