Senior Strategic Workforce Planner

Description -

The organization: Global Workforce Strategy and Planning

We attribute our business success to the expertise, passion, and commitment of our people.  Our goal in HP People Organization (PO) is to further this success by enabling a total employee experience that drives business results, inspires our workforce, and creates a competitive advantage for our company

The Global Workforce Strategy and Planning team is part of HP’s amazing PO Function.  As a Center of Excellence, we strive for operational excellence in workforce strategies and planning processes that help our business and HR leaders plan their workforce.  We partner with all organizations across HP in developing labor strategies, and global workforce plans, that underpin and enable business transformation strategies.

The role:  Senior Strategic Workforce Planner

Global Workforce Strategy and Planning is looking for a Senior Strategic Workforce Planner to join the team.  We leverage data and business acumen to formulate insights and perspectives that influence labor strategies and workforce plans.  We work closely with People Organization, Finance, Strategy, and most importantly our various businesses as we strategize and optimize how we configure the workforce for the future.  This role requires an accomplished professional with experience at the Global Corporate level who can collaborate within the PO function, and across business and functional groups, to drive strategic planning operational excellence in our Workforce Planning processes.  The ideal candidate is excited about being part of our team’s mission, and using internal and external data analytics, modeling, and consulting skills to provide innovative solutions and insights that enable informed workforce decisions.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Collaborates with Senior Leaders across the company (business, PO, Finance, etc.) in shaping labor strategies, , hiring demand signals, workforce location strategies and budget aligned workforce plans
• Leads the development of global workforce plans, including types of roles and skills-based, by incorporating business strategies, financial goals, and human capital requirements
• Builds content for presentations to HR and business executives to drive critical decision making
• Ensures that appropriate process controls and visibility mechanisms are in place to support the execution of workforce plans; Drives appropriate interventions with the business to mitigate plan risks
• Utilizes research, tools and analyses required to achieve objectives for large, complex strategic workforce initiatives
• Performs analyses and interpretation/evaluation of workforce information (internal and external) and metrics to deliver data driven insights and/or strategic recommendations
• Contributes to diagnostic and reactive workforce planning activities to address ad hoc business issues or inquiries
• Applies data automation and process standardization to ongoing work activities.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Strong strategic and analytical thinker able to structure, and independently drive, strategic workforce programs in collaboration with HR executives and business executives
• Superior business and financial acumen
• Strong relationship management skills, including proactive partnering and consulting, with proven ability to collaborate with and achieve results through others
• Ability to independently draft and present executive level deliverables and strategic recommendations
• Ability to create, curate and analyze large data sets
• Ability to utilize analytical tools and techniques to develop creative approaches and new insights to business issues
• Very strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation, executive messaging, and influence
• Ability to handle ambiguity and change, as well as balance multiple priorities
• Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly, and independently manage complex project objectives
• Be a thought leader that actively contributes ideas to help customers, partners, leaders, and peers think outside of the box

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in a field such as: Business, Engineering, Quantitative methods, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Human Capital, Economics, Market Research
• Preference for MBA or advanced university degree in business
• 10+ years of experience leading projects and initiatives in strategy, management consulting, industry research, business operations, financial planning, or quantitative analytics, preferably in a workforce planning or strategic HR role
• Preferably 5+ years of work experience in business planning and strategy at a Global/Corporate/Function Level, or in a top-tier management consulting firm
• Extensive experience with data automation, process automation and workforce data analysis
• High preference for someone with experience using analytic, business intelligence, and/or data mining tools such as Microsoft PowerBI
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel (template & forecast generation, macros, charts) and PowerPoint
• Strong communications, program/project management and people management skills

The base pay range for this role is $115,850 to $168,000 annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to US candidates only).  Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including; 
  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Job -

Human Resources

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -

25%

Relocation -

No

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) - 

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