Senior Program Manager, Workforce Planning

<p><i>KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry: our job is to make the </i><i>world’s cities better places to live. At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization, which add value to the life cycle of any building.</i> </p><p></p><p></p><p><i>KONE People &amp; Communications team enables business performance and competitiveness through engaged and capable people, strong reputation management, impactful internal and external communications and great employee experiences. We bring KONE’s strategy to life, supporting competence, capability and culture development as well as strengthening the KONE purpose and company story for all our stakeholders. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work across a diverse range of topics, while also working closely with our businesses, to help drive the People and Communications agenda.</i></p><p></p><p></p><p>We are looking for a</p><p></p><p><b>Senior Program Manager, Workforce Planning</b></p><p></p><p>to drive our enterprise-wide Workforce Planning initiative.</p><p></p><p></p><p>To align with KONE’s ‘Rise to Lead’ strategy and enable its success, we have recently launched the People &amp; Communications (P&amp;C) Direction 2025–2030. One of the key priorities under this direction is to build the right people capabilities and skills to support business growth and profitability.</p><p></p><p>This role is a great opportunity for you to utilize your experience and to drive one of the key strategic initiatives.</p><p></p><p>This role reports to the Senior Vice President People &amp; Communication, Global Functions &amp; Organizational Effectiveness.</p><p></p><p>The preferred location of the position is Espoo, Finland or one of KONE main Frontline offices.</p><p></p><p></p><p><b>Responsibilities and key activities:</b></p><p></p><ul><li><p>Holistic program mgmt. for KONE-wide Workforce Planning initiative targeted at building a seamless, integrated capability and working practice to match demand &amp; supply of talent for better business decision-making</p></li><li><p>Gathering internal and external insights of what good looks like and being able to define what good looks like in 2030 with the team</p></li><li><p>Specifying, agreeing and leading a few internal pilots to gather insights and learn, delivering best practices and identifying gaps for the next phases of the program</p></li><li><p>Concepting Workforce Planning journey for KONE including dependencies, roles, KPIs and other relevant leavers</p></li><li><p>Building a clear program structure with phasing, sub-project definitions, resourcing, governance etc. and holistically running the program by ensuring the agreed deliverables 2026-2030</p></li><li><p>Actively communicating with business stakeholders, Finance, People &amp; Communications and other relevant parties to co-create joined understanding and commitment</p></li><li><p>Collaborating through the existing operational organization to create a sustainable and scalable model for workforce planning at KONE.</p></li></ul><p></p><p></p><p><b>Required skills and competences:</b></p><p></p><ul><li><p>Demonstrated track record of program management in a global, multi-country environment</p></li><li><p>Unit HR or relevant experience of understanding different HR expertise areas and people domains, including talent acquisition, learning &amp; development and succession planning</p></li><li><p>Ability to create change stories in fluent English and being able to communicate with engaged and simple messaging</p></li><li><p>Holistic understanding of corporate processes of sales &amp; ops. planning, sales, supply chain, finance and HR</p></li><li><p>Analytical and strategic thinking to interpret data and to build scenarios based on the data</p></li><li><p>Courage to think beyond what is with multiple AI options in the future</p></li><li><p>Proficiency in workforce analytics and technologies, including AI driven solutions</p></li><li><p>Curiosity and a growth mindset to navigate the KONE landscape</p></li><li><p>Business acumen to be able to align workforce planning with business goals</p></li><li><p>Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills to enable impact.</p></li></ul><p></p><p></p><p><b>What we offer:</b> </p><ul><li><p>Great career and growth opportunities</p></li><li><p>Chance to be part an integral part of our global business organization and be part of developing our ways of working and to be part of driving our P&amp;C development</p></li><li><p>An environment where our managers and employees truly value your contributions as P&amp;C and have a positive outlook on this support</p></li><li><p>Community of highly professional P&amp;C colleagues that value your contribution and are always ready to support you.</p></li></ul><p></p><