Senior Manager, Strategic Workforce Planning and Analytics

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What will you do?

A Day in the life of a Sr Manager, Strategic Workforce Planning & Analytics at VF looks like this.

You will support Human Resources and other Corporate Functions by providing effective strategic workforce planning along with insights to drive business decisions. The Sr Manager will aggregate large amounts of data to generate people-related insights that drive tangible actions and business results. The Sr Manager will play an integral role in the development and growth of our people analytics & workforce planning team.

You will be responsible for all aspects of managing strategic workforce planning & advanced analytics programs and data visualizations from conception through business integration. This includes gathering stakeholder input from program design to execution/integration, supporting data-architecture development, effective planning, excellent communication between stakeholders and internal/external partners, ongoing program assessment and guidance. He/she will be responsible for the assessment of business requirements, driving technical discussion and the subsequent development of technology/analytic solutions. He/she will also be a partner in developing VF’s workforce analytics roadmap and future program design. He/she will be accountable for consulting with organizations within VF to assess and address advanced analytics needs.

What do you need to succeed? 

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you’ll need to succeed and excel. Additionally, while formal education in a related field is great to have, we are most interested in your 6+ years of experience and professional achievements.  The ideal candidate must have an inherent passion for data and data driven thinking and be adept at extracting patterns from volumes of data to drive strategy and operational efficiencies.

The foundation skills you will need in this position are: 

• The Sr Manager of Strategic Workforce Planning and Analytics is accountable for providing direction over workforce planning, future headcount forecasts, and analysis.
• In partnership with finance, coordinate the annual global workforce planning process along with facilitating quarterly forecasts.
• Perform workforce planning analytics using data gathered from planning systems and external benchmark datasets.
• Conduct strategic mapping exercise and talent gap assessments to determine current/future talent needs through labor market assessments with a focus on the overall talent availability.
• Responsible for the coordination and execution of forecasting/capacity plan meetings and consultation with global site leaders and regional finance teams.
• Develops and analyzes reports and dashboard to track global headcount planning.
• Coordinates forecasts and capacity planning to the annual plan along with managing the overall annual planning cycle.
• Communicates to senior business leaders any adjustments to workforce requirements based on updates to the forecasts.
• Organize and lead the aggregation of large amounts of data, build analytic models and tools, and perform strategic analysis (e.g. descriptive statistics, segmentation, trend analysis, forecasting, regression analysis etc.)
• Manage the development of advanced data visualization solutions to cater to the needs of the business and target audience.