Principal Strategic Workforce Planning Advisor

Job Description

Join us as a Principal Strategic Workforce Planning Advisor, where your consulting mindset and love for data come together to shape our future workforce. In this role, you'll partner closely with HR, Finance, and business leaders to turn strategy into practical, insight-driven workforce plans. With a strong foundation in position management and deep expertise in systems like Workday and Adaptive Workforce Planning, you'll guide stakeholders, strengthen governance, and ensure we have the right roles, skills, and talent to support our business today and tomorrow.

This position blends analytics, financial acumen, and consultative influence, operating at the intersection of workforce strategy, budget planning, and organizational design, while ensuring core position management processes underpin all workforce planning activities.

• Consult with HR Business Partners, Divisional Finance, and business leaders to build and maintain multi-year workforce plans that are closely aligned to business strategy, financial targets, and transformation initiatives, with rigorous position management as a core foundation.
• Share forward‑looking workforce insights with HR Centers of Excellence partners to support proactive planning across talent, learning, and other COEs.
• Utilize expert knowledge of Workday and Adaptive Workforce Planning systems to drive disciplined position management, ensuring that role requests are aligned with approved workforce plans and financial governance. Advise leaders on position strategy, system processes, and the integration of position data across platforms.
• Provide strategic advisory support on workforce scenarios, including growth, contraction, role prioritization, and skill shifts across short, mid, and long‑term horizons.
• Translate enterprise and divisional strategies into workforce implications, identifying gaps, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Partner with the People Insights team to develop and interpret forecasting models and scenario analyses to support budget planning and workforce decision‑making.
• Ensure data integrity, consistency, and alignment across Workday, Adaptive, and other financial planning tools to enable confident, system‑supported workforce decisions.
• Support leaders and HR partners through education, tools, and guidance, with a focus on building workforce planning maturity and foundational position management capabilities.
• Contribute to the evolution of workforce planning frameworks, tools, and governance, with a continuous improvement mindset toward position management and system utilization as the function matures.

• Bachelor's degree
  • 5 years of experience in a related field
  • In lieu of a degree, 7 years of experience in a related field.

• Experience with Workday (HCM, Finance) and Workday Adaptive Planning, or similar tools
• Strong knowledge of foundational position management principles and system support
• Proven ability to interpret and analyze data for workforce planning and position management

• The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community.
• Work‑life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs.
• Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance.
• Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education.
• 401k match including an annual company contribution.
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At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market‑price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets, licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs.

* Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.

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• Consulting
• HR Analytics
• HR Business
• Human Resources (HR)
• Organizational Design
• Organizational Development (OD)
• People Management
• Process Improvements
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Strategic Planning
• Workforce Planning
• Workforce Strategy