Senior Analyst, Strategic Workforce Planning

Senior Analyst, Strategic Workforce Planning

Work location:

Newport Beach, CA. Office‑based role, minimum four days per week on‑site.

• Build, maintain, and enhance strategic workforce planning models, forecasts, and scenario analyses that inform decisions on future headcount, skills, and location.
• Translate complex workforce analysis into clear, executive‑ready insights, recommendations, and materials that support business decision‑making.
• Contribute to people analytics across the employee lifecycle, partnering with the People Analytics team to deliver consistent, trusted insight.
• Independently lead smaller strategic workforce planning engagements, including facilitating stakeholder interviews and workshops.
• Conduct forward‑looking analysis on internal workforce trends, external labor‑market dynamics, and emerging technologies (including AI) to inform workforce supply and demand.
• Maintain ongoing competitor and market intelligence, tracking organizational structures, locations, workforce size, and hiring trends to provide external context.
• Partner with HR Business Partners, Finance (FP&A), and People Analytics to align workforce insights with business and financial planning cycles.
• Maintain strong data quality, documentation, metric definitions, and repeatable processes so that planning and analytics outputs are consistent, reliable, and aligned with People Analytics standards.

• 5+ years’ experience in a data‑rich, analytical role – e.g., people analytics, strategic workforce planning, finance, strategy, or human capital consulting / workforce transformation – with a clear track record of growth and increasing responsibility.
• Comfortable facilitating stakeholder interviews and workshops as part of strategic workforce planning projects.
• Strong analytical capability, with advanced Excel and hands‑on experience building models, forecasts, and scenarios.
• Proficiency with data preparation, analysis, and visualization tools such as SQL, Alteryx, and Power BI, with the ability to quickly learn new platforms and work with complex HR/workforce data.
• Confidence working with messy or incomplete data – cleaning, validating, and turning it into clear, reliable insight.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, explaining technical analysis to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and project‑management skills, managing multiple priorities and varying workload to deadline.
• Aspiration to grow into broader workforce planning and people analytics responsibility over time.

• Direct experience in strategic workforce planning and with planning platforms such as Workday Adaptive Planning, Orgvue, Visier, or Oracle Strategic Workforce Planning.
• Experience working with Workday or other HRIS data, including position, supervisory organization, job, location, headcount, and worker data.
• Experience supporting analytics in a large, complex, or global organization.
• Exposure to labor‑market analysis, future‑of‑work trends, skills‑based planning, or strategic talent initiatives.
• Experience producing analyses or forecasts that have informed real workforce, talent, or financial decisions.
• Familiarity with matrixed organizations and partnering across HR, Finance, and the business.
• Professional certification or advanced education in a relevant field (e.g., analytics, data science, HR, strategic workforce planning, organizational development, economics, or statistics).
• Knowledge of Life Insurance or broader Financial Services industry.

Base Pay Range: $ - $. Additional incentive pay available. Benefits begin on Day 1.

Health and well‑being:
Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account for employee and eligible dependents.

Paid time off:
Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, Financial Planning Time Off. Paid parental leave and an Adoption Assistance Program.

Retirement:
Competitive 401(k) savings plan with company match and additional contribution regardless of participation.

Pacific Life Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Human Resources Representative at Pacific Life Insurance Company.