Workforce Management Specialist

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Title:

Workforce Management Specialist
Classification:
Non-Exempt

Reports to:

Director, WFM
ONSITE:
Sylmar, CA (relocating in 3rd quarter of 2023 to Santa Clarita)

Job Objective:
This position acts as a liaison between operations, HR, and payroll to ensure the workforce systems are meeting or exceeding business requirements. Provide ongoing application configuration, interface, and other application technical tasks for workforce management systems. Interpreting and changing policies that require design, build, test, and deploy.

• Provides ongoing WFM systems support to ensure configurations are accurate and up to date.
• Position is responsible for maintaining knowledge base on business changes including business policy, format, and operational changes.
• The individual is responsible for ensuring WFM systems settings are current.
• Ensure accuracy of workforce systems to ensure data integrity.
• Audit the workforce management system to ensure pay rule and schedule rule accuracy.
• Perform audit of people data within workforce systems to ensure information accuracy.
• Continuous review WFS reporting to ensure data integrity.
• Auditing configuration settings through store visits and communications with store management to ensure accuracy.
• Metric High level of data integrity.
• Ensure operations are meeting business needs in a timely manner.
• Field work to pulse general end user community to ensure the system is meeting or exceeding appropriate business requirements.
• Act as the WFS liaison to HR to support and identify contract changes.
• Lead on user acceptance testing of application changes.
• Builds and maintains the application change release schedule.
• Metric System that meets business needs efficiently.
• Configure workforce management system to ensure adequate support of business.
• Configure workforce management system to properly support the labor hour and item forecasts required to drive operational effectiveness.
• Configure workforce management system to properly support the profile needs of the business.
• Ensure all end user access is configured with the appropriate level of access.
• Configure schedule rules to ensure compliance with labor laws and negotiated labor agreements.
• Configure pay rules to ensure accurate associate pay and ensure compliance with labor laws and negotiated labor agreements.
• Configure attendance policies.
• Provide adhoc data requests using SQL interface development and script execution.
• Develop and modify workforce management system reporting to ensure reporting needs are in line with store information requirements.
• Adjust configurations based on continuing business changes.
• Support the overall integrity of the application and provide recommendations on how to improve the usability of the application.
• Provide feedback to leadership on how system can be improved.
• Metric Well-designed WFM system with modifications as needed.
• Create and maintain workforce management systems.
• Build and maintain WFM systems knowledge database inclusive of store labor standard characteristics and profiles, store plan designs and calendar changes, department hours of operations, departmental service level requirements.
• Maintain contact with key business stakeholders to ensure WFM team and WFM systems are current on changes to store format, hours of operation, etc.
• Create and administer a standard process for identifying changes which impact our WFM systems, updating WFM systems with appropriate configuration settings, and communicating timeline of configuration changes to appropriate stakeholders in the business.
• Investigate / develop automation which helps to streamline the process for maintaining our WFM systems configurations.
• Look for methods to continuously improve the process and create better visibility at store and district level of current settings for our WFM and labor model inputs.
• Metric Collaboration with key business leaders to ensure needs are met.
• This position provides ongoing WFM systems support to ensure configurations are accurate and up to date.
• Framework & guidelines:
  This position follows standard guidelines and must defer to senior management to make changes.
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