Workforce Insights & Strategy Program Director

Job Description:

• Establish and advance Banner Health's workforce intelligence capability
• Analyze workforce trends, internal workforce data, external labor market intelligence, and industry trends to identify strategic risks and opportunities
• Develop workforce forecasting and scenario-planning methodologies
• Lead workforce supply and demand analyses across critical roles, functions, service lines, and geographies
• Identify risks related to turnover, retirement exposure, talent shortages, succession readiness, and future skill requirements
• Leverage enterprise skills data, career architecture, and talent insights for workforce forecasting and capability assessments
• Support Banner's strategic workforce planning framework
• Translate enterprise strategy, growth initiatives, and business priorities into workforce implications and capability requirements
• Recommend build, buy, borrow, or automate workforce strategies
• Facilitate workforce planning discussions with business leaders and HR stakeholders
• Conduct talent gap assessments and workforce readiness evaluations
• Define workforce questions and design analytical approaches to answer them
• Analyze workforce investments and quantify people return on investment
• Create executive-ready workforce insights, presentations, scorecards, and recommendations
• Serve as a workforce intelligence consultant and thought partner to senior leaders
• Assess and leverage workforce planning and business intelligence technologies, including Workday, Power BI, SQL, and Tableau
• Partner with HR Technology, Talent Management, Finance, Strategy, Service Lines, and HR leaders
• Support workforce governance and strategic planning processes
• Establish relationships with external workforce and education partners

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Analytics, Finance, Economics, Healthcare Administration, Organizational Development, Data Science, or related field
• Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in workforce planning, workforce analytics, people analytics, HR strategy, management consulting, business intelligence, organizational effectiveness, or related disciplines
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex organizational or workforce data and translate findings into business recommendations
• Experience presenting strategic recommendations to senior leadership
• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions across multiple stakeholder groups
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with changing needs and deadlines
• Master's degree in Business Administration, Analytics, Economics, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Public Health, or related field preferred
• Healthcare industry experience preferred
• Experience with strategic workforce planning methodologies preferred
• Experience working with large-scale workforce datasets and business intelligence tools such as Workday, Power BI, or SQL preferred
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred

Benefits:

• Full-time, salaried position
• Day shift, Monday–Friday standard business hours
• Total rewards package