Strategic Workforce Planning Manager

Strategic Workforce Planning Manager

Providing for loved ones, planning rewarding retirements, saving enough for whatever lies ahead our policyholders count on us to be there when it matters most. It's a big ask, but it's one that we have the power to deliver when we work together. We collaborate and innovate pushing one another to transform not just Pacific Life, but the entire industry for the better. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. Pacific Life is more than a job, it's a career with purpose. It's a career where you have the support, balance, and resources to make a positive impact on the future, including your own.

We're actively seeking a talented Strategic Workforce Planning Manager to join our People Experience (PX) team in Newport Beach, CA reporting to the Director, Workforce Planning.

This is a new position for Pacific Life, focused on establishing and embedding the discipline of Strategic Workforce Planning, including the frameworks, processes, and governance needed to forecast, plan, and optimize our future workforce. The role will also, from time to time, provide HR analytics services to the broader HR team, leveraging workforce data to identify trends, generate insights, and inform strategic decision-making. This dual remit reflects Pacific Life's future People Intelligence model, where SWP and People Analytics are integrated to deliver enterprise insights.

How you'll help move us forward :

• Support the delivery of strategic workforce planning and people analytics projects across North America, Europe, and APAC, working closely with the Director of Workforce Planning to ensure plans align with enterprise business priorities and long-term talent strategies, and collaborating with the Director of People Analytics on analytics initiatives.
• Partner with HR Business Partners, business leaders, and People Analytics to gather and interpret workforce data, translating insights into future-state headcount, skills, and location plans.
• Lead smaller-scale workforce planning projects or workstreams independently, including developing timelines, coordinating stakeholders, and delivering agreed outputs.
• Conduct forward-looking analysis on internal workforce trends, external labor market shifts, and emerging technologies to inform workforce supply / demand forecasts and scenario models.
• Collaborate with Finance (FP&A) to align strategic workforce planning with operational planning cycles.
• Develop and maintain workforce planning models, tools, and templates to enable business leaders to model workforce scenarios and assess strategic options.
• Partner with People Analytics to deliver insights across the employee lifecycleincluding talent acquisition, onboarding, internal mobility, demographics, attrition, workforce composition and hybrid effectiveness, learning and development, organization design, succession planning, and talent pipeline analyticswhile also measuring HR operations, program effectiveness, and organizational health.
• Act as a connector between Workforce Planning and People Analytics, ensuring forecasts, insights, and workforce data inform both future planning and day-to-day HR decision-making.

The experience you bring :

What makes you stand out :

Base Pay Range : $134,280.00 - $164,120.00

Your Benefits Start Day 1

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