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Workforce Strategy and Planning Lead, Senior Manager
Talent Human Resources Posted: 08-Aug-2025
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Work you'll do
Professionals currently in a Deloitte Global role may be considered for this position, regardless of their US location.
The Global Workforce Strategy & Planning CoE, Senior Manager, leads the development and execution of global (DTTL) workforce strategies for a small portfolio of complex businesses (between 5-8) that align with our business objectives. This role proactively influences the global talent strategy, anticipating future talent needs, and developing innovative solutions to address emerging challenges and opportunities. An essential part of this role is to develop and implement workforce plans, demand forecast, and scenario plan whilst navigating complex market and geopolitical factors to ensure the organization’s long-term talent advantage. Finally, this role requires extensive collaboration across the global organization, including senior and c-suite leadership, to ensure alignment and successful implementation of ambitious and innovative workforce plans.
This role is essential to DTTL’s long-term success and is expected to evolve by emphasizing skills-based workforce planning, AI integration, advanced analytics, and succession planning to ensure continued leadership in this specialized area.
The Global Workforce Strategy & Planning COE, Senior Manager, is responsible to:
- Develop and lead strategy and planning for a portfolio of our complex and large Global businesses (between 5-8), influencing workforce decisions impacting 1,000’s of professionals from Analyst to Partner.
- Drive the development and implementation of complex workforce plans, demand forecasting, and scenario planning to support our organizational talent strategy.
- Advise senior leaders and business units on current and future strategic talent decisions, ensuring alignment with operating model commitments and our businesses/DTTL organizational objectives.
- Providing mentorship and upskilling to deliver workforce plans, hiring advisory, demand forecasting, scenario planning, and strategic advisory services to the broader Workforce Strategy & Planning team and wider People & Operations function.
- Conduct advanced workforce analyses and modeling to support cost optimization and benefits realization from global initiatives, while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Lead functional projects to innovate and evolve the CoE Service Offering and Technology, particularly the development of our technology infrastructure into multi-year forecasting tools.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, best practices, and regulatory changes impacting workforce planning.
The team
The Global (DTTL) People team supports our talented, forward-thinking professionals with a broad range of development, well-being, and engagement programs to enhance their professional and personal journeys. We provide top-notch, leading-edge thinking and advisory support and partner with our businesses to ensure our professionals develop the right skills and talents to deliver on ambitious priorities.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in workforce strategy (having experience creating with a time horizon of 3yr+), planning, and analytics within a complex, global organization
- Advanced analytical and modeling expertise, including scenario planning, demand forecasting, and proficiency with workforce analytics tools (e.g., Visier)
- Excellent stakeholder management and advisory skills with senior and C-suite executives
- Proven ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement in workforce planning processes
- Strong communication and presentation skills, able to convey complex information clearly
Desirable Qualifications:
- Strong leadership and team development skills
- Certification in workforce planning, data science, or people analytics
- Experience leading technical capabilities such as scenario forecasting or data science
- Demonstrated success building complex, long-term workforce plans for large, matrixed organizations (10,000+ employees)
- Knowledge of Deloitte or similarly complex multinational organizations (e.g., professional or financial services)
- Advanced level of experience partnering with Finance to align workforce and financial plans
- Intermediate level of familiarity with Agile methodology, project management, and knowledge of GCCs (Global Capability Centres) or DCs (Delivery Centres)
Our culture
At Deloitte Global people are valued and respected for who they are – with opportunities to bring their unique perspectives, talents and passions to business challenges. Our global workspace creates room for individuality and collaboration. Ours is an inclusive, supportive, connected culture with a focus on development, flexibility, and well-being. This culture makes Deloitte Global one of the most rewarding places to work, and to transform your career.
Professional development
From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe in investing in you, helping you identify and hone your unique strengths at every step of your career. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities, and connect and grow through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.
Benefits
At Deloitte, we value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Our Total Rewards program reflects our continued commitment to lead from the front in everything we do—that’s why we take pride in offering a comprehensive variety of programs and resources to support your health and well-being.
Recruiting for this role ends on November 1, 2025.
At Deloitte Global, we know we’re at our best when we look out for one another; prioritize respect, fairness, development and wellbeing; foster an inclusive culture and embrace diversity in all forms. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of their background, experience, identity, ability or thinking style, and if you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process for accessibility reasons this is available upon request. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.
November 1, 2025