Workforce Planning Data Analyst

Strategic Workforce Planning Analyst Fully Remote | Contract-to-Hire | Compensation Range: $65,000–$91,000 base, depending on geography, plus bonus potential up to $5,000 Position Overview We are seeking a highly analytical Strategic Workforce Planning Analyst to support a major workforce planning initiative within a large healthcare operations environment. This role will help build the tools, models, and reporting structure needed to better understand current headcount, future staffing needs, skill gaps, training investment, and long-term workforce demand. This is a highly visible opportunity for someone who enjoys working hands-on with data, building models from the ground up, and helping leaders make better decisions through clear workforce insights. The organization is moving from a historically reactive hiring model toward a more proactive, data-driven workforce planning strategy through 2028 and beyond. The ideal candidate will be strong in Excel, comfortable consolidating and manipulating large data sets, and able to work through ambiguity while new processes and tools are being created. Tableau, workforce planning, forecasting, healthcare, revenue operations, or HR analytics experience would be a plus.

What You Will Do

This role will focus heavily on workforce analytics, forecasting, reporting, and model development. Key responsibilities may include:

• Build and maintain workforce planning tools to capture current headcount, projected hiring needs, skill gaps, role demand, and future staffing scenarios.
• Consolidate people-related data from multiple leaders, reports, and systems into usable models and dashboards.
• Support workforce forecasting across a population of approximately 2,000 teammates.
• Analyze current and future role needs as automation, technology improvements, and process changes impact entry-level and operational roles.
• Help identify where the organization may need fewer roles, different skill sets, more project-based talent, or more tech-enabled teammates over time.
• Create Excel-based models for headcount planning, workforce supply and demand, skill gap analysis, capacity planning, and future talent needs.
• Support reporting around professional development and training investment, including metrics such as average learning hours and participation in learning programs.
• Pull, organize, and interpret workforce data from internal systems and reports.
• Develop more efficient ways to collect, organize, and present workforce planning data to leadership.
• Partner with operations and lane leaders to gather workforce inputs, validate assumptions, and translate business needs into useful analysis.
• Help create repeatable reporting processes where workforce planning data is currently fragmented or manually maintained.
• Support ad hoc analysis tied to workforce health, hiring demand, training, mobility, and organizational planning.
• Translate complex data into clear findings that help leadership make informed staffing, training, and organizational decisions.

What We Are Looking For We are looking for someone who is truly hands-on with data, not just someone who has managed projects around reporting. The right person should enjoy manipulating data, building models, improving messy processes, and creating structure where it does not fully exist yet. Strong candidates will bring:

• 1–5 years of experience in workforce planning, HR analytics, business analytics, financial modeling, operations analytics, or a similar analytical role.
• Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to work with large data sets, formulas, lookups, pivot tables, modeling, and data consolidation.
• Ability to create forecasting models, planning tools, and reporting templates from scratch or improve existing ones.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work through unclear or evolving requirements.
• Comfort working with people data, headcount reports, staffing plans, training data, or operational workforce metrics.
• Ability to identify trends, gaps, risks, and opportunities within workforce data.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to validate data accuracy across multiple sources.
• Ability to communicate findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Tableau experience is preferred but not required.
• SQL, Access, Python, VBA, or other reporting/automation tools are a plus.
• Healthcare, revenue cycle, operations, or large-scale workforce environment experience is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Human Resources, or a related field preferred.

Ideal Background This role could be a strong fit for someone coming from:

• Workforce planning
• HR analytics
• People analytics
• Business analytics
• Financial planning and analysis
• Operations analytics
• Revenue operations analytics
• Healthcare operations reporting
• Talent analytics
• Capacity planning
• Labor forecasting

The most important requirement is strong analytical ability, especially in Excel, and the ability to help create structure, models, and reporting in a fast-moving environment. Contract-to-Hire Details This is a contract-to-hire opportunity, with an initial target contract period of approximately 3 months. The contract period is intended to give both sides the opportunity to evaluate long-term fit before conversion.

Compensation

Compensation is based on geographic location, with a current full-time salary range of approximately: $65,000–$91,000 base salary, plus bonus potential up to $5,000 Final compensation may vary based on location, experience, skill level, and internal compensation guidelines. Why This Role Is a Strong Opportunity This is a chance to step into a high-impact workforce planning function at an important point of transformation. The organization is building a more proactive, analytics-driven approach to talent planning, skill development, automation impact, and future workforce design. For someone who enjoys Excel modeling, forecasting, data analysis, and building tools that leadership will actually use, this role offers strong visibility and the opportunity to become a key contributor to long-term workforce strategy. #LAIT Pay: $65,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

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