Onsite Senior Manager, Workforce Planning

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About the role

  • Senior Manager leading large-scale workforce planning initiatives for Walmart's customer care operations. Collaborating cross-functionally to ensure operational readiness and scalability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead large-scale, network-wide workforce planning initiatives including peak planning and execution, new business stand-up, and integration into workforce management
  • Own end-to-end workforce planning for new site openings, closures, and headcount transitions, ensuring operational readiness and minimal service disruption
  • Drive annual and intra-year peak planning efforts, aligning demand forecasts, capacity plans, hiring strategies, and execution timelines across the network
  • Partner closely with operations, business units, recruiting, training, finance, data science, and WFM teams to translate business strategy into executable workforce plans
  • Monitor execution performance for major workforce initiatives, proactively identifying risks, tradeoffs, and mitigation strategies
  • Lead scenario planning and risk modeling for volume volatility, ramp curves, and capacity constraints
  • Communicate workforce strategies, assumptions, and outcomes clearly to senior leadership to enable informed decision-making
  • Establish governance, standard processes, and documentation to improve consistency, scalability, and planning rigor
  • Analyze outcomes of workforce initiatives to identify root causes, drive continuous improvement, and strengthen future planning

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Analytics, Industrial Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred
  • 14 – 20 years of experience in workforce planning, capacity planning, operations strategy, or large-scale program leadership
  • Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional workforce initiatives across multiple sites or business units
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority
  • Deep understanding of workforce management concepts, forecasting, capacity modeling, and operational execution
  • Experience supporting large contact center, retail, or service-based operations at scale is strongly preferred
  • Ability to manage ambiguity, balance competing priorities, and drive results in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

  • incentive awards for your performance
  • maternity and parental leave
  • PTO
  • health benefits
  • best-in-class benefits

Job title

Senior Manager, Workforce Planning

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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