JOB SUMMARY:
Universal Parks and NBCUniversal are seeking a highly experienced Senior Workforce Management Analyst to provide strategic workforce planning and decision support for the global TechLine organization, a 24x7 customer-centric IT service desk supporting employees worldwide.
This role serves as the primary workforce management subject matter expert and strategic advisor for forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling, real-time management, reporting, and workforce optimization across TechLine operations. The role independently leads the full WFM lifecycle for a complex global support organization and translates operational demand into clear staffing, labor-capacity, and resource investment recommendations.
The Senior Workforce Management Analyst will partner closely with Operations leadership, HR, Finance, and regional stakeholders to develop data-driven staffing strategies, evaluate labor requirements, support annual and in-year budget planning, and optimize workforce utilization while protecting service-level commitments. Analyses produced by this role will directly inform senior leaders' decisions regarding headcount, hiring timing, shift design, labor allocation, budget priorities, and operational trade-offs.
The successful candidate must be comfortable operating with significant autonomy, managing competing priorities, presenting recommendations to senior leaders, and serving as the primary WFM advisor for a multilingual, multi-regional 24x7 support environment.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own workforce planning processes for a global 24x7 IT support operation - Lead long-range forecasting, capacity planning, staffing models, labor-demand scenarios, and hiring recommendations used by senior leaders to make headcount and budget decisions.
- Develop short- and long-range workforce plans, staffing models, and shift strategies using forecasted demand, historical trends, seasonality, service-level objectives, productivity, labor costs, and language/skill-based coverage requirements.
- Oversee intraday management, real-time performance monitoring, and operational adjustments to protect service levels
- Analyze trends in call volume, ticket demand, shrinkage, utilization, occupancy, productivity, and service performance
- Develop executive-level reporting, decision-ready workforce insights, dashboards, and recommendations that quantify staffing needs, labor capacity, budget impacts, risks, and operational trade-offs
- Drive workforce management process improvements, automation initiatives, and optimization strategies - Produce executive dashboards and reports with recommendations that clearly communicate key assumptions, risks, trade-offs, and financial implications.
- Partner with Operations, HR, Finance, and regional stakeholders to lead workforce optimization initiatives and support annual planning, budget cycles, business changes, growth initiatives, and workforce investment decisions.
- Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities (KSAs) required.
- Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Consistent attendance is a job requirement.
- Demonstrated expertise in forecasting methodologies, staffing models, scheduling, shrinkage planning, and real-time workforce management.
- Advanced Excel skills including Pivot Tables, Power Query, complex formulas, scenario modeling, and data analysis.
- Experience developing staffing models, labor-cost scenarios, business cases, and recommendations for operational and senior executive leadership.
- Strong analytical and financial acumen with the ability to transform complex operational and workforce data into actionable staffing, budget, and investment decisions.
- Proven ability to work independently with minimal direction and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience supporting global, multilingual, or geographically distributed operations.
- Experience within IT Service Management (ITSM), Service Desk, Help Desk, Technical Support, or Contact Center environments.
- Experience with workforce management platforms such as CommunityWFM, Zoom WFM, NICE/IEX, Verint, Calabrio, Amazon Connect WFM, Genesys, or similar solutions.
- Experience creating workforce dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, or similar business intelligence platforms.
- Working knowledge of ITIL principles and service operations.
- Experience leading workforce planning projects, process improvement initiatives, or automation efforts.
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Operations Management, Analytics, Mathematics, Information Systems, or related field preferred.
- Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
EXPERIENCE:
- 5+ years of workforce management, capacity planning, forecasting, or workforce analytics experience.
- Experience supporting medium to large contact centers, service desks, operations centers, or other 24x7 support environments.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
- This role supports a 24x7 global operation and requires flexibility to support critical business needs outside standard business hours when necessary.
- Occasional participation in cross-functional operational planning sessions and leadership reviews is required.
- This position is expected to operate independently and provide strategic workforce management guidance with limited day-to-day supervision.
Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.
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