Workforce Strategy Analyst

Job role: Workforce Strategy Analyst

Duration: 3-6-month contract-to-hire

Location: Hybrid in Short Hills, NJ

Initial Project:

The first major initiative will be an IT job-function architecture restructuring project. This person will partner with HR and IT leadership to evaluate and update:

• IT job families and functional groupings
• Job titles and descriptions
• Career levels and progression frameworks
• Skills and capability requirements
• Compensation ranges and external market alignment

Additional Responsibilities:

• Support IT workforce strategy and long-term workforce planning
• Analyze workforce demographics, staffing trends, skill gaps, and organizational risks
• Research market trends, emerging technology roles, and industry benchmarks
• Develop workforce dashboards, scorecards, metrics, and executive presentations
• Track recruiting metrics, including time-to-fill, candidate quality, and hiring outcomes
• Evaluate onboarding effectiveness, employee experience, productivity, and retention
• Coordinate talent development, career-pathing, training, certifications, and internal mobility initiatives
• Facilitate working sessions across IT, HR, Talent Acquisition, Compensation, Talent Development, and Organizational Effectiveness
• Manage meetings, project plans, action items, timelines, and stakeholder follow-ups

Ideal Background:

• 3-7 years of experience in workforce planning, job architecture, people analytics, talent management, organizational effectiveness, HR operations, compensation, or HR program/project management
• Experience working across both HR and technology or business organizations
• Strong analytical, research, project management, and process-improvement capabilities
• Experience creating dashboards, metrics, leadership presentations, or executive reporting
• Advanced proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong communication, meeting facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities and drive initiatives through completion
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Organizational Development, Psychology, Management, Information Systems, or a related discipline