Palo Alto Workforce Planning Manager 

United States, California 

490375198

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Your Career

As our Workforce Planning Manager, you will have the opportunity to shape a dynamic workforce that is delivering one of the fastest growing infrastructures in the world as the company scales. In this role you will work directly with executive business leaders to develop and execute strategies that enable their organizations to expand, develop and perform as Palo Alto Networks requirements shift. This role is focused on enhancing business results by delivering workforce insights, crafting evidence-based workforce strategies, and developing driver-based headcount plans alongside business leaders. This high-visibility role requires strategic thinking, deep expertise in planning, strong stakeholder relationships, and effective project delivery.

Your Impact

• Support executive leaders and their teams with workforce planning for their organizations, translating business requirements into workforce strategies.

• Facilitate the annual headcount planning process and evaluate ad hoc requests for new headcount.

• Identify new types of roles that will enable teams to achieve shifting business requirements.

• Discover the drivers of work and develop models that describe how teams should scale as business requirements expand.

• Develop and launch evidence-based workforce strategies to increase workforce efficiency, remove hiring roadblock or solve other business challenges.

• Enable leaders to understand and manage their workforce resources by developing and delivering reports and insights.

• Partners with all teams (Recruiting, Finance, HR, and other cross-functional partners) to develop and execute strategies.

• Demonstrate judgment and discretion when dealing with highly sensitive people data.

Your Experience

• 8+ years of professional experience in a workforce strategy role, including headcount planning and developing evidence-based strategies to improve business results with workforce levers.

• 5+ years of experience consulting with executive leaders on workforce strategies.

• Experience collecting, interpreting, and reporting on data to make business recommendations for leaders in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience establishing and maintaining cross-functional relationships.

• Experience with communication, organization, and working on multiple projects.

• Bachelor's degree in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Psychology, Economics, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Psychology, Economics, or related degree.

• Experience developing strategies for a technical workforce.

• Experience in cyber security or infrastructure operations is a plus.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $117,000 - $187,000. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.