Palo Alto Director Workforce Planning 

United States, California 

27584620

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Influential Leadership - Ability to inspire and influence in highly matrixed, fast-moving, and changing environments - Thrive amidst ambiguity and build momentum through strong relationships and impactful contributions
• Data Analytics and Visualization - Summarize people costs from the financial plan and visualize data to track progress effectively
• Data Modeling - Develop long and short-term scenarios in partnership with Finance articulating the HC and cost impact of various people strategies
• Organizational Design - Partner with People Business Partners and Executive Business Leaders to evaluate and optimize organizational effectiveness and efficiency
• Program Management - Execute strategies with clear milestones over the long term to deliver results
• Cross-functional Collaboration - Work seamlessly across finance, HR, strategy, and business

Your Experience

• Strategic planning
  • Develop a 3-year Workforce Plan by function
  • Establish first principles for resource allocation
  • Define productivity metrics by segment and role within each function
  • Identify critical roles and skills necessary for functional strategy execution and potential gaps
  • Launch transformational and hygiene initiatives to optimize revenue per employee
  • Create comprehensive headcount and budgetary plans for personnel
• Operational plans
  • Support functional leaders to develop workforce plans as part of the annual planning process
  • Specific milestones for all transformations & hygiene initiatives
  • Monitor and track progress on a quarterly basis
• Company-wide initiatives to improve effectiveness
  • Identify company-wide opportunities to improve effectiveness
  • Strategize around location and filling capability gaps through hiring, pipelining, or development
  • Improve organizational structure regarding spans and layers
• Inform execution for enabling functions
  • Promotion rates - establish by function as a driver costs
  • Places - space planning
  • Recruiting - sourcing, pipeline and capacity required
  • IT - system, automation & AI dependencies
  • Learning - learning needs to support critical capabilities
  • Compensation & benefits - comp & bens strategy
  • Procurement - inform of sourcing needs
  • Contingent Workforce Team - identify contract workers based on desired mix

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 $203000 - $278750/YR. 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.