Capacity Planning Analyst, Workforce Management

1 month ago


Ottawa Ontario HB, Montréal, Canada Sun Life Financial Full time
Capacity Planning Analyst, Workforce Management

Position Summary

At Sun Life, we work together, share common values and encourage growth and achievement. We offer many career paths that attract a wide variety of talent and skills. Follow a path that lets your talents shine.

Are you someone who is passionate about data, with superior analytical skills?

We are looking for someone to work with operational partners to plan optimal resourcing. In this role, you will use projected work volumes and staffing data to create a future-looking plan to address the staffing needs of different business units. You will be in frequent contact with those business units, working with them to update the plan, optimize based on several business constraints, analyze the impact of internal and external factors, and provide recommendations on potential solutions. Your work will drive operational decision-making about staffing levels.

The role requires creative problem-solving, teamwork, excellent communication and presentation skills, a willingness to try new techniques, and the ability to handle several diverse and concurrent projects.

What Will You Do?

  • Create, maintain, and update capacity plans including timing of hiring and analysis on attrition, shrinkage and other factors impacting capacity
  • Support operations in planning of vacations, training, and other events
  • Support the creation of an annual staffing budget forecast
  • Collect, manipulate, and analyze data related to capacity, supply, and demand
  • Gather information from operations on project impacts, other factors that could impact planning or work volumes
  • Calculate optimal staffing levels based on forecasts, capacity models, and business constraints
  • Measure, assess and communicate variation from plan, including analysis of the cause and impact to KPIs of those differences
  • Help to balance staffing needs across different business units
  • Work within a team to provide analysis, insights and recommendations to senior business leaders to help them recognize areas of opportunity and drive evidence-based operational decisions
  • Work with forecasters, schedulers, to refine plans and ensure continuity of resourcing
  • Provide project teams with process recommendations, workload/staffing forecasts, costs as required to support changes.
  • Look for ways to innovate and improve processes in a Continuous Improvement environment

What you need to succeed:

  • Minimum of Post Secondary Education in Business Administration, Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Mathematics, Econometrics, or equivalent experience
  • Experience using Visual Basics to automate manual business processes.
  • Experience with querying data using SQL
  • Experience visualizing data with Tableau
  • Experience analyzing and data modeling business process data
  • Demonstrated experience working with data, including transformation, manipulation, forecasting, and statistical modeling
  • Demonstrated ability to turn forecast volumes into capacity models

Individual Skills:

  • Strong critical thinking & creative problem solving
  • Demonstrated success working collaboratively within a team to produce results
  • Demonstrated ability to produce and communicate meaningful results from data
  • Ability to effectively visualize and present complex data adapted to a variety of audiences to help with decision-making
  • Ability to build partnerships, work collaboratively, and develop relationships with a variety of stakeholder

Assets:

  • Experience with Workforce Management Software (IEX, Genesys, Pega)
  • Experience using large databases with complex relationships between tables
  • Experience applying queueing theory to business problems
  • Experience solving optimization problems

What’s in it for you:

  • We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2024 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work Canada.
  • We’re proud to be recognized as a company with a 2023 Most Trusted Executive team by Great Place to Work Canada.
  • Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical, and financial
  • The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
  • As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client needs to choose where you work, at home or in the office.
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