Manager, Enterprise Workforce Planning

Job Posting Title

Manager, Enterprise Workforce Planning

Job Category

Workforce Analysis

Language Requirements

English or Bilingual / Anglais ou bilingue

Flexible Work Agreement Type

Hybrid / Hybride

Posting End Date

2025-10-28

Job Grade

L1 Zone A

Pay Range

Commensurate with Experience / Selon l’expérience

Job Summary

Are you ready to shape the future of workforce planning at an enterprise level? This is not just another role—it's a rare opportunity to be the first in a newly created position that will define how we plan, strategize, and evolve our workforce across the organization. We're not looking for someone to inherit a playbook—we're looking for someone to write it.

As the Manager, Enterprise Workforce Planning, you’ll be at the forefront of building enterprise level frameworks and influencing how we align our workforce with business strategy. You won’t be doing this alone; you’ll be joining a passionate and experienced team that’s already driving workforce insights and analytics. Together, you’ll collaborate across departments, challenge the status quo, and bring innovative thinking to a space that’s ripe for transformation.

This is your chance to make a lasting impact from day one. If you’re a seasoned professional with a passion for strategic workforce planning, a knack for building from the ground up, and the influence to drive change across a complex organization—this is the role for you.

Job Description

What NAV CANADA offers you:

- Challenging, team-oriented work environment
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Defined benefit pension plan
- Opportunities for growth and development
- Diverse and inclusive workforce

In this role you will:
1. With guidance from the Director and Manager, Workforce Planning & Analysis, the manager develops and continuously improves an organization-wide Strategic Workforce Planning strategy, framework, and approach to support the Organization’s strategies and initiatives related to planning for the workforce.- Creatively and effectively responds to operational and client-based business requirements by assessing and developing innovative solutions to short term and longer-term workforce related business issues.

2. With guidance from the Manager, Workforce Planning & Analysis, researches, develops, improves and implements workforce planning processes, practices and action-plans to assist Workforce Planning and the organization in the formulation of workforce related strategic direction, frameworks and initiatives that are translated into measurable objectives that meet the organization’s goals.- Leads the design, implementation, adoption, and improvement of workforce planning models, systems and toolkits, collaborating with different stakeholders to identify and select the most appropriate solutions associated with workforce planning in alignment with the strategic direction.

3. Leads business activities to determine staffing requirement, create staffing plans and forecast, develops scenarios and creates an organization-level staffing forecast that aligns with the organization’s future staffing requirements, strategic initiatives, predictive analytics, and industry trends.- Leads regular assessments with managers to determine, review and revise staffing requirements and staffing plans.- Ensures established processes and governance are adhered to and escalates any issues and makes recommendations on resolutions.

4. Proactively analyses, validates against set objectives, and monitors workforce plans, outcomes and risks at an organisation and business client level to ensure workforce objectives are heading in the right direction.- Makes recommendations to Senior Leadership related to the effective and efficient use of staffing, as well as recommendations related to results that may require additional analysis.

5. Leads, participates, or collaborates with Project Management activities within the department to develop or implement initiatives, including improvements in the performance of workforce planning related services or to meet the needs of the organization.- Engages with Labour Relations, Unions, other stakeholders, and key senior leaders to ensure the initiatives meet requirements, plans are thorough, and implementation is successful.

6. Leads, participates, or collaborates to workforce related research and development, and analytical insight to recommend improvements that drive labor practices, inform labor negotiations and inform how workforce plans are developed, including assessing key hypothesis and assumptions that will drive staffing forecasting.
7. Develops and delivers compelling presentations to business leaders on staffing forecast plan and other workforce related issues that may impact business outcomes.
8. Develops and designs communications and training material used to support WP's processes. Participates in change management assessment and activities.- Delivers ongoing training and support to managers around the under