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A Principal Strategist Workforce Planning is a senior professional responsible for developing and implementing strategies to ensure an organization has the right talent in place to meet its current and future business goals. They analyze workforce data, forecast staffing needs, and create plans to address skill gaps and optimize talent deployment. This role often involves collaborating with leadership, human resources, and business units to align workforce planning with organizational strategy. Principal Strategists also monitor industry trends and recommend best practices to enhance overall workforce effectiveness.

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To thrive as a Principal Strategist Workforce Planning, you need advanced analytical skills, experience in human resources or organizational development, and typically a degree in business, HR, or a related field. Expertise in workforce analytics platforms, HRIS systems, and forecasting tools, along with relevant certifications such as SHRM-SCP or SPHR, is highly valued. Strong leadership, communication, and change management abilities help drive strategic alignment and stakeholder engagement. These skills ensure effective long-term talent planning and enable organizations to proactively address workforce challenges in a dynamic environment.

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Strategic Workforce Planning - Principal

Washington, DC

Fannie Mae
Finance and Insurance • 5 - 10K employees
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$175K - $239K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Life

Re-posted 29 days ago

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Company rating: 9.2 out of 10

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Job description

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and lead an enterprise-ready strategic workforce planning framework that enables leaders at both the enterprise and divisional levels to define, assess, and execute workforce strategies aligned to business priorities. 

  • Serve as a strategic partner to Human Capital Consultants and senior business leaders, assessing current and future workforce needs and co-developing plans that leverage strengths, address gaps, and mitigate risk. 

  • Influence and engage senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to align workforce strategies with organizational goals, ensuring buy-in for talent initiatives and long-term capability development. 

  • Facilitate strategic workforce planning sessions and executive working forums, aligning stakeholders around business assumptions, external labor market dynamics, and future workforce scenarios. 

  • Analyze internal workforce data, labor market trends, and business forecasts to identify critical capability risks, talent surpluses or shortages, and opportunities for strategic intervention. 

  • Partner with finance to align with the budgeting and forecasting process as well as develop and deploy resources to support leaders. 

  • Collaborate with internal workforce analytics teams to support planning and decision-making. 

  • Translate complex analyses into compelling narratives, recommendations, and executive-level materials, enabling leaders to take decisive action.  

  • Work across HR to incorporate workforce planning insights into talent acquisition, workforce development, talent enablement, and broader HR strategy. 

Candidate Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience with design and implementation of strategic planning, HR strategy, talent management, organizational design, or a related discipline. Strong preference for candidates with at least three years of strategic workforce planning experience. 

  • Experience in workforce planning efforts across different business divisions/corporate areas, ideally in a large, complex organization. 

  • Deep knowledge of various workforce planning technologies and the ability to spot trends and interpret workforce data, market dynamics, and business forecasts.  

  • Strong skills translating workforce analytics into clear, actionable insights that influence executive decision-making. 

  • Demonstrated ability to understand and make recommendations around workforce cost, capacity, and delivery tradeoff decisions in constrained environments. 

  • Proven success operating in regulated, risk-aware, or highly scrutinized environments (e.g., financial services, government-adjacent, healthcare, defense). 

  • Experience partnering directly with senior executives across different business divisions. 

  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.  

  • Financial and business acumen 

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field. 

Target Pay Range: $175,000 - 239,000

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Qualifications

Business Acumen, Change Management, Consulting, HR Strategy, Organizational Development (OD), Portfolio Management, Process Implementations, Process Improvements, Strategic Management, Strategic Planning, Talent Management

Education:

Bachelor's Level Degree

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For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.


Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company. If you need assistance using our online system and/or you need a reasonable accommodation related to the hiring/application process, please complete this form.

The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

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