Workforce Planning Analyst (Contract)

This position is offered through HireGenics and is not a direct employment opportunity with Southwest Airlines Co. The role is contingent and may transition to full-time employment at the discretion of Southwest Airlines Co., based on performance, business needs, and other factors. Please note that contract workers are subject to the terms and conditions set by HireGenics during the contractual period. This contract position is not associated with any labor union or Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Workforce Planning Analyst (Contract)

Job Summary

Responsible for data engineering, designing dashboards and reports, delivering analytics insights, and collaborating with stakeholders to present analytics, measure targets, and develop roadmaps. Support the broader team with expertise in workforce planning by creating methodologies, processes, and guides to enable business functions through data analysis and headcount forecasting

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership, lead data engineering initiatives and build end-to-end analytical solutions that are highly available, scalable, stable, secure, and cost-effective

Improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service modeling and production support for customers

Translate data collection methodologies and analytical results into stories and presentations that help organizational leaders to understand the opportunities and inform decision making

Analyze complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers

Identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets to locate influences

Build end-to-end analytical solutions that are highly available, scalable, stable, secure, and cost-effective

Derive insights from spans, layers, and Senior Leader Ratios to optimize the workforce

Promote Workforce intelligence across SWA and use data storytelling to communicate findings and recommendations for talent, headcount and labor market data to drive business results

Help identify new data for integration, and propose and implement new technologies to help us better understand our data

Educate internal Customers on Workforce intelligence by developing and answering questions, and reviewing work in order to provide guidance on system use and ensure consistency of data

May perform other job duties as directed by Employee’s Leaders

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Skilled in Excel, including pivot tables, v-look ups, macros, and advanced formulas

Skilled in analytics

Ability to build data products incrementally and integrating and managing datasets from multiple sources

Ability to stay organized and deliver high quality work, paying close attention to details

Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems

Ability to produce quality and accurate work under pressure of tight deadlines

Ability to initiate tasks, perform duties, respond to inquiries, and think independently without direction or supervision

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret data

Ability to identify and analyze trends in large sets of data

Ability to produce quality and accurate work under pressure of tight deadlines

Required

Required: High School Diploma or GED

Licensing/Certification

N/A

Physical Abilities

Ability to perform work duties from [limited space workstation/desk/office area] for extended periods of time

Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job

Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job

Other Qualifications

Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines

Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986

Must be at least 18 years of age

Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines

Pay

Competitive market rate from $43.00-$54.00 hour* depending on qualifications and experience.

Assignment Length

This contract is a 12-month assignment, and the duration may be modified based on business need.

Pay amount doesn’t guarantee employment for any particular period

This role is contingent and may transition to full-time employment at the discretion of Southwest Airlines Co, based on performance, business needs, and other factors. To view benefits offered to Southwest Employees, review our Benefits page .