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Vice President, Workforce Planning and Talent Development

RWJBarnabas Health
life insurance, vision insurance, parental leave, paid time off, sick time, long term disability, tuition reimbursement
United States, New Jersey, West Orange
95 Old Short Hills Road (Show on map)
Nov 07, 2025
Vice President, Workforce Planning and Talent Development
Req #: 48200

Category: Leadership

Status: Full-Time

Shift: Day

Facility: RWJBarnabas Health Corporate Services

Department: Talent Management

Pay Range: $175,000.00 - $300,000.00 per year

Location:
95 Old Short Hills Road, West Orange, NJ 07052


Job Title: Vice President

Location: SBC Corporation

Department Name: Talent Management

Req #: 0000220400

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $175,000.00 - $300,000.00 per year

Pay Transparency: The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Vice President, Workforce Planning and Talent Development

Job Overview:

Lead the design and execution of an integrated workforce plan that ensures the organization has the right talent, in the right place, at the right time. This role is accountable for driving workforce planning, building critical skillset pipelines, advancing talent analytics to drive talent decisions and focus areas, and shaping enterprise-wide talent development strategies derived from organizational needs. This role is a critical contribution to building a future-ready workforce and enabling sustainable business performance. Develop and embed a change management framework, methodology, and toolkit to support enterprise transformation.

Reports To:

The Vice President, Workforce Planning and Talent Development reports directly to the Senior Vice President, Talent Management.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in Business, HR, Organizational Development, related field preferred or equivalent experience
  • 15+ years of progressive HR, Talent Management or Strategic Planning experience, with significant focus on workforce planning, talent management and pipeline building and talent analytics
  • Demonstrated experience building and executing workforce strategies in complex, large organizations
  • Consistently model RWJBH Leadership Competences
  • Deep expertise in workforce planning, strategic talent management, and analytics
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Proven track record of leading transformation and driving adoption of new processes and tools

Essential Functions:

Workforce Planning & Talent Strategy

  • Lead enterprise workforce planning, integrating business strategy, labor market insights, and internal talent data
  • Translate workforce plans into actionable build and buy talent strategies; identify talent acquisition, development, succession, organizational design and retention priorities
  • Collaborate with business and HR leaders to anticipate capability gaps and recommend solutions to address them

Workforce Development

  • Define Workforce Development strategy in context of overall workforce plan and ensure private, system and public funds are channeled to the most critical talent capability areas
  • Oversee the team delivering Workforce Development initiatives and demonstrate the ROI of each program
  • Be Talent Management point of contact for all RWJBH schools and talent pipeline building initiatives to ensure overall connection and alignment to workforce plan and talent strategy

Change Management & Transformation

  • Develop and embed a change management framework, methodology, and toolkit to support enterprise transformation
  • Build and sustain change capability across leaders, managers, and employees through training, coaching, and playbooks
  • Lead change impact assessments, readiness plans, and adoption strategies for major transformation programs
  • Partner with communications and HR teams to deliver clear and consistent engagement and communication strategies
  • Establish and lead a network of change champions across the organization
  • Track and report on change effectiveness, adoption, and employee experience metrics

Organizational Development OD

  • Design and deliver OD strategies, programs, and interventions to strengthen organizational capability, culture, and performance
  • Lead initiatives to shape and reinforce organizational culture aligned to strategy and values
  • Partner with Leadership Development & Learning to integrate leadership development, succession, and learning solutions into OD practices

Performance Management

  • Own and continuously evolve the performance management process, ensuring it is simple, meaningful, and aligned to organizational goals
  • Strengthen the connection between individual performance, organizational strategy, and reward outcomes
  • Partner with Leadership Development and Learning Solutions to equip leaders to have effective performance and development conversations that drive accountability and growth
  • Strong understanding of performance management frameworks and their link to business outcomes and rewards

Talent Analytics & Insights

  • Build and mature a talent analytics capability that provides predictive talent insights and informs strategic workforce planning decisions
  • Partner with HR and business leaders to deliver insights that inform and drive superior talent development and investment decisions. Track by establishing metrics and dashboards that measure talent impact

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits and Perks:

At RWJBarnabas Health, our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Driven by our Total Wellbeing promise, our market-competitive offerings include comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees' physical, emotional, financial, personal, career, and community wellbeing. These benefits and resources include, but are not limited to:

  • Paid Time Off including Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
  • Retirement Plans
  • Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
  • Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Disability and Life Insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Student Loan Planning Support
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Wellness Programs
  • Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
  • Community and Volunteer Opportunities
  • Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, and Verizon
  • ....and more!

Choosing RWJBarnabas Health!

RWJBarnabas Health is the premier health care destination providing patient-centered, high-quality academic medicine in a compassionate and equitable manner, while delivering a best-in-class work experience to every member of the team. We honor and appreciate the privilege of creating and sustaining healthier communities, one person and one community at a time. As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health.

RWJBarnabas Health aims to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey-whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
  • Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Retirement Plans
  • Short & Long Term Disability
  • Life & Accidental Death Insurance
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Wellness Programs
  • Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
  • Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!


RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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