Nursing Workforce Planning Specialist

Our Mission: Quality, compassionate care for all.

Our Vision: Reimagine health care through connection, service and innovation.

Our Core Values: Be Kind | Trust and Be Trusted | Work Together | Strive for Excellence.

Logan Health is seeking an analytical, collaborative professional who is confident working with data and communicating directly with leaders for our newly created Nursing Workforce Planning Specialist position!

This important role combines workforce analysis with presentations, relationship building, and collaborative problem-solving. You’ll use spreadsheets and reporting tools to understand workforce trends, then bring those findings into conversations with nursing and operational leaders to help guide staffing decisions. Strong analytical skills, clear communication, and the ability to turn information into practical recommendations are essential to success.

What You’ll Do:

You’ll work closely with nursing leaders, Human Resources, Finance, Staffing, and Talent Acquisition to understand workforce needs and support staffing across our inpatient units. You’ll analyze workforce trends, staffing capacity, labor utilization, turnover, absenteeism, and leave activity to identify challenges and recommend solutions.

Preparing and delivering presentations, meeting with leaders, and discussing recommendations are key parts of this position. You’ll explain what the data shows, answer questions, listen to operational concerns, and help leaders evaluate options for staffing levels, position openings, shift adjustments, and labor resources.

Your work will connect accurate analysis with the conversations and decisions that support workforce stability and planning.

Who You Are:

You’re proficient in Excel, as well as compiling, tracking, and analyzing complex data. You must also be equally comfortable walking leaders through your findings. You can organize and interpret workforce data, and present it in a clear, useful way.

You bring strong listening and interpersonal skills, ask thoughtful questions, and build productive relationships across departments. You can adapt your communication to different audiences, explain the reasoning behind your recommendations, and respond constructively to questions and feedback.

Our ideal candidate combines:

• Strong data analysis and spreadsheet skills, with attention to accuracy and detail.
• The ability to prepare clear reports and presentations that connect findings to recommended actions.
• Confidence presenting information and participating in discussions with leaders.
• A personable, collaborative approach and an interest in understanding the operational needs behind the numbers.
• Sound judgment and the ability to translate workforce information into practical staffing recommendations.

Job Location: Kalispell, Montana

This is an on-site position based at Logan Health Medical Center in scenic Kalispell, Montana. We’re located in the heart of the Flathead Valley, near Glacier National Park, Flathead Lake, and endless hiking and biking trails. Kalispell is a place where you can grow your career and truly enjoy the outdoors during your time off!

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Statistics, Data Analytics, or related field required.
• Three (3) years of workforce analytics, workforce planning, HR analytics, operational analytics, financial analytics, healthcare analytics or a related analytical discipline required.
• Experience analyzing large, complex datasets and using business intelligence, reporting, data visualization, or statistical analysis tools required.
• Experience in a healthcare environment preferred.
• Experience supporting nursing or other clinical workforce planning preferred.
• Experience with workforce planning, staffing analysis, or labor productivity measurement preferred.
• Experience developing workforce forecasts, staffing models, executive dashboards, or other analytical decision-support tools preferred.
• Promotes excellence through setting high standards and providing high quality outcomes.
• Ability to act with integrity, kindness, and exhibit empathy.
• Excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented, a self-starter, possess critical thinking skills and be able to set priorities and function as part of a team as well as independently.
• Commitment to working in a team environment and maintaining confidentiality as needed.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with various audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.
• Possess and maintain computer skills to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn other software as needed.

Job Specific Duties:

• Develops and maintains workforce dashboards, reports, and key performance indicators to monitor staffing trends, labor utilization, turnover, retention, absenteeism, and other workforce metrics.
• Analyzes workforce data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and root causes, providing actionable insights and recommendations to operational and executive leaders.
• Develops workforce forecasts and capacity-planning analyses to support current and future staffing needs across the organization.
• Evaluates the impact of vacancies, leaves of absence, onboarding, workforce transitions, and other staffing factors and recommends proactive strategies to mitigate workforce risks.
• Partners with leaders to interpret workforce data, identify staffing challenges, and support data-driven workforce and resource allocation decisions.
• Provides analytical support for workforce optimization initiatives, staffing model evaluations, capacity planning, resource allocation, and business case development.
• Ensures the accuracy, integrity, and consistency of workforce data through validation, auditing, and collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Identifies and implements process improvements that enhance workforce reporting, analytics, measurement, and organizational effectiveness.
• Establishes and maintains standardized workforce metrics, definitions, and reporting methodologies to support consistent workforce analysis and decision-making.

The above essential functions are representative of major duties of positions in this job classification. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary based upon departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned similar to the above consistent with knowledge, skills and abilities required for the job. Not all of the duties may be assigned to a position.

Shift:

Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week, 8-hour day shifts

Logan Health operates 24 hours per day, seven days per week.  Schedules are set to accommodate the requirements of the position and the needs of the organization and may be adjusted as needed.

Notice of Pre-Employment Screening Requirements

If you receive a job offer, please note all offers are contingent upon passing a pre-employment screening, which includes:

• Criminal background check

• Reference checks

• Drug Screening

• Health and Immunizations Screening

• Physical Demand Review/Screening

Equal Opportunity Employer

Logan Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE/AA/M-F/Vet/Disability). We encourage all qualified individuals to apply for employment. We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on protected veteran status, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you require accommodation to complete the application, testing or interview process, please notify Human Resources.