Senior

Sr Workforce Analyst

Madison, United States · On-site

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Job description

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity This position works remotely supporting our customer service teams in the Cancer Diagnostics division.

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.

Position Overview The Senior Workforce Analyst plays a key role in informing enterprise workforce and operational decisions through advanced analytics, strategic workforce planning, and performance management. This position leads complex forecasting, KPI development, and performance scorecards that support significant workforce investments, operating budgets, and service delivery decisions across multiple business units. By integrating workforce demand forecasting, employee performance analytics, and contact center operational metrics, the Senior Analyst ensures the organization maintains the right talent, in the right roles, at the right time. The role works closely with senior leadership, HR, Operations, Finance, and Workforce Management teams to provide data-driven insights that guide strategic planning, optimize workforce spending, and improve operational performance with multimillions investments.

Shift: Monday – Friday 8:00am – 5:00pm (must be available to support CST)

What You’ll Work On Include, but are not limited to, the following:

Develop, implement, and maintain predictive and prescriptive analytical models (e.g., regression, time-series, optimization, simulation) to forecast workforce needs and operational demand.
Create scenario analysis models to evaluate staffing strategies, budget impacts, capacity risks, and operational outcomes.
Conduct sensitivity analysis to quantify variables affecting productivity, headcount, employee performance, and call center efficiency.
Identify workforce-related trends, risks, and opportunities to support strategic planning and operational decision-making.
Lead annual, quarterly, and long-range workforce planning cycles to align talent supply with organizational growth and service-level requirements.
Translate business projections and strategic initiatives into workforce requirements, staffing plans, and budget recommendations.
Monitor and analyze headcount trends, attrition, hiring velocity, and employee productivity across functions and business units.
Develop, maintain, and enhance employee and departmental performance balanced scorecards to measure performance against strategic objectives.
Define performance KPIs tied to efficiency, quality, productivity, and customer experience.
Partner with HR and business leaders to ensure fair, data-driven performance evaluations supported by accurate metrics and dashboards.
Support the development of performance-related incentive models and operational KPIs for contact center teams.
Track, analyze, and report on contact center operational metrics, including AHT, ASA, call volume, handle time, FCR, service-level attainment, schedule adherence, and productivity.
Provide leadership with actionable insights and operational models to enhance capacity planning, queue optimization, and workload balancing.
Serve as a strategic liaison between HR, Operations, Finance, Workforce Management, and business-line leaders.
Lead presentations for executive leadership with actionable insights and operational models focused on workforce insights, performance trends, and recommended actions.
Build and maintain interactive dashboards that track workforce KPIs, employee performance metrics, operational performance, and contact center metrics

General duties

Ensures compliance with all Company quality procedures and guidelines, including, but not limited to, Quality Policy and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
Stays current with relevant guidelines and policies for medical devices (e.g., HIPAA, Medical Device Reporting, etc.)
Conducts all assigned job duties in a timely and productive manner.
Performs all job duties according to Quality & Improvement policies and procedures.
Documents and maintains workforce management policies and procedures in Nucleus and partners with Workforce leaders.
Assists with special projects as needed.
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
Excellent presentation and persuasive skills.
Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
Ability to organize work, set priorities, and work effectively in a diverse environment.
Disciplined, self-motivated, and reliable.
Ability to work alone with minimum supervision and with others in a team environment, occasionally under pressure and on several tasks at the same time.
Diligent about arriving to work on time and completing tasks that are assigned in a timely manner.
Possesses a positive attitude with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact and build strong working relationships with all levels of the organization.
Ability to work in a team environment, positively respond to pressure, and adapt to changing workload and circumstances effectively; able to respond to new information quickly.
Ability to work on a computer and phone simultaneously.
Ability to use a telephone through a headset.
Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for 100% of a typical working day.
Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in a field related to essential duties; or Associate’s degree and 2 years of relevant experience; or High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) and 4 years of relevant experience.
5 years of progressive experience in workforce planning, analytics, performance management, or contact center operations.
Demonstrated ability applying advanced analytical models to business operations and workforce management.
Demonstrated ability Strong background in developing and managing KPIs, scorecards, and performance dashboards.
Advanced proficiency in workforce planning systems, HRIS, and ERP platforms (e.g., Workday, SAP, Anaplan, NICE, Verint, Calabrio).
Advanced proficiency using Erlang-C or similar capacity modeling methods.
Advanced proficiency forecasting models, including call center methodologies and interval forecasting.
Advanced proficiency in statistical modeling using Excel, SQL, Python, R, or equivalent languages.
Strong proficiency in BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.
Strong proficiency with performance management platforms and scorecard frameworks.
Strong proficiency with analytical reasoning, problem-solving, data-driven mindset and strategic thinking abilities.
Excellent proficiency communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex analyses.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions and manage multiple priorities.
Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in country where work will be performed on a full or part-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas currently.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Business Analytics, Applied Mathematics or HR Analytics
Experience designing or implementing predictive workforce planning frameworks.
Demonstrated ability to influence executive leaders through data storytelling.
Experience in financial modeling, budgeting, or operational planning.
Automation experience with data pipelines or workflow integration tools.
Certifications (e.g., Tableau, Six Sigma, PMP, CCWFM).

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at abbott.com, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers.

The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job family Customer Service

Divisione ONCO Cancer Diagnostics

Sede di lavoro United States of America : Remote

Sedi di lavoro ulteriori

Turni Standard

Viaggiare No

Controllo medico No

Attività lavorative significative Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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