Manager, Global Workforce Planning Excellence

Hybrid, Helsinki

We’re looking for Manager, Global Workforce Planning Excellence for Amer Sports’ office in Helsinki.

Amer Sports is a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, powered by a community of people who share a passion for authenticity, impact, and excellence. We bring together leading brands, talented teams, and a culture built on collaboration. If you’re looking for an environment where you can make an impact and grow your career, we invite you to explore the opportunity below.

We are looking for a Manager, Global Workforce Planning Excellence to drive and elevate our global workforce planning agenda. This is a highly visible role sitting at the intersection of HR, Finance, and business leadership, where you will bridge strategic planning with operational execution across our Brands, Regions, and Group Functions.

You will work in a small, fast-paced and collaborative global team, reporting directly to the Practice Lead, People Analytics & Workforce Planning.

What you will be doing

• Manage the end-to-end workforce planning cadence (long-range strategic planning, annual business planning, quarterly forecasting), ensuring milestones, dependencies, and deliverables are met across key stakeholders.
• Drive change management for new planning processes and tools by designing and delivering communication strategies and training programs that leverage best practices to maximize user adoption and engagement.
• Secure compliant usage of workforce related data and access management
• Drive adoption and enhancements of the current workforce planning process and planner experience enabling efficient usage and forecast accuracy, developing and maintaining playbooks for planning processes
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of global plans by establishing and monitoring planning policies, forecast timelines, data quality standards, and centralized planning assumptions
• Build relationships to work effectively across HR and Finance stakeholders from Brands, Regions and Group Functions globally, serve as the primary liaison to ensure alignment on process and targets as well as maintain a proactive dialogue anticipating future needs.
• Partner with the system administration team to scale the planning platform and drive technical solution implementations
• Support strategic projects and analyses such as driver-based scenario modeling for workforce and related people costs, variance analysis and other HR projects as needed.

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Finance, Business Administration, or similar
• Proven experience (5+ years) in managing complex, cross-functional processes, ideally within HR or Finance
• Hands-on experience in workforce planning, forecasting, and budgeting/planning processes
• Strong program and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights
• Strong analytical mindset, with experience in data modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis
• High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and integrity
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with experience in financial or workforce planning tools
• In-depth knowledge of financial principles, accounting standards, financial modeling, and forecasting approaches.
• Experience working with financial planning systems such as OneStream or Oracle.

What’s in it for you

At Amer Sports, you’ll be part of a global community of people who care about what they do and how they do it. Across our teams and brands, we are driven by ambition, collaboration, and a shared purpose of elevating the world through sport.

• Employee product benefits: Enjoy access to employee discounts on quality products from our iconic brands.
• Global collaboration: Work with diverse, international teams and collaborate across brands, functions, and markets, learning from different perspectives along the way.
• Access to a global network of leading brands: Work within a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, gaining exposure to different businesses, perspectives, and opportunities across Amer Sports.
• We’re in the game together: Join a culture built on trust, support, and shared responsibility, where progress is achieved together and success is celebrated as a team.
• Purpose‑driven environment: Be part of work that supports healthier, more active lives through our iconic sports and outdoor brands.
• Small teams, real impact: Contribute in small, trusted teams within a global company, where your ideas matter and your work can create real impact.
• Excellence in how we work: Join an environment where quality, innovation, and continuous improvement matter, and where people are encouraged to raise the bar in how work is done.
• Ambitious career development: Develop your skills through meaningful work, new challenges, and collaboration with experienced colleagues.
• Modern technologies and ways of working: Be part of teams that work with modern technologies and continuously evolve how we build, operate, and improve our digital solutions.

What to expect from the recruitment process

Interested?

Please submit your application via the application form latest on. CVs sent by email will not be considered or processed.

If you have any questions or need clarification at any stage of the application process or during your journey with us, please don't hesitate to reach out to talentacquisition@amersports.com (HR). Apply and join us in striving for excellence at each step!

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