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The role drives strategic analysis, stakeholder engagement, and transition planning, translating direction into structured transition roadmaps, governance, and enablement materials across annual and quarterly planning cycles.\nActing as a central point of orchestration across Talent Acquisition, HR, Finance, and Technology leadership, this role ensures workforce plans are executable with rigor and confidentiality across a complex, global stakeholder set - providing leadership-ready insights into how strategy translates into effective hiring, operational efficiency and delivery impact. Success requires comfort operating across organizational boundaries, facilitating complex discussions, and bringing clarity, discipline, and coherence to a highly distributed, multi-year transition effort.\nWhat you’ll do:\nEnable Blackbaud India workforce strategy by partnering with the executive sponsor and stakeholders across Product and Enterprise Technology Groups to model strategic scenarios and tradeoffs (e.g., capacity, cost, timing, risk) and translating that strategic direction into multi-year transition roadmaps that drive accountability across annual and quarterly planning cycles.\nLeverage AI to accelerate workforce modeling, forecasting, and reporting, and actively experiment with emerging capabilities as they evolve to improve the speed and quality of insights.\nTrack progress against plans using agreed measures (e.g., hiring velocity, attrition, onboarding effectiveness, and transition readiness), surfacing risks and mitigation actions and translating insights into clear, decision-supporting updates.\nServe as a trusted point of contact for leaders and teams, answering questions and providing clarity on how strategy translates into execution while acting as the central point of orchestration for transition-related risks, issues, escalations, and decision support.\nLead operating forums and program communications to ensure consistent information flow, clear expectations, and disciplined status tracking - tailoring messages on strategy, plans, progress, and risk for audiences at all levels.\nPartner with Finance to support workforce budgeting and quarterly forecasting, tracking progress against plan and monitoring budget-to-actuals to surface variances, risks, and implications for decision-making.\nServe as the source of truth for how workforce plans translate into approved positions and hiring pipelines, partnering with Talent Acquisition, Finance, and technology leaders to enable hiring execution, onboarding readiness, and training enablement, and coordinating globally to keep execution aligned and predictable.\nManage hiring operations with discipline and continuous improvement, including requisition intake, position reviews, and reconciliation across planning and tracking mechanisms, while identifying opportunities to improve scale, quality, and time-to-productivity as plans evolve.\nMaintain confidentiality of workforce planning activities by enforcing disclosure processes and information-sharing boundaries so sensitive materials are accessible only to approved participants.\nDefine, document, and continuously refine workforce planning, hiring, and operating processes for Blackbaud India, including approval flows, governance, hiring/backfill models, and tracking, and identify where broader enterprise business processes must adapt to support the evolving global operating model.\nWhat we’ll want you to have:\n8+ years of experience in workforce planning, transformation, or complex program leadership, preferably in a modern SaaS or product-led technology organization\nDemonstrated experience supporting multi-year, cross-organizational initiatives, with a strong track record of orchestrating cross-functional work and partnering effectively without direct authority.\nProven ability to partner with senior leaders as a trusted thought partner, contributing analysis, challenging assumptions, and translating strategy into executable plans\nStrong ability to communicate strategic intent and influence decisions, bridging complex workforce, operating-model, and financial considerations with business priorities for stakeholders at all levels\nProven ability to manage confidential, high-sensitivity planning initiatives\nStay up to date on everything Blackbaud, follow us on Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube\nBlackbaud powers social impact through purpose-driven technology and responsible AI. Guided by our Intelligence for Good® vision, we’re building a culture where innovation, trust, and human expertise come together to help organizations make a greater difference in the world.\nBlackbaud is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.\nThe starting base pay is $117,200.00 to $157,500.00. 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