# Strategic Initiatives Consultant

**Company**: Southern Company
**Location**: Atlanta, GA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

As a Strategic Initiatives Consultant, you will partner across HR, workforce analytics, and strategic workforce planning to turn workforce insights into clear, practical guidance.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Partner across HR, workforce analytics, and strategic workforce planning teams to support enterprise people priorities and strengthen data-informed decision-making.

- Assist with translating workforce data, planning outputs, and business trends into clear implications, practical guidance, and decision-ready insights.

- Help guide HR partners in understanding and applying workforce dashboards, tools, standards, and insights in a consistent and meaningful way.

- Co-design and deliver training, job aids, and resources that build HR confidence in using workforce data and telling clear workforce stories.

- Support and co-facilitate workforce planning, talent, leadership, and strategy discussions where workforce insights are shared and applied.

- Synthesize workforce trends across business areas to support consistent people data narratives and broader enterprise workforce insights.

- Gather feedback from HR partners on tool usability, adoption challenges, resources, training, and ongoing enablement support.

- Identify opportunities to simplify processes, encourage consistent use of tools and resources, and support clear ways of working across HR.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, or a related field

- Five or more years of experience in HR consulting, workforce planning, workforce analytics, organizational effectiveness, or related HR or business support roles

- Experience supporting cross-functional HR, workforce planning, analytics, or business initiatives

- Strong critical thinking, business judgment, and ability to translate workforce information into clear, practical guidance

- Strong relationship-building, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to support varied audiences through a consultative approach

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and comfort learning Microsoft Copilot or similar workplace technology tools

- Ability to work a hybrid schedule with at least four days per week in the office to support partnership with HR and business leaders and strengthen working relationships.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience working with workforce analytics, HR data dashboards, or strategic workforce planning concepts

- Experience developing or delivering training, resources, or enablement materials for HR audiences

- Experience supporting change adoption, process improvement, or consistent ways of working across HR teams, business areas, or locations

- Experience in the utility industry or a similarly complex, regulated business environment

## Skills

### Required
- HR consulting
- workforce planning
- workforce analytics
- organizational effectiveness
- Microsoft Office Suite
- critical thinking
- business judgment
- relationship-building
- communication
- facilitation

### Nice to have
- HR data dashboards
- strategic workforce planning concepts
- training development
- change adoption
- process improvement

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