Marketplace Operations Manager – Capacity Planning
Wheel
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $99,000 - $142,000 per year
About the role
- Build & own capacity models including all volume and staffing forecasts
- Pull and analyze large datasets from WFM tools, operational systems, and product data
- Identify the real drivers of demand, variability, and risk
- Validate assumptions using strong statistical and analytical methods
- Support the Director of Marketplace in delivering staffing strategies, hiring plans and financial budgets
- Support scheduling, monitoring and day to day operations
- Model complex demand patterns, SLAs, productivity, shrinkage, and multi-skill workforces
- Manage WFM software configuration and forecasting
- Build capacity models using Python, R, and SQL
- Create reusable modeling frameworks that scale across clients while allowing customization
- Apply time-series forecasting, regression, simulation, or optimization techniques where they add value
- Build scenario and sensitivity models to support growth planning, launches, and rapid change
- Automate repeatable analysis and reduce manual planning work
- Work directly with stakeholders and clients to deeply understand their workflows and constraints
- Clearly explain tradeoffs between cost, service level, and flexibility
- Turn complex or evolving requirements into defensible analysis that drives actionable recommendations
- Partner with Finance and Marketplace leadership to support budgeting and clinician pay activities
- Wheel is a 24/7 operation and may require occasional off hours support
Requirements
- 5+ years in capacity planning, workforce management, or operational analytics
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Power Query (M), R
- Proven ability to build custom capacity or forecasting models (not just configure tools)
- Comfort working with imperfect data and evolving requirements
- Strong communication skills—you can explain complex models to non-technical audiences
- Experience working on Operations teams
- Bias toward action, ownership, and continuous improvement
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- Ancillary: Life, Short and Long Term Disability
- 401K match
- Flexible PTO
- Parental Leave
- Stock options
- Additional programs and perks
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
capacity planningworkforce managementoperational analyticsstatistical methodsanalytical methodstime-series forecastingregressionsimulationoptimization techniquesdata analysis
Soft Skills
strong communication skillsownershipcontinuous improvementability to explain complex modelspartnering with stakeholdersproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaborationbias toward actionunderstanding workflows