Director, People Analytics

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise people analytics roadmap aligned to business priorities and HR Leadership Team and Executive Leadership information needs
• Establish analytics governance, standards, and operating principles that ensure ‘one version of the truth’ across all workforce metrics
• Drive long-term reduction of analytics cost, reporting technical debt, and duplicative reporting across HR
• Own enterprise analytics demand intake, prioritization, and tradeoff decisions across competing stakeholder requests
• Establish clear intake processes that distinguish between standard reporting, ad hoc analysis, and strategic insight requests
• Allocate shared pool capacity and Sr. People Analyst bandwidth to highest-impact work while managing stakeholder expectations
• Deliver proactive workforce insights and analysis to the executive leadership team, HR leadership team, and other senior leadership
• Translate complex, ambiguous workforce questions into clear, actionable insights that accelerate decisions
• Provide analytical storytelling that connects people data to business outcomes
• Own enterprise data definitions, metric governance, and exception management
• Drive report inventory, rationalization, and retirement to eliminate legacy reporting debt
• Partner with HRIS, Finance, and Enterprise Analytics to align workforce data architecture and ensure Workday serves as the trusted system of record
• Lead, develop, and performance manage the People Analytics team across US-based and Hyderabad-based resources
• Oversee the shared pool model — ensuring the two managers effectively prioritize and funnel work to Hyderabad-based People Analysts without direct stakeholder bypass
• Mentor managers, resolve prioritization conflicts between the two pillars, and ensure scalable, consistent analytics delivery

Education Qualifications

• 4 Year Degree / Bachelor’s in Analytics, Data Science, Business, Economics, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, or related field
• MBA or MS in Analytics or related graduate degree

Experience Qualifications

• 10+ years in analytics
• Including 5+ years leading analytics teams with management of distributed or offshore resources
• Demonstrated experience establishing analytics governance, reporting standards, and data strategy in a complex organization
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders with data-driven insights and recommendations
• Multi-brand, multi-site, or large enterprise experience strongly preferred

Required Knowledge, Skills or Abilities

• HRIS platforms (Workday required), Power BI (required), Excel, and data visualization tools
• Executive communication, analytical storytelling, and stakeholder influence
• Data governance, metric standardization, and reporting architecture
• Strategic prioritization and tradeoff management
• Strong business acumen with ability to connect workforce analytics to business outcomes