Director, Workforce Analytics

About the role

We are seeking a passionate Director of Workforce Analytics to join our global Human Resources organization. This role will provide leadership to the team to ensure high quality, sophisticated analytic results that support organization strategies & human capital planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and integrate the human capital analytics roadmap with the goal of providing strategic solutions that empower key business partners to make data-driven decisions related to each aspect of the employee lifecycle and gain insights to advance human capital objectives within their business function.
• Execute the human capital data strategy for the data domain prioritized to specific business needs.
• Lead team to collaborate with HR business partners, business line leaders and executives to identify and define business use cases for analytic studies, prioritize requests and develop, test and implement sophisticated data analytics and predictive modeling.
• Find opportunities to eliminate duplicate efforts, streamline the way business partners consume data and information to establish a new framework for data governance.
• Control and monitor access to key data elements, monitor data quality and usage.
• Apply expertise to identify issues, opportunities, and root causes. Use data, statistics and visualization to build meaningful insights that deliver value across the function.
• Strive to deliver self-service tools to business partners and business line leaders to enable them to make more informed decisions quicker.
• Lead efforts to support teams across the business function to become more data-centric and drive adoption of the use of new data domains.
• Prepare and synthesize large amounts of data from both internal and external sources into executive level summaries that contain actionable insights.
• Present data in a way that tells a story and helps inform, influence, and support critical decisions.
• Research best-in-class human capital metrics and how to utilize them to measure progress against goals and objectives, keeping current with industry best practices, developing new skills and knowledge sharing.
• Provide strategic thought leadership and effective people leadership to the team through coaching, feedback, work direction and prioritization, and sound performance management practices.
• Act as a champion for the team and remove roadblocks to individual or organizational success.
• Support individual and team career development to ensure enhancement of skills needed to support the analytics needs of the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent 10+ Years' relevant experience
• Experience with statistical programming & modeling (SAS, R, Python, SQL etc.) & data visualization software in a data-rich environment.
• Consistent track record to present/communicate sophisticated, technical materials in a way that facilitates decision making and drives outcomes
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements; ability to communicate to less technical partners to influence outcomes
• Sophisticated PowerPoint and Excel (including business modeling) skills, data visualization skills
• Confirmed ability to apply both strategic and analytic techniques to provide business solutions and recommendations

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Behavior Sciences, Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.
• SAS, SQL Certification
• Workday/Prism Knowledge/experience