People Team Analyst

About the role

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Job Description

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact across the full breadth of our People organization. As a People Team Analyst, you will serve as part of the analytical backbone for our central People functions - including Talent, Organizational Design, Recruiting, People Analytics, and Strategic Workforce Planning - translating strategic questions into clear, data-driven methodology and answers. Each year, you will also play a key role in supporting the CHRO’s annual strategic plan, providing data to ensure our most important people decisions are grounded in rigorous analysis.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Partner with leaders across People functions to understand their analytical needs, clarify the core business question being asked, and determine what data and methodology is required to answer it.
• Design and conduct analyses - primarily using Excel and Power BI - that address workforce and organizational questions related to talent, recruiting, org design, workforce planning, and broader people strategy.
• Support the CHRO’s annual strategic planning process by compiling, analyzing, and synthesizing people data into insights that inform enterprise-level decisions.
• Translate analytical findings into plain-language narratives and clear visualizations.
• Identify the right analysis and the right question with guidance and support; advise stakeholders on what conclusions the data can and cannot support.
• Ensure data accuracy by cleaning, validating, and preprocessing data from HRIS and other people systems.
• Maintain recurring reports, dashboards, and metrics that track key workforce indicators across the People team’s areas of responsibility.

Job Specifications

• Consultative listening skills to draw out the real question behind a data request and align on what success looks like before the analysis begins.
• Strong analytical reasoning to match the right methodology to the right question, and to know the limits of what the data can and cannot tell us.
• Clear, plain-language communication skills to explain findings to non-technical audiences without oversimplification.
• Storytelling ability to present data in a compelling, structured narrative that leads to a clear recommendation or action.
• Intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity - this role frequently works on questions that don’t yet have a defined answer or a clear path to one.
• Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and integrity.
• Organizational and time management skills to handle concurrent requests from multiple stakeholders.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or analytically rigorous field such as Mathematics, Natural Science, Statistics, Economics, Psychology (research-focused), Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• 2+ years of experience in a data analysis or research role; internship or academic research experience will be considered.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (advanced formulas, visualizations, data modeling).
• Basic proficiency in AI tools to enable workflows (LLMs, Agents, etc.).
• Familiarity with Power BI or other data visualization tools preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - experience presenting findings to stakeholders preferred.
• Experience with HRIS systems, especially Workday, is a plus.

Supervisory/Responsibility

Individual contributor with no direct reports