Director, People Analytics
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The Director, People Analytics leads the enterprise People Analytics function, owning the strategy, governance, prioritization, and delivery of all workforce analytics and reporting across HR. This role is responsible for establishing and enforcing enterprise data definitions and metric standards, managing analytics demand intake and resource allocation, driving the elimination of duplicative and legacy reporting, and ensuring leaders at every level have trusted, actionable workforce insights to inform talent and organizational decisions.
The function is organized into two complementary pillars — Data Governance & Reporting Standards (led by the Manager, People Reporting & HR Operations Analytics) and Workforce Analytics & Business Insights (led by the Manager, Talent & Workforce Analytics). The Director oversees both pillars, manages a shared pool of Hyderabad-based People Analysts whose day-to-day work is prioritized and funneled through the two managers, and partners with a US-based Senior People Analyst on complex, fast-turn executive requests for the executive leadership team, the HR leadership team, and other senior leadership. This role reports to the VP of Talent Acquisition & Workforce Management.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Enterprise People Analytics Strategy & Roadmap
- 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
Analytics Demand Intake & Resource Allocation
- 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
Executive & HR Leadership Team Decision Support
- 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
Reporting Standardization & Data Governance
- 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
Team Leadership & Shared Resource Oversight
- Lead, de
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