Senior Analyst, People Analytics

About us

 

Join National Grid’s digital transformation! We are digital creators, continuous learners and daring innovators. We leverage digital innovative ways to create products and catalyze the transformation of National Grid's business units into more agile and digitally native organizations in our shared purpose of bringing energy to life. Come and join us on this incredible journey, We need you!

Job Purpose

 

Joining our Global People Analytics team, you will play an integral role enabling National Grid to keep pace in the rapidly changing energy sector by growing our workforce and organisational capability and empowering our people for great performance. Within our innovative and collaborative team, we appreciate our people, celebrate diversity, cultivate an inclusive environment and have fun too, as we deliver value for National Grid and the communities we serve.

People Analytics is one of the fastest growing HR disciplines. We are responsible for workforce data, reporting, analytics and workforce planning. We provide critical people insights on diversity, talent, recruiting, learning, reward, head count, attrition, among many others where we trend, forecast, translate and communicate people data into actionable insights for our stakeholders and clients. 

As a Senior People Analytics Analyst you will work independently performing more advanced analytics where you will translate and communicate people data into insights that will drive decision making relating to all thing’s ‘people’. As the ideal candidate you will have strong analytical, consultative, and storytelling skills and thrive managing concurrent projects while working within a global team to drive value driven outcomes.
 

What you'll do

 

•    Work independently delivering our more complex and advanced analytics to provide HR analytics capabilities that drive insight and predictability through people and organizational data which enable leadership and decision-making
•    As an analytics expert you will manage a wide array of stakeholders and consumers of people analytics which include the most senior executives, business leaders, HR Professionals, among others throughout the organization, serving as a credible partner offering high levels of subject matter expertise on HR data, insights, trends, forecasts and workforce centric issues informed by data
•    Utilize advanced analytics, data modeling skills and experience to combine quantitative findings and other inputs providing trending, forecasting, simulations, statistical methods, correlation analysis, among other techniques to derive insights and comprehensive recommendations
•    Approach and execute ad-hoc analytics requests applying innovative and creative data visualization, storytelling and communication that will translate data and complex subject matter into actionable and consumable insights for stakeholders and clients
•    Provide innovative approaches to deliver SQL and Power Bi solutions as part of our exciting digital transformation which automate people analytics products to improve standardization, efficiency, team performance and client self-service capability
•    Deliver and oversee work by the Team with strong attention to detai and the utmost judgment and discretion dealing with highly sensitive people data
•    Afford our team expertise in data models and platforms, such as through ETL tools, SQL stored procedures and techniques, to fulfill work delivery requirements of significant complexity
•    Support capability growth, ‘demystifying’ people data and analytics across community of HR Professionals and the Business, developing skills, knowledge and confidence that will enable business planning and decision making to be informed by people data 
•    Contribute toward the capability growth and performance of our Team by coaching, mentoring and collaborating effectively while contributing to cultivate an inclusive work environment and having some fun too.
 

What you'll need

 

•    Degree level qualification in a quantitative or Industrial Organizational Psychology, Management Information Systems, Business or Data Analytics or related qualifications, advanced level degree preferred
•    Prior 5 years work experience in an Analytics role
•    Prior HR Analytics or related experience strongly desired
•    Advanced skills in Excel, ETL tools and techniques, Power BI and/or other reporting data manipulation tools

 

Technical / Specialist Skills and Experience

 

•    5 years’ experience working as a data analyst, or similar role with advanced technical Excel expertise, ETL tools and techniques, Power BI and/or Tableau or other reporting data manipulation tools
•    Preferred experience with SQL, Statistica