People Analytics & Workforce Intelligence Lead

Overview

The People Analytics & Workforce Intelligence Lead plays a critical role in building an integrated, insightdriven workforce analytics capability that enables effective execution of People and Workforce Strategy.

This role shifts the organisation from fragmented, activitybased reporting to coherent, decisionrelevant workforce intelligence, leveraging Oracle HCM data, dashboards, and AIenabled techniques. It ensures highquality, evidencebased insights that support senior leaders in making informed decisions on workforce structure, capability, and cost.

By partnering with HR, Finance, Strategy, and Technology teams, the role drives standardisation, improves data confidence, and delivers forwardlooking workforce intelligence aligned to business priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Workforce Analytics & Insight

• Deliver integrated workforce and people analytics that enable evidencebased decisionmaking aligned to People and Workforce Strategy.
• Generate actionable insights across workforce structure, roles, capacity, productivity, skills, and costs, moving beyond descriptive reporting.
• Translate complex, multisource datasets into clear, executiveready narratives and recommendations.

Workforce Data Integration & Intelligence

• Integrate workforce data across HR systems, Finance, and other people data sources to create a single, aligned view of workforce intelligence.
• Align metrics, assumptions, and reporting standards across HR, Finance, and Strategy to drive shared understanding.
• Partner closely with Finance to connect workforce and cost analytics with financial planning and performance management.

Dashboarding & Reporting Transformation

• Design, build, and maintain integrated workforce analytics dashboards using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent.
• Drive the shift toward dashboardled analytics, reducing fragmented, manual reporting.
• Ensure dashboards are intuitive, standardised, and tailored for senior leadership decisionmaking with clear data definitions.
• Continuously measure and improve dashboard adoption, usability, and business impact.

Reporting Simplification & Optimisation

• Lead the rationalisation and simplification of workforce reporting, eliminating duplication and lowvalue outputs.
• Replace activitybased reporting with insightdriven, decisionfocused analytics.
• Establish a scalable and efficient analytics framework across the People function.

Advanced Analytics, Automation & AI Enablement

• Apply AIenabled techniques and automation to enhance the speed, consistency, and quality of insight generation.
• Use advanced analytics to surface trends, patterns, and forwardlooking workforce intelligence, while ensuring practical and businessaligned application.
• Support workforce initiatives and strategic programmes through structured, predictive insights.

Data Governance & Quality Stewardship

• Establish and maintain clear definitions, standards, and governance for workforce analytics (especially within Oracle HCM environments).
• Improve confidence in workforce data through transparency of methodologies, assumptions, and calculations.
• Act as a steward of highquality, decisionready workforce insight across the organisation.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner with senior HR leaders, Finance, and Strategy teams to support workforce strategy execution.
• Enable selfservice insights where appropriate while guiding stakeholders on data interpretation.
• Support key workforce planning and organisational initiatives through insightled collaboration.

Skills Required:

• Demonstrated ability in data storytelling-translating complex datasets into clear, actionable, leadershipready insights.
• 7-10 years experience in People Analytics, Workforce Analytics, HR Analytics, or Business Intelligence roles, preferably in complex or matrixed environments.
• Knowledge of Oracle HCM data modules including OTBI, BI Publisher, and FDI.
• Proven experience in designing and delivering dashboardled workforce analytics solutions (Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools).
• Advanced analytical capability using Excel, SQL, and BI platforms.
• Demonstrated ability in data storytelling-translating complex datasets into clear, actionable, leadershipready insights.
• Experience leveraging automation and AI-enabled analytics techniques to enhance reporting and insight generation.
• Strong understanding of workforce concepts including capacity, productivity, performance, costs, roles, and skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive adoption of standardised, insight-driven analytics practices.