Senior Analyst, Global Analytics and Workforce Planning

Overview

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This role strengthens Bain’s Global People Analytics (GPA) and Global Workforce Planning (WFP) teams by serving as a key analytics, reporting, and insights partner across strategic talent acquisition and workforce planning processes. Responsibilities include partnering closely with internal customers across a varied range of stakeholder groups (Global/Regional Talent Acquisition leadership, global/regional Talent/HR/Ops and Finance teams, local Recruiting teams, and others) to translate use cases and decision needs into reporting requirements, dashboards, and data products.

This position will play a critical role in delivering Bain's Talent Acquisition strategic priorities related to delivering standardized, flexible reporting and enabling stakeholder insights. The role will also support Workforce Planning initiatives focused on further developing our headcount planning and reporting capabilities and driving strategic capacity decisions.

What you’ll do (grouped by area)

• Support Talent Acquisition Visier product design & development (25%)
  • Support alignment on global/regional use cases and reporting strategy
  • Work with stakeholder groups (global/regional/local) to define reporting use cases across existing product ecosystem
  • Partner with Visier product owner and technical teams to translate stakeholder needs into dashboard requirements
  • Support dashboard/product design
  • Develop training and user materials, comms and launch plans for new reports
• Support Talent Acquisition stakeholder management & front-line user engagement (25%)
  • In collaboration with Director, drive alignment on recruiting processes, data definitions, and reporting methodology across regions and stakeholder groups
  • Independently collect reporting requirements from stakeholders and partner with product team to translate into plans for new or improved reports
  • Iterate with stakeholders (global, regional and local talent acquisition/recruiting teams) on planned reports to ensure alignment on final deliverables
  • Engage with TA and recruiting stakeholders on priorities and existing reporting processes/use cases/needs, and collaborate with product team on report design and prioritization
  • Work with stakeholder to validate data and new report accuracy, usability, and relevance
  • Proactively build collaborative relationships with TA customers to ensure continuous feedback on Visier product functionality and identify opportunities for enhancements
• Support Workforce Planning data analytics and insight generation (30%)
  • Support workforce planning team on data analysis and insights generation across the key annual headcount cycles (e.g. tracking performance vs plan, plan development and pressure testing)
  • Help workforce planning team answer critical business questions by bringing the right data and insights
  • Translate business questions into detailed reporting specifications and dashboard designs
  • Support optimization of data pull and transformation processes to support insight generation (e.g. automate regular reporting processes, combine data across sources, compare across versions)
  • Identify opportunities to streamline processes, increase automation, and reduce manual reporting effort
  • Contribute to refining global workforce planning frameworks, processes, and reporting
• Support the development of Workforce Planning reporting on recruiting fill rates, flexibility and “forward capacity” (10%)
  • Support key aspects of the work including providing design input and help implement new tools to gather information…