Head of Organizational Planning & Intelligence

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 14

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic leader to join our team as the Sr. Director, Head of Organizational Planning & Intelligence. This pivotal role leads our Workforce Planning, Workforce Strategy, and Talent Marketplace and Skills Intelligence capabilities. This role will partner closely with Organizational Planning & Intelligence, People Analytics, and People Data to leverage data and analytics to inform how we plan and execute our enterprise and divisional business strategies.

Additionally, the Head of OPI and their team will provide internal consulting services to People Partners and business stakeholders, leveraging analytics and OE partners. They will play a critical role in building and implementing consistent frameworks, methodologies, and approaches across the organization to drive excellence and innovation. This is both a hands‑on and leadership position, requiring strong relationship‑building skills with business stakeholders and People Partners (our term for HR Business Partners).

• Lead and oversee the Workforce Planning, Skills COE, Workforce Intelligence capabilities as well as Talent Marketplace product ownership.
• Develop and implement organizational workforce strategies that align with SPGI’s mission and business objectives.
• Provide visionary leadership and serve as trusted advisor on organizational planning initiatives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business leaders, COE leaders, and People Partners.

• Design and establish consistent frameworks, methodologies, and best practices for organizational effectiveness.
• Ensure these frameworks are integrated and utilized across all business units.

• Convert business strategy into funded, governed, and sequenced workforce agendas with clear value targets, consistent with workforce strategic plan and our people strategy and agenda.
• Maximize talent liquidity – move people to work (and work to people) faster than the market by championing and leading the implementation of the talent marketplace and skills intelligence products, inclusive of the design, collaboration, and coordination of skill intelligence, internal mobility strategies, and employee growth opportunities.
• Conduct and integrate research around the future of work at S&P global and how we incorporate progressive people practices and programs into our workforce and people team strategy.
• Deliver Executive and board-level workforce transformation storytelling inclusive of data‑driven insights and best practice research.

• Deliver internal consulting services to People Partners, Finance Partners, and business stakeholders in achieving their people and financial objectives.
• Build organizational health assessments, skill, and work assessments to understand supply and demand talent challenges.
• Define Skills System & provide the single source of truth on skills, roles, and supply‑demand scenarios to guide build / buy / borrow / automate decisions.
• Partner with Org Effectiveness to deliver critical job and work re‑design engagements to support business operating model, process re‑engineering, and org design plans.

• Deliver internal consulting services to People Partners and business stakeholders.
• Leverage internal team capacity or engage external partners to provide specialized expertise when needed.
• Address specific organizational challenges by offering tailored solutions and strategic advice.

• Partner with People Data and People Analytics to leverage data and analytics to inform organizational health and workforce strategy.
• Utilize internal and external workforce data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of initiatives.
• Report on progress, challenges, and successes to senior leadership.

(This section is only applicable to US candidates)

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $136,935 to $257,059. Final base…