**Executive Director - Workforce Analytics & Business Intelligence** drives strategic insights and scalable BI products, serving as a trusted HR and business advisor. This role unites executive-facing insights with analytics products, enhancing decision-making in retention, mobility, and talent allocation. Key responsibilities include strategic advisory, data-driven narrative creation, solution delivery, and stakeholder communication. Ideal candidate offers 10+ years of experience leading analytics strategy in large, global organizations, with a track record delivering enterprise-grade analytics and executive insights. Cloud-based BI solutions experience, strong executive presence, and data governance expertise are essential. Preferred qualifications include master's degree, HR team collaboration, and hands-on experience with modern visualization platforms.
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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
As an Executive Director - Workforce Analytics & Business Intelligence within our Workforce Analytics function, you will unite executive-facing insights with scalable BI products and governed self-service reporting. You will help leaders understand patterns and risks across areas such as retention, mobility, performance, succession, and talent allocation through decision-ready narratives and materials. You will partner closely with data and platform teams to strengthen data quality, lineage, entitlements, and compliance across analytics solutions. You will set clear operating mechanisms for intake, prioritization, delivery, and adoption, and you will track and communicate impact through defined success metrics.Job responsibilities
Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to Human Resources and business executives by translating priorities into clear analytics agendas and actionable recommendationsLead end-to-end delivery across executive advisory insights, dashboards and BI products, and self-service enablementDrive proactive analytics that identify workforce patterns, risks, and opportunities, and shape narratives that influence decisions and actionsOversee development and continuous improvement of governed self-service analytics capabilitiesTranslate complex business questions into scalable technical solutions, including reusable data products, semantic layers, and metrics definitionsPartner with data and platform teams to ensure strong data quality, lineage, access entitlements, and compliance across analytics solutionsCollaborate with AI and Data Science partners to operationalize advanced analytics into practical workflows and consumable BI experiencesEstablish operating mechanisms for intake, prioritization, delivery, and stakeholder communicationMonitor solution performance, adoption, and user feedback to drive continuous improvementTrack, quantify, and communicate business impact through defined success metrics and outcome reportingRequired qualifications, capabilities, and skills
10+ years of experience leading analytics, business intelligence, and data-promoten strategy in a large, complex, global organizationDemonstrated success delivering enterprise-grade analytics products and executive advisory insightsProven ability to lead through influence and drive alignment across senior stakeholders in a matrixed environmentStrong executive presence with the ability to synthesize quantitative findings into clear, decision-ready narratives and recommendationsExperience designing and delivering modern BI and self-service analytics solutions in cloud environmentsTechnical fluency in data integration concepts, semantic layer and metrics design, and scalable analytics delivery patternsExperience implementing data governance and controls, including data integrity, security, and appropriate access managementStrong stakeholder management, prioritization, and program execution skills in high-visibility environmentsBachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a related field (or equivalent experience) ED - BI - CDAO.docxPreferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Masters degree in a related field (or equivalent experience)Experience partnering with Human Resources teams on workforce and talent analytics use casesHands-on experience with modern visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, Sigma) and dashboard/UX best practicesExperience integrating BI tools with cloud data platforms (Databricks experience preferred)Experience operationalizing predictive analytics or pattern-recognition outputs into day-to-day decision workflowsExperience building governed self-service enablement programs, including training, adoption, and usage measurement Lead a workforce analytics team to deliver trusted insights, expand self service reporting, and improve talent outcomes 
