[Hiring] Senior Manager, People Analytics @Amentum

Role Description

The Senior Manager, People Analytics is a high-level individual contributor and technical architect responsible for transforming workforce data into a strategic engine - standardizing metrics, enabling predictive insights, and equipping leaders with data to make faster, smarter decisions that drive business results.

This role requires strong project management expertise to architect and execute complex initiatives that span multiple functional areas. With a strong ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, this role will shape the employee experience by fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate People Analytics strategy into actionable, high-impact projects, aligning data initiatives with broader HR and business objectives.
• Translate high-level business questions into sophisticated frameworks; present complex insights and strategic recommendations to senior leadership to influence business outcomes.
• Drive the full analytics lifecycle, including cleansing and transforming structured and unstructured data, building complex models, and creating visualizations that highlight key workforce insights.
• Define top business challenges by conducting stakeholder interviews and maturity assessments, synthesizing findings into discovery themes that shape the analytics roadmap.
• Translate complex data into intuitive, dynamic analytics tools that support strategic workforce planning, talent management, and organizational health metrics.
• Deliver analytics and insights on headcount trends, internal mobility, turnover, and workforce composition.
• Lead the design, development and implementation of scalable HR dashboards, reports, and data visualizations in Workday and PowerBI.
• Responsible for Workday analytics design and delivery - report, dashboard, and discovery board design, development and maintenance.
• Collaborate with Power BI developers to design advanced visualization frameworks, while serving as a backup Power BI data engineer when required.
• Partner with HR and cross-functional teams across the organization to define data requests, approvals, and delivery ensuring data privacy, security, and governance standards are met.
• Directly manage project scopes, deliverables, and timelines for complex analytics initiatives, fostering collaboration and accountability across multiple teams.
• Present actionable insights to varied audiences, including senior leadership and executives, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.

Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in Power BI, Excel, and SQL for reporting and analysis.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage trade-offs and make critical decisions for driving business outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage and present to stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
• Strong organizational skills with a proven ability to manage multiple projects while balancing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Deep understanding of data governance principles, HR data compliance, and data privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Statistics, Organizational Psychology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Typically 12+ years of experience in workforce analytics, including data analysis, modeling, and reporting.
• Strong experience in Power BI, Excel, and SQL for reporting and analysis.
• Proven experience managing and delivering complex projects across multiple functional areas, with expertise in scoping, planning, and delivering on timelines and objectives.
• Demonstrated experience in Workday reporting (reports, dashboards, and discovery boards).
• Expertise in data visualization, creation of creative presentations and reporting tools.
• US Citizenship is required.

Compensation Details

The compensation range or hourly rate listed for this position is provided as a good-faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role at the time this posting was issued. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)
• Educational reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tax-saving options
• Disability and life insurance
• Pet insurance