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NTT DATA seeks a senior leader to own global people metrics, governance, and reporting. You will define data standards, manage a semantic layer, and partner with HR, IT, and Finance to deliver trusted, self-serve insights across the organization.
You will lead distributed teams, ensure GDPR compliance, and foster collaboration with Analytics, AI, and business leaders to turn data into decisions. Hybrid working is available.
Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.
Own the global people metrics catalogue: definitions, calculation logic, and ownership for headcount, attrition, hiring, mobility, diversity, and related measures. Lead the move from custom report requests to self-serve reporting, rationalising legacy reports into a small set of governed master reports with role-based access. Own management and executive reporting for People & Culture leadership, the Senior Leadership Team, and Finance, on a consistent monthly and quarterly cadence. Define the reporting dimensions that must hold across every layer: organisation structure, job classification, location, supervisory hierarchy, and grade. Ensure historical trends survive organisation restructures and employee ID changes. Put export guardrails and access controls in place, reducing reliance on uncontrolled data extracts.
Establish and run the people data governance framework: decision rights, data ownership, stewardship, and a clear RACI across People Analytics, HR process owners, IT, and Finance. Own the semantic layer standards and data dictionary for people data. Lead monthly headcount reconciliation with Finance and resolve differences between HR and Finance figures at source. Build a data quality programme with measurable rules, scorecards, root-cause fixes, and accountable owners in the HR process teams. Work with Data Protection and Legal on GDPR and local privacy requirements, including access, retention, and cross-border data use. Maintain documentation, lineage, and change control for reports, metrics, and data pipelines.
Lead and develop a distributed team across both functions, setting clear priorities and standards. Act as the senior counterpart to HRIS, IT data engineering, and Finance on reporting and data decisions, including HRIS programme milestones. Prioritise demand transparently and say no to requests that duplicate governed reporting. Partner with the Analytics and AI teams so advanced analytics builds on governed, reusable data rather than one-off extracts. Build a regular interlock with business and functional leaders to understand their decisions, agree the measures that matter, and turn governed reporting into insight.
Hybrid Working
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.
Equal Opportunity Employer NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category.