OD Partner – Workforce Planning & Economics

Dyson Institute; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute in Kuala Lumpur seeks an experienced OD Partner – Workforce Planning & Economics to lead cost modelling, forecasting, and workforce analytics. You will build investment models, scenario analyses, and dashboards to inform leaders on people spend and capacity across the organization.

You will apply advanced analytics using Python and SQL, develop scalable planning tools, and partner with HR Tech, IT, Finance, and People Analytics to mature enterprise workforce planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of experience in Data Analytics.
• Experience with enterprise HR systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead workforce economics, costing, and investment models.
• Design scalable workforce planning dashboards and data workflows.
• Provide executive-ready insights and recommendations.
• Support long-, mid-, and short-term workforce planning.

Skills

Python

SQL

Advanced Excel

Data Analytics

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Bachelor's in Economics/Data Science/Statistics/Finance/CS/Math

Tools

PowerBI

Tableau

Enterprise HR systems

Job description

About Us

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. We’re growing fast and our ambition is huge – more categories, more locations and more people. Pioneering technology takes more than just inventive engineers. At Dyson, we take a problem-solving approach to everything we do. And across our support teams, we’re proud to be different. And importantly, we support change to maintain our rapid growth. Our People team are responsible for activating our unique philosophy and values to deliver a truly Dyson people experience. It’s essential that we attract and hire the best talent and retain them to build a solid foundation for our future growth. And our rapid growth means the organisation feels fast-moving, constantly changing, so there’s opportunity to make a difference and influence the right change.

Role Summary

In your role as OD Partner – Workforce Planning & Economics you will lead workforce economics, workforce planning and workforce intelligence activities that enable leaders to make informed organizational and people investment decisions. You will analyze and optimize people costing and develop costing forecasting models, workforce scenarios, and predictive insights that optimize workforce allocation, organizational design, capability planning, and business performance.

Key responsibilities

• Build workforce economics, people cost, and investment models that assess affordability, productivity, workforce allocation, location strategy, and return on workforce investment.
• Run scenario, sensitivity, and simulation analysis to quantify the organizational, operational, and financial impact of growth, restructuring, automation, skills, and transformation decisions.
• Design and automate scalable workforce planning dashboards, tools, data workflows, and decision-support solutions in partnership with HR Technology, IT, People Analytics, and Finance.
• Support enterprise strategic workforce planning across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons, ensuring workforce plans are aligned to business strategy, financial plans, capability priorities, and organizational requirements.
• Develop workforce demand and supply forecasts by function, geography, capability, and organizational unit to identify workforce risks, capacity constraints, and future talent requirements.
• Apply advanced analytics, statistical methods, Python, SQL, and machine learning techniques to workforce datasets, translating complex analysis into clear executive insights and recommendations.
• Provide executive decision support through workforce scorecards, investment recommendations, governance materials, and evidence-based challenge of assumptions in senior forums.
• Establish planning methodologies, governance standards, tools, and capability-building approaches that mature enterprise workforce planning and workforce economics practice across HR and the business.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of experience in Data Analytics.
• Experience with enterprise HR systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Data Science, Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
• Experience in workforce planning, workforce analytics, people analytics, financial planning, strategy, consulting, data science, or organizational effectiveness.
• Demonstrated experience building workforce forecasts, scenarios, cost models, or capacity models.
• Hands‑on programming capability in Python and SQL, including data preparation, analysis, and model development.
• Experience working with large datasets, visualization tools, and enterprise data or HR technology platforms.
• Demonstrated experience building workforce forecasts, scenarios, cost models, or capacity models.
• Experience in a global, matrixed organization.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with PowerBI, Tableau, or a comparable visualization tool.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to connect workforce decisions with cost, productivity, capability, and business outcomes.
• Ability to communicate technical analysis to non-technical audiences
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex data to non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, communication, consulting, written communication, and presentation skills. .

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity. At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.