People Insights Analyst: Drive Workforce Insights

Mercury; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 days leave

Home office grant

Discounted health insurance

Life & income insurance

Well-being programme

Gender affirmation leave

Bereavement leave

Job summary

Mercury is hiring a People Insights Analyst to turn workforce data into actionable decisions. You’ll own analytics across the PX portfolio, build dashboards, and partner with people leaders to explain trends and take action.

Join a future-focused team in Auckland, focusing on data quality, literacy and impactful insights for our people and business. This is a permanent, full-time on-site role in New Zealand.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years' experience in an analyst role (People Insights, Data, Business, Commercial or HR Analyst)
• Solid grounding in statistics or analytical techniques
• Confidence with SQL to extract, transform and analyse data from multiple sources
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau or OBIEE
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills
• Self-starter mindset with ownership of a portfolio of work
• Trustworthy handling of confidential people data
• HR or people-data experience is a bonus, not a must-have

Responsibilities

• Analysing workforce and employee experience data to spot trends, risks and opportunities — and turning that into clear, practical insights for PX and business leaders
• Applying analytical and statistical techniques to test ideas and uncover what's really driving the numbers
• Building and maintaining dashboards, reports and visualisations that make workforce data easy to understand and act on
• Extracting, validating and preparing data from HR systems (like PayGlobal and SnapHire) and other PX sources
• Partnering with stakeholders to understand their questions, shape the right analytical approach, and manage a portfolio of recurring and ad hoc work
• Helping lift data literacy across PX by explaining metrics, assumptions and limitations in plain language

Skills

SQL

Data visualization

Excel

Statistical techniques

HR analytics

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

OBIEE

Job description

Mercury is hiring a People Insights Analyst to turn workforce data into actionable decisions. You’ll own analytics across the PX portfolio, build dashboards, and partner with people leaders to explain trends and take action.

Join a future-focused team in Auckland, focusing on data quality, literacy and impactful insights for our people and business. This is a permanent, full-time on-site role in New Zealand.