Head of People Analytics, Insights & AI Strategy

BD Mexico; Franklin Lakes (NJ); On-site; USD 154,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus

BD 401(k) Plan

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

BD is seeking a Senior Manager of People Analytics, Insights & AI to lead strategic analytics initiatives and change management across HR and business leaders. The role blends deep analytics with business partnership to drive workforce decisions and performance, reporting to the Director of “People Analytics and Insights”.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in predictive modeling, data storytelling, and building scalable analytics in a complex HR environment, with a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience combining HR knowledge, business partnership, and hands-on analytics.
• 5+ years of people or workforce analytics experience with large, complex datasets (may run concurrently with HR experience below)
• 5+ years of applied HR experience across talent acquisition, performance management, compensation, or organizational effectiveness (may overlap with analytics experience above)
• Demonstrated experience leading or influencing analytics teams, through direct management or senior individual contributor team leadership
• Proven track record of driving adoption of analytics tools or insights – including change management, stakeholder engagement, and sustained behavior change.
• Experience developing business cases and articulating ROI for analytics solutions in terms that resonate with senior HR and business leaders.
• Advanced proficiency in Power BI – dashboard development, DAX, data modeling, and administration.
• Experience with predictive modeling, regression, clustering, classification, and applied statistics.
• Experience with Workday reporting or equivalent enterprise HR systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior HR and business leaders to frame complex workforce challenges as analytical problems with clear, data-driven answers connected to business outcomes.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR Business Partners, equipping them with workforce insights and decision support tools that strengthen their strategic impact.
• Translate analytical findings into compelling narratives that anchor the “so what” in business terms for non-technical audiences, including VPs and Senior Directors.
• Proactively identify where people’s analytics can add measurable value and develop structured cases that articulate the problem, solution, and expected impact.
• Lead the design and delivery of advanced analytics solutions including predictive modeling, workforce segmentation, attrition risk, talent pipeline assessment, and organizational effectiveness indicators.
• Apply statistical techniques – regression, machine learning, clustering, hypothesis testing – to translate ambiguous business questions into reliable, actionable insights.
• Deliver operational talent reports and KPI scorecards with data-driven narratives that are clear, interpretable, and decision-ready for leadership audiences.
• Collaborate with data engineering and IT partners to integrate HR data from multiple sources and build scalable analytics solutions within BD’s data environment.
• Maintain rigorous standards for data quality, integrity, governance, and documentation across all key HR datasets.
• Own the adoption of people analytics tools and insights across HR and the business – ensuring solutions are understood, trusted, and actively used in decision-making, not just delivered.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Business partnership

Advanced analytics

Change management

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, I/O Psychology, HR Management, or Business Analytics, or a related discipline

Master’s degree in HR, STEM, Business/People Analytics

Tools

Power BI

DAX

Data modeling

Administration

Workday reporting

Job description

BD is seeking a Senior Manager of People Analytics, Insights & AI to lead strategic analytics initiatives and change management across HR and business leaders. The role blends deep analytics with business partnership to drive workforce decisions and performance, reporting to the Director of “People Analytics and Insights”.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in predictive modeling, data storytelling, and building scalable analytics in a complex HR environment, with a strong emphasis on