People Team Analyst

Barry-Wehmiller Companies Inc.; St. Louis, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Barry-Wehmill er is seeking a People Team Analyst to be the analytical backbone for talent, organizational design, recruiting, People Analytics, and strategic workforce planning. You will translate strategic questions into rigorous data-driven answers and support the CHRO’s planning with clear insights.

The role partners with leaders across People functions, designing analyses and communicating findings with plain language and visuals to inform enterprise decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or analytically rigorous field.
• 2+ years of experience in data analysis or research.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Basic proficiency in AI tools to enable workflows.
• Familiarity with Power BI or other data visualization tools preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with HRIS systems, especially Workday, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders across People functions to define analytical needs and core business questions.
• Design and conduct analyses using Excel and Power BI to address workforce and organizational questions.
• Support CHRO’s annual strategic planning by analyzing and synthesizing data into insights.
• Translate analytical findings into plain-language narratives and visuals.
• Advise stakeholders on what conclusions data can support and its limits.
• Ensure data accuracy by cleaning and preprocessing HRIS data.
• Maintain dashboards and metrics for workforce indicators across People responsibilities.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Storytelling

Data visualization

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Workday

AI tools

Job description

About Us

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Job Description

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact across the full breadth of our People organization. As a People Team Analyst, you will serve as part of the analytical backbone for our central People functions - including Talent, Organizational Design, Recruiting, People Analytics, and Strategic Workforce Planning - translating strategic questions into clear, data-driven methodology and answers. Each year, you will also play a key role in supporting the CHRO’s annual strategic plan, providing data to ensure our most important people decisions are grounded in rigorous analysis.

About the Role

This role communicates directly with leaders across the People team, helping to define the right questions, then designing the right analyses and communicating back those findings with support from our Leader of Compensation and Workforce Planning. The ideal candidate brings a strong analytical or scientific foundation, the intellectual curiosity to ask “what are we really trying to understand?”, and the communication skills to make that understanding accessible to everyone.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Partner with leaders across People functions to understand their analytical needs, clarify the core business question being asked, and determine what data and methodology is required to answer it.
• Design and conduct analyses - primarily using Excel and Power BI - that address workforce and organizational questions related to talent, recruiting, org design, workforce planning, and broader people strategy.
• Support the CHRO’s annual strategic planning process by compiling, analyzing, and synthesizing people data into insights that inform enterprise-level decisions.
• Translate analytical findings into plain-language narratives and clear visualizations.
• Identify the right analysis and the right question with guidance and support; advise stakeholders on what conclusions the data can and cannot support.
• Ensure data accuracy by cleaning, validating, and preprocessing data from HRIS and other people systems.
• Maintain recurring reports, dashboards, and metrics that track key workforce indicators across the People team’s areas of responsibility.

Job Specifications

• Consultative listening skills to draw out the real question behind a data request and align on what success looks like before the analysis begins.
• Strong analytical reasoning to match the right methodology to the right question, and to know the limits of what the data can and cannot tell us.
• Clear, plain-language communication skills to explain findings to non-technical audiences without oversimplification.
• Storytelling ability to present data in a compelling, structured narrative that leads to a clear recommendation or action.
• Intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity - this role frequently works on questions that don’t yet have a defined answer or a clear path to one.
• Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and integrity.
• Organizational and time management skills to handle concurrent requests from multiple stakeholders.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or analytically rigorous field such as Mathematics, Natural Science, Statistics, Economics, Psychology (research-focused), Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• 2+ years of experience in a data analysis or research role; internship or academic research experience will be considered.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (advanced formulas, visualizations, data modeling).
• Basic proficiency in AI tools to enable workflows (LLM, Agents, etc.)
• Familiarity with Power BI or other data visualization tools preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - experience presenting findings to stakeholders preferred.
• Experience with HRIS systems, especially Workday, is a plus.

Supervisory/Responsibility

Individual contributor with no direct reports #LI-EA1

At Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work—therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodations during the interview process. Barry-Wehmiller is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V This organization uses E-Verify. Applicants may be subject to pre-employment screening which may include drug screening, reference checks, employment verifications, background screening and/or skills assessments.

Company

Bw Corporate Us Throughout Barry-Wehmiller, we hold ourselves to a unique measure of success: by the way we touch the lives of people. It’s that vision that drives us in creating world-class experiences and solutions for our customers and unites us around our common goal—to use the power of our business to build a better world.