Senior Analyst, Workforce Intelligence

Fortive; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortive is seeking a Sr Analyst, Workforce Intelligence to partner with Talent Partners and HR teams. You will transform employee listening, workforce, and organizational data into actionable insights and recommendations using advanced analytics and AI-enabled approaches to support enterprise decision-making.

Responsibilities include defining the listening strategy, building scalable analytics, and delivering dashboards and insights to leaders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years in data analytics with focus on people/workforce analytics or related areas.
• Experience translating findings into actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
• Strong analytical skills: statistics, trend analysis, data visualization, evidence integration.
• Experience applying AI-enabled analytical tools with responsible oversight.
• Experience delivering executive dashboards and decision-support materials.

Responsibilities

• Establish and improve Fortive's Workforce Intelligence operating model, services, governance, and delivery standards.
• Define and deliver a portfolio of workforce intelligence products, insights, resources, and support for Talent Partners and HRBPs.
• Develop scalable methodologies, tools, and self-service resources, including AI-enabled intelligence products.
• Partner with HR Technology, HR Operations, and data owners to improve data quality, usability, and reporting effectiveness.
• Own Fortive's employee listening strategy, governance, and insight generation.
• Analyze workforce trends and employee sentiment to identify opportunities, risks, and root causes.
• Translate complex findings into practical recommendations for leaders to take targeted action.

Skills

Data analytics

Employee listening

Stakeholder management

Dashboards

AI-powered analytics

Data visualization

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Python

Job description

The Sr Analyst, Workforce Intelligence serves as the analytics and insights partner to Fortive Talent Partners and OpCo HR teams. The role transforms employee listening, workforce, talent, organization, and work data into actionable insights and recommendations, leveraging advanced analytics and AI-enabled approaches to improve the speed, scale, and quality of insight generation, enabling, better talent, workforce, and organizational decisions.

The role is responsible for Fortive's employee listening strategy and workforce intelligence capability, including the processes, methodologies, reporting, and resources that support enterprise and OpCo decision-making. Through analysis of workforce trends, employee sentiment, organizational effectiveness, skills, automation, and future workforce needs, the role helps Talent Partners, HRBPs, and leaders identify risks, evaluate options, and prioritize actions.

OPERATING MODEL

• EMPLOYEE LISTENING & EXPERIENCE INSIGHT
• PEOPLE & ORGANIZATION INTELLIGENCE
• GOVERNANCE, PRODUCTS & ENABLEMENT
• Own the listening strategy and convert employee feedback into potential action.
• Connect people, work, organization, and technology data to illuminate decisions.
• Create scalable standards, resources, and clear enterprise service commitments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE & OPERATING MODEL

• Establish and continuously improve Fortive's Workforce Intelligence operating model, including services, governance, delivery standards, and stakeholder expectations.
• Define and deliver a clear portfolio of workforce intelligence products, insights, resources, and support for Talent Partners and HRBPs.
• Develop scalable methodologies, tools, and self-service resources that strengthen data-driven decision making across Fortive, including AI-enabled intelligence products and analytical approaches that improve insight generation, pattern detection, forecasting.
• Partner with HR Technology, HR Operations, and data owners to improve data quality, usability, and reporting effectiveness.

EMPLOYEE LISTENING & ORGANIZATIONAL INSIGHT

• Own Fortive's employee listening strategy, including listening priorities, survey and pulse programs, governance, reporting, and insight generation.
• Partner with VP, Talent Planning & Capability as well as Talent Partners to identify critical workforce questions and translate business needs into focused listening and analytical plans.
• Analyze employee sentiment, engagement, retention, organizational health, and workforce trends to identify opportunities, risks, and root causes.
• Translate complex findings into practical recommendations that enable Talent Partners and HRBPs to take targeted action with business leaders.

WORKFORCE & ORGANIZATION ANALYTICS

• Generate enterprise and OpCo insights across workforce, talent, skills, succession, mobility, performance, and employee experience data.
• Provide Talent Partners and HRBPs with data-driven recommendations that inform talent reviews, workforce planning, succession discussions, organizational effectiveness, and capability decisions.
• Apply AI-enabled and advanced analytical techniques to synthesize structured and unstructured workforce data, identify emerging patterns and risks, develop scenarios, and generate decision-relevant insights.
• Analyze organization and work patterns to inform organization design, workforce productivity, automation, AI adoption, and capability planning.
• Integrate multiple data sources into dashboards, reporting, and advanced analyses that enable better talent, workforce, and business decisions.

SCOPE & DECISION RIGHTS

OWNS

• Enterprise employee listening strategy
• Workforce Intelligence methods, standards, resources, and service commitments
• Analytical quality, interpretation, validation, and responsible use of AI-enabled workforce intelligence methods

INFLUENCES

• Employee experience and organizational effectiveness priorities
• Workforce, organization design, automation, and capability choices
• Talent, workforce planning, and action priorities
• Data and technology requirements

DOES NOT OWN

• Employee listening platforms or HR technology
• OpCo talent, workforce, or organization strategy
• Business staffing, organization design, or automation decisions
• Enterprise HR data governance outside the role's scope
• Leaders’ accountability for workforce and employee outcomes

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in industrial-organizational psychology, organizational research, analytics, data science, economics, human resources, or a related discipline preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in data analytics with a preference for people or workforce analytics, employee listening, organizational research, workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, consulting, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience managing employee listening or survey programs preferred, as well as translating quantitative and qualitative findings into practical action.
• Strong analytical capability, including statistical analysis, trend identification, data visualization, and integration of multiple forms of evidence.
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI-enabled analytical tools and methods to workforce or business questions, combined with the judgment to validate outputs, recognize limitations, protect sensitive information, and ensure responsible human oversight.
• Experience developing executive-level dashboards, reports, and decision-support materials that make complex topics clear and actionable.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, project management, and influencing skills, with the ability to establish credibility with senior leaders and diverse HR partners.
• Experience operating effectively in a global, matrixed environment and handling sensitive workforce and employee information with sound judgment and discretion.

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Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.

We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

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Bonus or Equity

This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.

Pay Range

The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 99,600.00 - 166,300.00