Strategic Talent Analytics & Insights Partner

NTT DATA, Inc.; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. in Johannesburg seeks a Talent Analytics & Insights Business Partner to manage analytics demand, reporting, and data quality across the Talent Analytics portfolio. You will translate business needs into data requirements and trusted metrics while partnering with IT Data COE to deliver actionable insights.

You will lead stakeholder engagement, prioritise analytics requests, and support governance of talent metrics and data definitions, enabling self-service analytics adoption.

Qualifications

• Experience in people analytics, HR reporting, business analysis, or analytics product support.
• Experience engaging business stakeholders to understand reporting, analytics, data, or insight requirements.
• Experience translating business needs into reporting requirements, dashboards, data definitions, user stories, or analytics deliverables.
• Exposure to Snowflake and SAP analytics tools is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Manage business engagement for Talent Analytics and Insights across P&C / HR stakeholder groups.
• Act as the primary link between business stakeholders and the IT Data COE for talent analytics, operational reporting, data requirements, and data quality.
• Gather, analyse, document, and prioritise business requirements for reporting, dashboards, analytics products, and insights use cases.
• Translate business questions into data requirements, reporting logic, KPI definitions, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage the talent analytics demand portfolio, prioritising requests by business value, urgency, feasibility, data readiness, and strategic alignment.
• Oversee operational reporting requirements, including recurring reports, leadership packs, workforce insights, and management information.
• Support the definition and governance of Talent metrics, reporting standards, business rules, data definitions, and insight interpretation.
• Manage data quality requirements, including identifying data gaps, tracking issues, coordinating remediation, and validating improvements.
• Partner with IT Data COE, data engineers, reporting developers, product owners, and system owners to ensure datasets and reporting outputs meet business needs.
• Support the use of Snowflake, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP People Intelligence, and other analytics technologies from a business requirements perspective.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, report validation, data reconciliation, and business sign-off for analytics deliverables.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes, reduce manual effort, standardise metrics, and increase self-service analytics adoption.
• Educate stakeholders on new analytics methods, data models, dashboards, trends, and insight capabilities.
• Monitor adoption, user feedback, data quality trends, and business satisfaction to improve Talent Analytics and Insights services.
• Ensure analytics outputs align with privacy, data security, access control, and responsible employee data use requirements.

Skills

Talent analytics

People & Culture

Stakeholder engagement

Data quality

Data governance

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business

Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics

Business Analysis certifications

SAP Analytics Cloud certification

Tools

Snowflake

SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP People Intelligence

Power BI

Job description

NTT DATA, Inc. in Johannesburg seeks a Talent Analytics & Insights Business Partner to manage analytics demand, reporting, and data quality across the Talent Analytics portfolio. You will translate business needs into data requirements and trusted metrics while partnering with IT Data COE to deliver actionable insights.

You will lead stakeholder engagement, prioritise analytics requests, and support governance of talent metrics and data definitions, enabling self-service analytics adoption.