Senior Manager, People Analytics

The People Analytics Senior Manager will provide people-related data and analyses focused on ensuring the enterprise is able to make thoughtful, data-driven and human centered decisions. A core purpose of the role is to develop analytical frameworks, analyze and evaluate People data to discover and present actionable approaches to key stakeholders and business leaders. The leader has the responsibility to tell the story of our talent landscape and develop a talent analytics strategy that serves our People vision and business strategy.

Responsibilities:

Under the direction of the Global People Analytics & Payroll Leader, the senior manager will work closely with the HR COE leaders, as well as, various cross-functional teams, on a wide range of analytical and project management functions to empower organizational decision-making with high quality data, including:

• Proactively evaluate, capture, and translate complex business questions into a structured analytical plan, including identification of effective work streams.
• Utilize hypothesis-driven problem-solving approach to reveal insights and opportunities by accessing, processing, exploring, interpreting transaction / event level data to succinctly tell the story and tie it to business implications.
• Effectively partner with cross-functional teams & business partners with intent to build strong relationships that ultimately lead to identification of ways strategic analytics team can engage and improve business value
• Promote and evangelize a culture of excellence, data driven discussions, healthy skepticism, intellectual curiosity and knowledge sharing while maintaining an environment that is upbeat and fun
• Explore the unknown, brainstorming new ideas, building things, breaking things, and tireless attempt to identify business solutions
• Partner with Talent Management research on trending skills and capabilities, key talent and retention strategies, drivers of engagement
• Analysis of large data sets to distill insights and connect disparate ideas into cohesive recommendations and executive presentations
• Automation of workforce metrics and dashboards to deliver insights at scale
• Data quality processes and consistent use and adoption of measures, hierarchies, tools and reporting standards.
• Approach for predictive analytics, including data requirements, trade-offs in analytical methods, and interpretation of results
• Creation of models to assess trends, project needs, surface challenges, and estimate costs
• Design and tracking of project plans to ensure completion of key milestones; integrate with other business processes
• Partner with Talent Management on survey design for qualitative and quantitative insights
• Collaboration with key partners to develop workforce metrics that align with business priorities
• Ability to connect business strategy to talent strategy
• Strong desire and aptitude for deep analysis, building models, designing impactful data visualization
• Proven capability to balance multiple priorities, and excellent written and visual communication skills
• A strong sense of curiosity about the world and social behavior
• Ability to lead a team of analytics professionals
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required, analytical subject preferred (Statistics, Business, Economics, Engineering or related). Masters preferred
• Experience working with HR Analytics, Data Science, OR Business Analytics
• 10 years of experience using quantitative and qualitative analytical strategies and working with multiple data sources to generate insights from analyses (e.g. dashboards, tables, metrics), answering questions or creating solutions, and manipulating data (e.g., check for data issues, clean, merge)
• 10 years of experience using data visualization (e.g., tables, charts, graphs) to tell a story and represent analyses to an executive audience
• 3 years’ experience as a manager; or 3 years’ experience in a senior managerial role.
• 5 years of project management experience
• Working knowledge of SAP People Analytics preferred
• Experience with all or some of the following tools: Tableau or MS Power BI, Python or R, or other data analytic tools a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and responsibilities
• Knowledge of human centered design
• Strong business communication, presentation and writing skills
• Ability to communicate technical information and data to a non-technical audience in a logical, concise manner
• Ability to understand strategic objectives and translate into delivery via compelling, well framed presentations
• Strong problem formulation and problem-solving skills
• Superior learning agility; able to learn independently from a variety of sources; ability to thrive in ambiguous situations
• Collaboration skills to develop buy-in and consensus that drives progress and results
• Demonstrated experience managing one or more departments.
• Strong management skills with the ability to lead cohesive and productive teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of management through diplomacy and tact.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Celanese Corporation is a global chemical leader in the production of differentiated chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in most major industries and consumer applications. Our businesses use the full breadth of Celanese's global chemistry, technology and commercial expertise to create value for our customers, employees, shareholders and the corporation. As we partner with our customers to solve their most critical business needs, we strive to make a positive impact on our communities and the world through The Celanese Foundation. Based in Dallas, Celanese employs approximately 13,000 employees worldwide and had 2023 net sales of $10.9 billion. For more information about Celanese Corporation and its product offerings, visit www.celanese.com.