PEOPLE ANALYTICS MANAGER

Permanent
Hybrid - London Waterloo
G4
At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.
This is an exciting time to join a vibrant People Team and evolving People Operations function, who are driving an exciting transformation roadmap and continuous improvement of our people processes and colleague experience.
The People Analytics Manager will support & advise on the People reporting and analytics strategy and lead the delivery, across the People function. This strategic role is critical in enabling sophisticated, data-driven insights, identifying trends, and influencing strategic and operational People & business decisions, directly aligning with the Currys 3-year people plan.
Reporting to our Head of People Operations & Transformation, you are empowered to own and drive our approach to progress our people analytics maturity, managing partnerships with other functions and 3rd parties.

As part of this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Strategic People Analytics: Support the strategic direction of our people reporting and analytics initiatives, ensuring the delivery of advanced analytics, that inform executive-level decision-making and align with the 3-year People Plan.
• People Reporting & Analytics Management: Lead the evolution of the HR reporting and analytics capabilities & strategy, ensuring people analytics initiatives are seamlessly integrated with the People plan, providing actionable insights that support long term strategic HR objectives.
• Advanced Data Visualisation: Build complex HR analytics in PowerBI, blending, manipulating, and integrating vast data sets from diverse sources to achieve advanced and intuitive data visualisation for end users.
• People Metrics Definition: Define and standardise the critical people metrics required for effective workforce planning, people planning, and to support the core hire to retire processes, ensuring these metrics provide the foundation for all HR analytics and reporting.
• Technology Partnership: Serve as a HR analytics SME, collaborating with the technology data office (CDO) team to advance HR analytics maturity, including defining and planning the strategic automation of data processes and engineering requirements.
• Future-Proof Reporting Tools: Ensure that our reporting tools are not only fit for purpose today but also equipped to meet future challenges and business growth, ensuring scalability, adaptability, and continuous improvement.
• Future technology: Identify and pursue opportunities to collaborate with the CDO team to explore and define use cases for machine learning and generative AI. Serve as the central point of contact for the people team, ensuring seamless connectivity, enhanced productivity, and improved experience in these initiatives.
• Data Security: Ensure the delivery of people reporting and analytics, while upholding the highest standards of data privacy, security, and GDPR compliance

You will need:

• Extensive experience in HR analytics or a related analytics role.
• Expert proficiency in PowerBI and advanced data visualisation tools/ data warehouses.
• In-depth knowledge of data privacy and security practices, including GDPR.
• Exceptional analytical, strategic thinking, and project management skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and communicate effectively across various seniority levels.
• Proven ability to align analytics with strategic business plans and future-proofing initiatives.
• Experience in defining and implementing key HR metrics and analytics
• Relevant professional qualification desirable
• Experience working with AI desirable

We know our people are the magic ingredient in our success. That’s why we reward you with benefits that go deeper than just the day-to-day. Benefits that work for you, your lifestyle and your career. They include Company Pension Scheme, Discretionary/Performance based bonus, Private Health Insurance and Colleague Discounts.
Beyond that, we’ll be with you every step of the way, enabling you to get the most out of your role, grow your skills your way, and see your career develop in the way you want. Be part of our talented People, Communications and Sustainability team and unbox your passion at the UK’s best-known retailer in tech.

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