People Analytics Business Partner

Position Overview

As a People Analytics Business Partner, you will serve as the bridge between data and business decisions for your assigned function. You will partner with business leaders to identify workforce challenges, translate them into analytical questions, and deliver insights that drive better people decisions. This role combines deep analytical expertise with strong consulting skills to help leaders understand and act on people data.

Why This Role Matters

Your work will directly shape how leaders make decisions about their teams. You will help answer critical questions such as what drives top performer success, how to optimize hiring processes, and where to focus retention efforts. This is an opportunity to see your analytics expertise translate directly into business impact in a high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

Business Partnership & Consulting

• Serve as the dedicated people analytics consultant for your business function, building strong relationships with leaders and HR partners.
• Identify opportunities where data can solve business challenges, from hiring strategies to team effectiveness.
• Cross-functional partnership with business teams, HR Business Partners, and other HR COEs to deliver insights that drive organizational strategic initiatives.
• Translate complex analyses into clear stories and actionable recommendations for business leaders.

Analytics & Insights Development

• Design and execute analyses that answer critical business questions about workforce trends and effectiveness.
• Build and maintain analytical products that give leaders visibility into key people metrics.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses on specific challenges like attrition drivers or hiring effectiveness.
• Use statistical methods to evaluate the impact of HR programs and initiatives.
• Drive adoption of people analytics tools and insights across your function.

Data Management & Quality

• Ensure high data quality and consistency in people analytics for your business area.
• Partner with our data warehouse team to improve data collection and accessibility.
• Define standard metrics and calculations for consistent reporting.
• Build scalable solutions that can be replicated across other business functions.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a people analytics or data science role.
• Strong proficiency in SQL for data extraction, manipulation, and querying.
• Demonstrable skills in statistical programming languages such as R or Python for data analysis and modeling.
• A proactive approach to identifying opportunities where people insights can solve business challenges.
• Experience in designing and executing analyses to answer critical business questions about workforce trends and effectiveness.
• Excellent consulting and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex analyses into clear stories and actionable recommendations for business leaders.
• Experience in partnering with business leaders to identify workforce challenges and translate them into analytical questions.
• Master's degree in a quantitative field like I/O Psychology, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, or a related area.

Company Information

Who We Are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations, and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Combined with industry-leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

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