Wayfair is hiring a

Workforce Planning Manager

Boston, United States

This role reports into our Boston office Monday-Thursday (remote flexibility on Friday).

Wayfair’s People Analytics team helps the company make thoughtful, data-driven decisions about its talent. We use data to drive meaningful change in how Wayfair builds the best team in home.

In this role, you’ll drive impact by generating, sharing, and scaling people analytics reporting and insights for the broader Wayfair organization and its leaders by analyzing data related to Talent and operational topics including Headcount & Org Health (i.e. Attrition, Org Shape), Hiring Performance & Efficiency and Talent Costs (Headcount, Talent Software).

What You’ll Do: 

  • Partner closely with a team of people analysts, business intelligence analysts, and engineers to evolve our talent data model and design consumable, high-impact dashboards and visualizations for highly impactful topics
  • Manage 1-3 analysts and support their day to day work and their long term professional growth
  • Work with stakeholders and leaders across Talent and the business to identify and prioritize our most critical people analytics product and automation needs
  • Manage processes and data products such as forecasting models, dashboards (e.g. Visier, Looker), and survey tools (e.g. Qualtrics), and recurring analyses (e.g. pay equity, attrition reporting)
  • Manage cost reporting and forecasting (in partnership with Finance) and analytics the Talent Org, developing insights into key cost drivers (I.e. Cost per Hire analysis)
  • Lead and develop a high-performing team of analysts
  • Conduct in-depth analysis on specific topics, i.e. Organizational Shape, Attrition, and Employee Engagement

Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years experience in an analytics, strategy, product, workforce development
  • Bachelors Degree in Analytics, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field
  • Excellent analytical skills with experience turning data into actionable insights  and appetite to become the SME in Talent related analytics 
  • Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, proficient in Google Sheets and Google Slides
  • Some knowledge of SQL and Python or R; experience with Google BigQuery, Data Studio, Tableau or Looker a plus
  • Experience collaborating across multiple stakeholder groups, communicating with diverse audiences, and balancing/negotiating priorities
  • The integrity, maturity, and respect to handle extremely confidential and sensitive employee data
  • Experience building, managing, and leading a team preferred

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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