People Analytics Manager

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. 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.

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.
• Data Security & Governance: Ensure the delivery of people reporting and analytics, while upholding the highest standards of data privacy, security, and GDPR compliance. Responsible for data access control in accordance with Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) and Role Based Permissions.

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.
• Relevant professional qualification 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.

Join our team and we’ll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life. Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.