People Analytics Lead

Position Details

Title: People Analytics Lead

Department: People & Impact

Reports to: Director, HR Technology & People Analytics

Location: Dearborn, MI

Job Classification: Remote

FLSA Status: Exempt

Job Band: Professional

Job Summary

The People Analytics Lead plays a critical role in establishing and driving enterprise-wide people analytics initiatives that enable data-driven decision-making across the organization. This role leads cross-functional programs, aligns stakeholders, and ensures the successful delivery of scalable analytics solutions that help to progress workforce development, associate experience, and business outcomes. This individual combines strong program management discipline with a deep understanding of HR data, analytics and storytelling, serving as a connector between HR/Talent Programs and business leaders.  

Inspired by Hard Work

At Carhartt, the values of hard work—dependability, honesty, and trust—are rooted in the legacy of our founder, Hamilton Carhartt. His commitment to serving hardworking people continues to inspire everything we do. Guided by his legacy and our mission—We serve and protect all hardworking people by building durable products—we remain dedicated to upholding these principles in every decision we make and every product we create.

Associate Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a portfolio of people analytics initiatives and projects, ensuring effective delivery and execution.
• Establish program governance, timelines, milestones, and success metrics.
• Identify dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery.
• Drive prioritization and alignment across multiple talent program stakeholders and initiatives.
• Partner with HR leaders, business executives, and the HR system team to define talent program metric objectives and methods of measuring outcomes.
• Translate business needs into actionable analytics use cases and roadmaps.
• Communicate program status, insights, and impact clearly to senior leadership.
• Develop and deploy dashboards, infographics, and analytics solutions, to tell the story of HR talent program successes and opportunities.
• Ensure data integrity, consistency, and alignment with enterprise data standards.
• Support the design of predictive and prescriptive analytics (e.g., attrition, workforce planning, and talent insights).
• Build and standardize program management practices within the People Analytics function.
• Drive continuous improvement of analytics processes, tools, and delivery methods.
• Lead change management strategies to drive adoption of analytics tools and insights, including developing enablement materials, training, and communication plans.
• Promote a data-driven culture across HR and business functions.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, Data Analytics, Data Science or a related field required.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of program or project management experience, preferably in HR, People Analytics, or data/analytics environments.
• Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional initiatives at scale.
• Experience working with HR systems (e.g. Dayforce, SuccessFactors) and data platforms (e.g. Microsoft BI, Tableau).
• Experience in People Analytics, Workforce Planning, or HR Technology.
• Experience creating data visualization tools as elements of executive storytelling.
• Understanding of statistical methods, predictive modeling, and data science concepts, and how to apply them.
• PMP, Agile, or similar certification preferred.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit, talk and hear. 
• The employee will frequently use hands to operate phone and computer.  
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

• This position has a Remote location: Associate will have no regular requirement to be on-site. Travel on-site is limited to special events.
• Carhartt is a tobacco free workplace.

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