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Senior Manager, People Analytics

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Boston, MA
Senior level
Boston, MA
Senior level
Drive impact through people analytics by generating insights, managing reporting processes, and leading a team of analysts to improve talent decision-making.
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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, and Performance & Efficiency.

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
  • 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)
  • 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

  • 7+ years experience in an analytics, strategy, or product role
  • Experience building, managing, and leading a team
  • Degree in a quantitative field like Business Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, or Statistics
  • 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

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at [email protected].

Top Skills

Data Studio
Google Bigquery
Google Sheets
Google Slides
Looker
Excel
Python
R
SQL
Tableau
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Wayfair Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office

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500 Boylston St, Boston, MA, United States, 02116

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