Senior Manager, People Analytics, Insights and AI



 We are the people who give possibilities purpose BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

 Job Description Summary: The Senior Manager of People Analytics, Insights & AI will serve as the strategic and technical leader responsible for advancing how BD uses people data to drive workforce decisions and business performance. This is a senior people-manager role combining deep analytical expertise with a strong emphasis on change leadership, business partnership, and practical adoption of analytics across the enterprise. The position will be reporting to the Director of “People Analytics and Insights”. The right candidate brings not just the ability to build sophisticated models and dashboards, but the business judgment to know what questions matter most, the communication skills to make findings land with senior leaders, and the persistence to drive meaningful change in how people data is used day to day.

Strategic Business Partnership & Advisory Partner with senior HR and business leaders to frame complex workforce challenges as analytical problems with clear, data-driven answers connected to business outcomes. Serve as a trusted advisor to HR Business Partners, equipping them with workforce insights and decision support tools that strengthen their strategic impact. Translate analytical findings into compelling narratives that anchor the “so what” in business terms for non-technical audiences, including VPs and Senior Directors. Proactively identify where people’s analytics can add measurable value and develop structured cases that articulate the problem, solution, and expected impact. Advanced Analytics & Insight Development Lead the design and delivery of advanced analytics solutions including predictive modeling, workforce segmentation, attrition risk, talent pipeline assessment, and organizational effectiveness indicators. Apply statistical techniques – regression, machine learning, clustering, hypothesis testing – to translate ambiguous business questions into reliable, actionable insights. Deliver operational talent reports and KPI scorecards with data-driven narratives that are clear, interpretable, and decision-ready for leadership audiences. Collaborate with data engineering and IT partners to integrate HR data from multiple sources and build scalable analytics solutions within BD’s data environment. Maintain rigorous standards for data quality, integrity, governance, and documentation across all key HR datasets. Adoption, Change Leadership & Business Case Development Own the adoption of people analytics tools and insights across HR and the business – ensuring solutions are understood, trusted, and actively used in decision-making, not just delivered. Design and execute change management plans for analytics initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, training, and feedback loops that build confidence and sustain usage. Develop well-reasoned business cases for analytics investments, clearly articulating the problem, approach, expected ROI, and success criteria. Establish a framework for measuring and communicating the value of people analytics, helping leadership understand what the team delivers and why it matters. Embed analytics into existing HR and business workflows, identifying and removing barriers to adoption – whether technical, behavioral, or organizational. Analytics Visualization & Storytelling Create executive-ready dashboards, reports, and presentations in Power BI that educate, inform, and influence decisions across HR and business leadership. Set a high standard for data