People Analytics Consultant

The People Analytics (PA) Consultant serves as a strategic client-facing partner to designated business segments and People Centers of Excellence. This role focuses on deeply understanding business priorities translating them into high-impact people analytics opportunities and embedding data-driven decision-making into day-to-day people and business processes.

Position Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary People Analytics consultant and point of contact for aligned business segments and/or People Centers of Excellence building trusted long-term partnerships.

• Develop a deep understanding of clients strategies priorities operating context and key people challenges.

• Proactively identify and shape high-impact people analytics opportunities that support client strategies moving from problem definition through insight to action.

• Partner with clients to prioritize demand ensuring People Analytics capacity is focused on work that delivers the greatest business and people impact.

• Deliver analytics solutions by:

  • Enabling clients to self-serve through existing dashboards tools and products

  • Conducting analyses directly where appropriate

  • Orchestrating work across the broader People Analytics team to bring the right expertise to each problem

• Act as a subject-matter expert on People Analytics products tools and service offerings and stay current on external people analytics trends translating them into practical applications for clients.

• Embed people analytics insights and capabilities within client organizations through effective storytelling change management and influence.

• Upskill client teams and leaders to build confidence and capability in using people data as part of regular decision-making and planning processes.

• Coach consultant colleagues on deeper understanding of our data and share wins in your client groups to enable your peers to scale.

• Champion data-driven decision-making by sharing success stories case studies and examples of impact that reinforce the value of People Analytics across the organization.

• Help refine the People Analytics consultant operating model and strategy working with client groups to operationalize it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field such as Analytics Statistics Economics Psychology HR Business or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.

• 6 years experience in people analytics workforce analytics HR analytics management consulting HR or a related field with demonstrated exposure to client-facing or stakeholder partnership work.

• Strong consulting and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate ambiguous business questions into clear analytical approaches and actionable insights.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and partner with stakeholders at multiple levels including HR leaders business leaders and PeopleComms Centers of Excellence.

• Strong communication and data storytelling skills with the ability to clearly articulate insights implications and recommendations to non-technical audiences.

• Experience prioritizing and managing multiple requests or projects balancing stakeholder needs with available capacity and impact.

• Comfort working with people data metrics and dashboards and a solid understanding of how people data can inform workforce and talent decisions.

• High degree of curiosity learning agility and comfort operating in evolving environments and operating models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Analytics Data Science Organizational Psychology HR Business or a related field.

• Experience operating in a matrixed or global organization supporting multiple stakeholder groups simultaneously.

• Familiarity with common people analytics domains such as talent acquisition retention engagement workforce planning performance inclusion or skills.

• Experience enabling self-service analytics through dashboards tools or data products (e.g. Workday reporting Power BI Tableau or similar platforms).

• Exposure to change management capability building or upskilling efforts related to data-driven decision-making.

• Prior experience working in or alongside HR functions HR Business Partners or PeopleComms Centers of Excellence.

• Awareness of external people analytics trends and emerging practices with the ability to translate them into practical business-relevant applications.

When you join our team:

• Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us visit is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge skills qualifications experience and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact for the salary range for your location.

Manulife/John Hancock offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits including health dental mental health vision short- and long-term disability life and AD&D insurance coverage adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in the U.S. includes up to 11 paid holidays 3 personal days 150 hours of vacation and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.

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