Director, Workforce Intelligence and Analytics

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility -our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how thework we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description
Summary
Rockwell Automation is seeking a Director, Workforce Intelligence & Analytics. You will turn workforce data into clear decisions about capability, cost, capacity, leadership depth, skills, critical roles, hiring, mobility, automation, and future work. You will connect strategic workforce planning, people analytics, and workforce intelligence platforms into one decision-support capability.

Success means insights lead to decisions, owners, timelines, action, and measurable outcomes. The role partners with HR Business Partners, HR Enablement, HR Technology, Finance, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and senior business leaders.

Reporting to the VP, Talent, you will have a hybrid office schedule and work from either our Milwaukee, WI or Mayfield Heights, OH offices.

Your Responsibilities:
Workforce Intelligence

Build and lead the enterprise workforce intelligence strategy, roadmap, operating rhythm, and executive insight agenda.

Translate business strategy into workforce questions leaders can act on, including capability gaps, talent supply, workforce cost, automation, location, and investment choices.

Combine people, labor market, hiring, mobility, succession, learning, workforce cost, operational, and business data into clear decision products.

Ensure insights move to decisions, owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes through partnership with HR and business leaders.

Strategic Workforce Planning

Lead strategic workforce planning, including current workforce baselines, future demand scenarios, and priority capability needs.

Build planning models that evaluate build, buy, borrow, redeploy, automate, and reduce-demand options.

Partner with HR, Finance, and business leaders to connect workforce plans to investment choices, productivity, location strategy, cost, capacity, and growth priorities.

Support technical workforce planning, technical career metrics, engineering leadership talent reviews, succession planning, and related executive reporting.

Analytics and Insights

Move us from activity reporting to decision support focused on business-critical workforce questions.

Create executive insight products, including workforce forecasts, succession and leadership pipeline views, hiring strategy briefs, productivity signals, critical role risk, service-level views, and skills gap analysis.

Use and support technical delivery of platforms such as Workday, Visier, Power BI, labor market data, and talent intelligence tools to scale repeatable analytics products.

Develop executive narratives that explain what is happening, why it matters, what options leaders have, what tradeoffs exist, and what action is recommended.

People Data Governance

Oversee people metric definitions, reporting standards, data quality rules, and governance routines for workforce intelligence outputs.

Partner with HR Technology, IT, HR Enablement, and business leaders on data quality, access, and privacy. Additionally, collaborate on ethical use, AI governance, operational reporting, and system requirements. These system requirements include governance procedures, metric logic, and adoption.

Executive Decision Support

Be the workforce intelligence advisor to HR leadership, business leaders, and executive forums.

Help leaders understand workforce risks, capability gaps, talent tradeoffs, and decision options in a simple, action-oriented way.

Leadership and Team Development

Lead a workforce analytics and intelligence team with capability in analytics, workforce planning, consulting, data storytelling, governance, product management, and business partnership.

Define the future team model and staffing case for priority capability gaps.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

Bachelor's degree in human resources management, data science, organizational development or similar discipline.

MBA or advanced degree with depth in analytics, data, organizational, or related fields.

12+ years' experience in people management

10+ years of experience in people analytics, workforce analytics, strategic workforce planning, talent strategy, business analytics, HR strategy, or a related field.

Experience in a large, global, matrixed company. Preferably in an industrial, technology, manufacturing, engineering, life sciences, or B2B services.

Previous experience building or materially improving a people analytics, workforce intelligence, strategic workforce planning, or talent insights function.

Advanced working knowledge of Workday, Visier, Power BI, labor market data, skills platforms, talent intelligence platforms, or related analytics tools.

Experience with workforce forecasting, scenario planning, job architecture, skills, organizational design, productivity analysis, headcount planning, or workforce cost modeling.

Experience creating metric governance, common definitions, data quality routines, and talent insights across hiring, succession, internal mobility, and labor market data.

Experience advising senior leaders using workforce data, business data, and structured analysis.

What We Offer:

Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision

401k

Paid Time off

Parental and Caregiver Leave

Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.

To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

If you are an individual with a disability and you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact our services team at View phone number on techcareers.com.

Rockwell Automation's hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.

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