Principal Analyst, HR Analytics
Medtronic
Summary
The Principal Analyst, HR Analytics supports Human Resources (HR) Centers of Expertise (COEs) by delivering workforce insights, reporting, analytics, and digital solutions across Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Learning and Development, and Inclusion, Diversity and Equity. This position is onsite at Operational Headquarters (OHQ) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Onsite 4 days, 1 day remote per week.
Job description
The Principal Analyst, HR Analytics serves as a subject matter expert in talent and workforce analytics, connecting HR priorities with operational, financial, and business performance. This role partners with HR leaders, program owners, analytics teams, and product teams to frame business questions, deliver actionable insights, and develop reporting and digital solutions that improve HR programs and decision-making.
Primary Responsibilities
- Partner with HR COE leaders and program owners to define business needs, analytical questions, hypotheses, and prioritized analytics solutions.
- Develop HR metrics, forecasts, dashboards, and reporting solutions that support workforce planning, demand forecasting, productivity, and performance measurement.
- Analyze governed workforce, operational, and financial data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and drivers across the employee lifecycle and business outcomes.
- Evaluate HR programs, processes, and implementations to measure impact, effectiveness, and opportunities for improvement.
- Translate complex analyses into clear visualizations, insights, and recommendations for executive, technical, and nontechnical audiences.
- Support development, delivery, and optimization of HR digital and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including translating user needs into product requirements and enhancement priorities.
- Improve reporting processes and expand scalable, self-service analytics capabilities across HR and business teams.
- Drive adoption of dashboards, tools, and digital capabilities through stakeholder engagement, training, feedback collection, and ongoing optimization.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of relevant experience OR advanced degree and 5+ years of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in HR, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Business or Data Science
- Experience in HR, people, talent, or workforce analytics.
- Experience connecting workforce data with operational, financial, or business performance.
- Experience developing HR metrics, dashboards, reporting, forecasting, or program evaluation analyses.
- Experience consulting with executive stakeholders and translating complex analyses into actionable business recommendations.
- Experience developing, implementing, or optimizing digital, analytics, artificial intelligence, or self-service reporting solutions.
- Experience utilizing visualization software such as Power BI
- Experience utilizing statistical software such as SPSS or R
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of relevant experience OR advanced degree and 5+ years of relevant experience
- For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-Term Disability
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- Well-Being Program
- Incentive Plans
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-Qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
- Capital Accumulation Plan
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.