Mgr, People Insights & Decision Advisory

We are recruiting for a Manager, People Insights & Decision Advisory, located in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

HR Data & Intelligence sits at the heart of Johnson & Johnson’s HR Digital ecosystem, architecting the intelligence layer that shapes how the company understands, engages, and mobilizes its global workforce. This organization builds and operationalizes enterprise-scale data, analytics, and AI capabilities that do more than inform decisions—they reshape how HR plans, predicts, personalizes, and performs. By unifying data science, employee listening, knowledge management, and responsible AI, HR Data & Intelligence is transforming workforce signals into strategic advantage, ensuring HR is not only insight-led and future-ready, but a trusted steward of ethical, human-centered intelligence at scale.  Within this ecosystem, People Insights & Advisory Services provides the focused human‑led analytical and advisory capability dedicated to solving the most complex, ambiguous people‑driven business challenges—including the effectiveness and competitiveness of HR programs—while partnering with data science and product teams to convert repeatable insights into scalable decision products. 
 

The Manager, People Insights & Decision Advisory sits within the People Insights & Advisory Services arm of the HR Data & Intelligence team, accountable for applying people analytics expertise to Johnson & Johnson’s highest-priority workforce, talent, and organizational decisions.  The role focuses on the most consequential business questions – where rigorous analysis, behavioral insight, and clear narratives can materially improve decision quality and outcomes. 
 

Operating as a strategic advisor and decision scientist, the Manager, People Insights & Decision Advisory partners with HR and business leaders to shape and refine priority decision questions, translate them into testable hypotheses, and apply rigorous analytical methods to generate insight. A core accountability of the role is to identify patterns and insights with the potential to scale, and to work in close partnership with Decision Products and other HR Data & Intelligence teams to transform repeatable insights into durable, enterprise‑ready analytics and decision products. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Partner with HR and business leaders to shape and clarify high‑impact workforce and talent questions, translating business context into well‑defined analytical problem statements and testable hypotheses. 
• Apply rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods to generate credible, decision‑relevant people insights across HR domains.
• Identify patterns and insights with repeatable value, distinguishing one‑time analyses from insights that should be scaled through enterprise analytics and decision products. 
• Collaborate closely with Decision Products and other HR Data & Intelligence teams to translate validated insights into reusable metrics, analytics, and decision products, contributing domain context and analytical framing. 
• Translate complex analyses into clear, compelling narratives that connect people insights to business outcomes and enable confident decision‑making by senior leaders. 
• Ensure all people insights work adheres to data privacy, ethical standards, and responsible use principles, maintaining trust while working with sensitive employee data. 
• Contribute to the strategy, development, and maintenance of Workforce and HR Scorecards prepared for and shared with a senior executive audience.

Qualifications 

Required: 

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in IO/Psychology, Data Science, Finance, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field is required. 
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in HR, people analytics, workforce analytics, data science, workforce planning, business analytics, customer/market research, management consulting, or other data-driven roles that support business and/or talent decision-making.
• Proven ability to frame ambiguous business questions, apply analytic rigor, and translate complex data into clear, decision-relevant insights 
• Demonstrated strength in executive-level communication and storytelling, with the ability to influence through clarity and evidence 
• Prior experience advising or consulting with senior leaders or executive stakeholders using data and insights to inform business and/or talent decisions
• Experience working with analytical platforms and tools (e.g., R, Python, PowerBI)

Preferred: 

• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline (i.e. IO/Psychology, Data Science, Finance, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field) 
• Experience leveraging generative AI to improve analytical efficiency, accelerate insight generation, and support evidence-based business and talent decisions.
• Experience operating within an HR, people analytics, or workforce technology environment 
• Experience operating in a global organization with awareness of regional data, privacy, and residency considerations 
• Experience with employee and/or customer listening and survey methodologies, including design, interpretation, and integration with other relevant data sources and signals.
• Strong understanding of workforce and HR data domains and how people insights informs business outcomes 
• Experience partnering with product, data science, or analytics teams to scale insights into reusable analytics or decision products 
• Experience using statistical methods and analytical techniques to test hypotheses, identify drivers of business and/or workforce outcomes, and support evidence-based decision-making.