Senior Director, Workforce Analytics and Data Integration

About Sodexo

Sodexo is a global leader in sustainable food and valued experiences with annual revenues of €21.1 billion and more than 430,000 employees operating in 43 countries.

Sodexo is a family business founded by Pierre Bellon in 1966 and now managed by his daughter Sophie Bellon, who is Chairwoman and CEO.

We serve 80 million consumers each day with an integrated offering developed over more than 50 years of experience: from food services, reception, maintenance and cleaning to facilities and equipment management.

We are also a world leader in live event hosting, contributing to the success of prestigious events such as the Super Bowl, Tour de France, Roland Garros and most recently for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.

Sodexo's success and performance are founded on its strong entrepreneurial spirit, independence, its sustainable business model and its ability to continuously develop and engage its employees throughout the world.

Sodexo promotes the fulfilment of its employees and contributes to the economic, social and environmental development of the communities where the company operates.

Our recruitment teams are trained in recruitment without discrimination, including people with disabilities. Our managers are also made aware of these issues and are our first ambassadors on these subjects.

This position is based in USA, Europe or India :

An experienced HR Data and Reporting leader to drive successful transition and management of large scale global HCM.

Missions :

• Lead the strategic and operational HR Global Data Management team through the multi-year implementation and data integration of local systems into global HCMs (SuccessFactors) using (MDM) and Reference Data Management (RDM), Quality Assurance protocols processes and best practices.
• Enabling HR Data Governance & Stewardship, Data Quality, and eliminating manual customizations in individual systems by providing standard integrations of master data.
• Global Reporting and Analytics, including the strategic design and implementation of dashboards, reporting tools and data warehouse/data lake platforms.
• Oversee the development of analytical reports and dashboards to advance the workforce strategic decision-making at Sodexo.
• Develop and foster internal partnerships with HR stakeholders and cross-divisional teams such as IT, Finance and Operations. Manage external partners to ensure effective and efficient delivery of assigned tasks.
• Managing a team of approximately 13 technical and experienced functional leaders as direct reports (Directors, Senior Managers) and individual contributors (operating budget of $2M+)

Primary Duties & Responsibilities :

• Hands-on Leadership of HR Data Management Activities
• Development and Implementation of Global and North America Reporting and Analytics; including delivery of key reports and metrics to Senior Executives and HR Leadership.
• Leadership of Global and Regional initiatives – requires hands-on documentation, project and resource planning, executive updates. Consulting and presenting deliverables to HR Executives and Leaders
• Management of Team members, including mentoring and development, resource planning and operational budget setting and management.
• Development on analytic reports and platforms; including automation of existing production reports, workforce productivity metrics, integration of HR and Operational to help drive workforce planning decisions.

Typical Knowledge & Skills :

Ability to combine strong systems, technical data capabilities with a strong understanding of functional HR processes to drive HR data and reporting excellence at a global and targeted (NORAM) regional level.

• Experienced Leadership with SuccessFactors or other global, large scale HCM/HRIS implementations
• Strong consulting, operational excellence and managerial skill sets are required with the ability to get into the detail and execution of deliverables.
• Ability to communicate and persuade Executive leadership teams. Motivate, mentor, and inspire team members, and drive operational excellence.
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise in HR Reporting, Data Integration and Data Management, including: HCM (SAP/SF, Workday, Oracle) Reporting modules, Data Integration tools and platforms (such as Informatica, AWS, Azure, Power Platform), and data programming tools, SQL/MS Access, Python, SAS, R)

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Executive HR Leadership position with global employer: 2-3 years
• Managerial Leadership with a progressive career within HR or Data/Reporting or Systems division: 10+ years progressive
• Leadership role with a Global HR Implementation/Transformation Project : at least 1 full cycle HCM ERP implementation

Preferred:

• Hands-on experience with SuccessFactors HCM
• Advanced experience and technical certification in an ERP (such as SAP, SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle, ADP)
• Advanced (Masters) degree in an HR, IT or Data Analytics discipline
• Experience and certification in Data Analytics or relational database programming (Python, SQL, R, SAS)
• Certification in an HR discipline (such as SHRM, AIHR)