Workday Analytic, Data and Reporting Manager

About Us:
At Sanofi, we are dedicated to transforming healthcare through innovation and technology. Our digital initiatives focus on enhancing operational efficiency, improving patient outcomes and delivering best in class workplace experiences. We are seeking a highly skilled Workday Analytics, Data and Reporting Manager with proficient experience in Workday Data, Analytics and Reporting to join our team and support our mission.  

Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Workday Reporting & Analytics Manager to join our dynamic Master Data Management and Data Governance team. This role is pivotal to driving our data-driven decision-making processes and enhancing our HR reporting capabilities. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Workday report design, discovery boards, PRISM, and Extend, along with a strong understanding of Workday security roles and their implications for reporting. The successful candidate will understand how transactional reporting in Workday should complement workforce analytics dashboards delivered through tools such as PowerBI and Visier. Additionally, experience with listening research tools and quantitative research best practice using tools such as Peakon and Qualtrics is essential. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Workday Reporting & Analytics: 

• Design, develop, and maintain complex Workday reports, dashboards, and discovery boards to support HR and business needs. 

• Ensure overall reporting strategy is consistent and mitigates redundancy while adhering to compliance standards.  

• Utilize Workday PRISM and Extend to integrate and analyze data from multiple sources, providing actionable insights. 

• Ensure data accuracy and integrity in all reporting and analytics processes. 

• Collaborate with People Insights team and advanced analytics product owners to ensure clarity of system usage by persona and use case. 

• Security & Compliance: 

• Manage Workday security roles and permissions, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and regulatory requirements. 

• Govern Security standards to ensure alignment with business needs and audit compliance. Conduct regular audits to identify risks and ensure compliance with data security policies 

• Collaborate with IT and HR teams to address security implications for reporting and data access. 

• Listening Research & Employee Engagement: 

• Leverage tools such as Peakon and Qualtrics to gather and analyze employee engagement data. 

• Provide insights and recommendations to HR and business leaders based on engagement data, enhancing employee experience and retention. 

• Manage data and requirement collection to ensure timely implementation of ongoing employee listening campaigns. Partner closely with People and Culture People Insights function to ensure actionable insights creation is aligned to programme objectives 

• Team Leadership: 

• Provides leadership, management oversight for subject matter experts, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment and ensures successful deliverables for different projects. 

• Provide mentorship and development opportunities to team members, ensuring continuous growth and expertise. 

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to Workday analytics management, ensuring that data structures evolve to meet changing business needs. Stay abreast of industry best practices and Workday updates to maintain high standards.

• Global Collaboration: 

• Work within a multinational matrixed organization, collaborating with global HR and IT teams to align reporting and analytics strategies. 

• Drive consistency and standardization in reporting practices across regions. 

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including People and Culture, People Services, Data Privacy, Finance, and Digital, to ensure that all reporting strategy, security configuration and employee listening survey processes align with business needs. Provide guidance and support to stakeholders on Analytic, Data and Reporting matters. 

Knowledge, Skills & competencies

• Good understanding of HRS System requirements 

• Ability to think strategically and to translate business and technical objectives into roadmaps, projects and data strategies to support foundation and evolution of capabilities and platforms 

• Ability to lead, drive and provide direction for functional and/or project leads, teams, and/or members 

• Thorough and up-to-date knowledge of HRS data, processes, data information flows, and related industry data standards including  data standards and controlled vocabularies 

• Collaborative approach and ability to cooperate transversally and to act for change for People Services 

• Ability to lead and drive and to thrive in a fast-paced team environment  

• Excellent interpersonal skills, negotiation skills, and verbal and written communications 

• Ability to effectively lead and / or support multiple large global projects and  teams related to or representing HRS data, data information flows, and data standards 

• Must be able to quickly accommodate to changing priorities, and also to meet tight deadlines while maintaining high quality standards 

• Experience in problem – solving and analysis. Ability to multi-task and to work in a global team environment, customer focused and action oriented