Additional Location(s): US-MA-Marlborough; US-MN-Arden Hills; US-MN-Maple Grove
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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.
About the role:
We are seeking a Principal Analyst to lead strategic workforce analytics and provide insights that inform talent and business decisions. As part of our Talent Analytics & Insights Center of Excellence (COE), you will serve as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders, leading analytics for an assigned workforce domain and contributing to initiatives that span multiple talent and workforce priorities including workforce strategy, organizational effectiveness and overall employee experience.
In this role, you will apply advanced analytics, strategic consulting, and business expertise to identify workforce trends, anticipate emerging challenges, and recommend actionable solutions. You will also help advance our analytics capabilities by developing proactive, integrated, and scalable approaches that enable evidence-based workforce decisions and measurable business outcomes.
Work model, sponsorship, relocation:
At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our Marlborough, MA or Arden Hills, MN office at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Strategic partnership: Advise senior HR and business leaders on workforce challenges and opportunities, translating business priorities into analytical questions, insights, and actionable recommendations.
• Domain analytics leadership: Lead complex analytical engagements from problem definition and methodology selection through analysis, validation, interpretation, and recommendations, ensuring analytical rigor and alignment with business decisions.
• Analytical consulting: Lead complex analytical engagements from problem definition and methodology selection through analysis, validation, interpretation, and recommendations that inform business decisions.
• Integrated workforce insights: Connect insights across workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, talent acquisition, mobility, talent management, and employee experience to address broader business challenges.
• Advanced analytics: Apply statistical, predictive, and other advanced analytical methods to structured and unstructured workforce data to identify trends, assess risks, and evaluate opportunities.
• Executive communication: Develop clear, compelling narratives and recommendations that communicate complex findings, influence leadership decisions, and support measurable outcomes.
• Scalable analytics solutions: Develop and improve analytical frameworks, methodologies, and solutions in partnership with HR Technology, IT, and Enterprise Data teams to support consistent, efficient, and sustainable analytics.
• COE capability development: Contribute to the advancement of the Talent Analytics & Insights COE by promoting analytical best practices, responsible use of AI, innovation, and proactive consulting capabilities.
Required qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in people analytics, workforce analytics, business analytics, management consulting, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading complex analytical or consulting engagements, including defining business problems, selecting analytical approaches, interpreting findings, and developing actionable recommendations.
• Experience applying statistical and advanced analytical methods, such as regression, forecasting, segmentation, or predictive analytics, to address business challenges.
• Experience using SQL to query, explore, and analyze data to support analytical investigations and business decisions.
• Experience analyzing structured and unstructured data, including quantitative and qualitative information, to generate insights and recommendations.
• Experience presenting analytical findings and strategic recommendations to senior business or functional leaders.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and collaborating with stakeholders across business functions to deliver analytical solutions or insights.
• Experience working with sensitive or confidential data and applying appropriate data quality, privacy, and analytical validation practices.
Preferred qualifications:
• Master's degree or MBA in Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience in the medical device, life sciences, healthcare, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience working within a People Analytics or Talent Analytics COE, enterprise analytics function, or strategic consulting environment.
• Experience advising leaders on workforce strategy, organizational effectiveness, talent acquisition, mobility, talent management, or employee experience.
• Experience with advanced analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, text analytics, or AI-enabled analytical approaches.
• Familiarity with Python, R, or comparable analytical tools.
• Experience developing scalable analytical frameworks, reusable methodologies, or enterprise decision-support solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and translate insights into strategic business decisions.
• Experience integrating workforce insights across multiple domains to support enterprise workforce planning or organizational transformation.
• Experience designing measurement frameworks, evaluating workforce initiatives, or applying research methods to assess the effectiveness of talent strategies and organizational interventions.
Requisition ID: 637384
Minimum Salary: $106800
Maximum Salary: $202900
The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com - will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.
Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).
Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).
For MA positions: It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test for employment. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.
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