Sr. Manager, People Analytics and Reporting Management

Your Role This role supports Ascendiun and related activities within the Ascendiun Family of Companies. The People Analytics and Reporting team delivers workforce data, reporting, and analytics that enable informed business decisions, support People and Engagement strategy, and improve organizational effectiveness. The People Analytics and Reporting Senior Manager will report to the Vice President, People at Ascendiun. In this role, you will lead the People Analytics and Reporting team and partner with People & Engagement and business leaders to implement an analytics strategy aligned with enterprise goals and future workforce needs. You will translate workforce data into actionable insights, oversee accurate and timely reporting, and lead advanced analytics initiatives that inform business decisions and improve talent processes.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Partner with the VP, People to implement the strategic vision and roadmap for People Analytics, aligning with enterprise business goals and future workforce needs.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, HR business partners, and key stakeholders, translating complex data into actionable business strategies.
• Develop a high-performing People Analytics and Reporting team, prioritizing projects, managing capacity and timelines, and meeting critical goals while adhering to high quality standards.
• Oversee the design, delivery and continuous improvement of dashboards, reports and workforce metrics, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.
• Lead advanced analytics projects and implement business-focused action plans to advance the client organization.
• Foster a culture of innovation, understand industry trends and emerging technologies, and identify opportunities for process optimization and new analytics capabilities.
• Collaborate with People & Engagement Centers of Excellence to use data to evaluate and optimize talent processes and solutions.
• Conduct needs assessments and capture the voice of the customer to inform analytics solutions

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Requires a minimum of 8 years prior relevant experience
• Requires 4 years of prior people management experience with direct responsibility for supervising, coaching, and evaluating direct reports
• Requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Requires understanding of Python, R, SAS, Julia or equivalent statistical programming language
• Requires understanding of data visualization using Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint
• Requires ability to partner, collaborate with, and influence relevant stakeholders across diverse functions and experience levels
• Requires strong independent judgement, critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to anticipate and respond to emerging challenges
• Preferred experience in working with Workday Reporting, Workday People Analytics, Prism Analytics, or similar HR technology platforms to develop dashboards, reports, and workforce insights.

Hybrid This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

About Blue Shield of California and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

As of January 2025, Blue Shield of California became a subsidiary of Ascendiun. Ascendiun is a nonprofit corporate entity that is the parent to a family of organizations including Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan; Altais, a clinical services company; and Stellarus, a company designed to scale healthcare solutions. Together, these organizations are referred to as the Ascendiun Family of Companies.

At Ascendiun, we believe in a brighter future for healthcare. As the parent to a family of four innovative healthcare companies, we’re reimagining what’s possible. Ascendiun is guided by the goal of transforming a dysfunctional American health care system into one worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable for everyone.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

• Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human. We strive to listen and communicate effectively, and showing empathy by understanding others’ perspectives.
• Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

Our Workplace Model:

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.

• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

• For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.