Ontario Teachers Pension Plan

Director, People Analytics & Insights

Ontario Teachers Pension Plan$120K — $150K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Senior leadership experience in people analytics or HR technology in complex environments.
  • Success in shifting organizations from reporting to actionable insights for executives.
  • In-depth knowledge of people systems like Workday and analytics platforms.
  • Strong statistical skills, including regression analysis and predictive modeling.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and influence outcomes without formal authority.
  • Excellent communication skills for engaging senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Experience with data governance, privacy, and compliance in HR contexts.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategy for People Insights, emphasizing predictive analytics and forward-looking insights.
  • Transform business challenges into structured analytical queries.
  • Deliver insights on workforce trends and employee experience effectively.
  • Develop dashboards and visualization tools for decision-making at the senior leadership level.
  • Establish data governance practices ensuring quality and security for people data across the enterprise.
  • Integrate people data with business-relevant metrics to facilitate strategic insights.
  • Build and lead a high-performing analytics team, fostering a culture of empowerment and continuous improvement.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage.
  • Defined benefit pension plan for retirement income.
  • Option to invest back into the fund through the Deferred Incentive Program.
  • Flexible work environment with opportunities for remote work.
  • Competitive time off policy.
  • Unique Flexible Travel Program allowing for working abroad for up to a month annually.
Full Job Description
Director, People Analytics & Insights

The opportunity

This role brings together analytics, workforce insights, and technology under a single strategic leader. The Director will shift the organization from reactive reporting to consultative, predictive, and prescriptive insights, while also providing clear enterprise ownership for people technology, data governance, and AI enablement across People and Culture.

This is a build role-designing strategy, establishing capabilities, and embedding data-driven decision-making across P&C and the business.

The Director, Insights & People Systems is accountable for identifying, creating, and managing enterprise-wide people insights and analytics capabilities, ensuring they are integrated with business performance, financial outcomes, and future workforce needs.

You will:
• Act as the enterprise voice of P&C with Technology
• Own the people insights
• Ensure data, systems, and analytics are trusted, secure, and decision-ready
• Elevate P&C's advisory impact with senior business leaders

Who you'll work with

You will partner with peers and members across all P&C teams including Talent & Leadership, Rewards, Employee Relations, Insights, and P&C Business Partners. In addition to P&C team, you'll partner with key stakeholders in Finance and Technology.

What you'll do

1. People Insights & Analytics Strategy
  • Lead an enterprise People Insights strategy, moving from transactional reporting to forward-looking, decision-ready insights that anticipate risks and opportunities.
  • Translate complex business challenges into structured analytical questions rather than ad hoc reporting requests.
  • Deliver insights across workforce trends, talent risks, engagement, productivity, operating model effectiveness, and employee experience.
  • Lead development of dashboards, visualization tools, and storytelling for SLT, ELT, and Board-level decision-making.
  • Define and track KPIs for analytics impact (e.g., retention improvement, cost optimization, risk reduction).
  • Regularly report on the enterprise return on analytics and insights initiatives.


2. People Technology
  • Be the voice of People & Culture to translate P&C requirements with our Technology partners.
  • Drive AI-enabled to deliver predictive and prescriptive analytics (e.g., workforce planning, attrition risk).
  • Evaluate emerging technologies to future-proof the people data and analytics ecosystem.


3. Data Governance, Integration & Security
  • Establish strong data governance, access, quality, and security practices for people data, balancing insight enablement with privacy, risk, and regulatory requirements.
  • Ensure the enterprise is collecting the right data at the right level, stored and integrated appropriately.
  • Improve integration between people data and business-relevant information (financial and performance outcomes).
  • Clarify ownership and accountability for people reporting and analytics across P&C, reducing duplication and friction.


4. Cross-Functional Partnership & Influence
  • Partner closely with various stakeholders to deliver integrated enterprise insights.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to P&C and business leaders, elevating the use of data in strategic decision-making.
  • Build awareness of external market, workforce, and analytical trends, embedding relevant external data into enterprise insights.
  • Contribute to enterprise initiatives related to workforce strategy, operating model evolution, and the future of work.


5. Team Leadership & Capability Building
  • Build and lead a high-performing small team spanning people analytics, reporting, and systems.
  • Develop future-ready capabilities including analytical rigor, business acumen, AI literacy, curiosity, and consultative judgement.
  • Foster a culture of empowerment, continuous improvement, and shared accountability aligned with department and divisional design goals


What you'll need
  • Senior leadership experience in people analytics, workforce insights, HR technology, or digital transformation, ideally in a complex enterprise environment.
  • Proven success moving organizations from reporting to insight, influencing senior leaders through clear, actionable analysis and storytelling.
  • Deep understanding of people systems (e.g., Workday), data architecture, analytics platforms, and AI/automation applications in HR contexts.
  • Strong statistical and analytical background (e.g., regression analysis, predictive modeling).
  • Business-led, insight-driven mindset with strong judgement and enterprise perspective.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and leading change in evolving operating models.
  • Influential leader who aligns stakeholders and drives outcomes without relying on formal authority.
  • Solutions-focused, practical, and able to simplify complexity.
  • Confident communicator, comfortable presenting at senior leadership levels and working behind the scenes to shape decisions
  • Experience partnering closely with enterprise Technology teams and operating in platform- or product-oriented models.
  • Strong understanding of risk, governance, and data privacy in people data environments.


What we're offering

  • Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage
  • Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan
  • The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program
  • A flexible work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
  • Competitive time off
  • Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year
  • Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis


How to apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today! You may be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application.

Functional Areas:
People & Culture

Vacancy:

Current

Requisition ID:

7072

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About Ontario Teachers Pension Plan

The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board is an independent organization responsible for administering defined-benefit pensions for school teachers of the Canadian province of Ontario. Ontario Teachers' also invests the plan's pension fund and it is one of the world's largest institutional investors, acting as a partner organization of the World Economic Forum. The plan is a multi-employer pension plan, jointly sponsored by the Government of Ontario and the Ontario Teachers' Federation. Ontario Teachers' achieved a 11.1% one-year total-fund net return in 2021 and achieved its ninth consecutive fully funded year.
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