Senior Talent Acquisition Data Analyst

About the job

WSP is seeking a highly analytical and results-oriented Senior Talent Acquisition Data Analyst to support the Talent Acquisition function through data-driven insights, executive reporting, process improvement, and reporting automation. This role will own and lead complex TA analytics projects that inform hiring strategy, workforce planning, and retention decisions. The role is accountable for end-to-end delivery—from defining business questions, project scope, and analytical approaches to integrating and validating data, developing predictive insights and automated solutions, and translating findings into actionable recommendations. Executive reporting, workforce analytics, and dashboards are key deliverables within this broader project ownership. The successful candidate will partner closely with Talent Acquisition leaders, HR Business Partners, Finance, and business stakeholders to align priorities, manage project delivery, and evaluate how analytical solutions improve hiring and retention outcomes.

Your Impact

What You Can Expect to Do Here

• Produce executive-level reporting and presentations on key hiring and retention metrics, including hiring demand, requisition volume, candidate pipeline activity, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rates, source effectiveness, attrition and workforce planning trends.
• Lead complex analyses of recruiting, workforce, and workforce planning data, selecting analytical approaches, and integrating multiple data sources to identify trends, risks, and opportunities. Translate predictive analytics, trend analysis, forecasting, and workforce intelligence into actionable recommendations for business growth, talent strategies, and hiring and retention decisions.
• Design, develop, and automate data visualizations, graphs, charts, dashboards, and reporting tools using Power BI, Excel, Power Query, Power Automate, and other reporting technologies.
• Create and maintain automated executive reporting packages and PowerPoint presentations that transform complex recruiting and workforce data into clear, actionable business insights.
• Develop automated reporting processes that reduce manual effort, improve data accuracy, and increase the timeliness and consistency of reporting deliverables.
• Generate weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual Talent Acquisition and retention reporting for Talent Acquisition Leadership, HR Leadership, Executive Leadership, and Business Leaders.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition teams to monitor hiring performance against forecasts, identify hiring risks, and provide recommendations to improve hiring outcomes.
• Own the analytics workstream for hiring acceleration initiatives, workforce planning, strategic workforce projects, and acquisition/integration activities. Define scope, deliverables, milestones, and analytical methods with stakeholders; manage dependencies and risks; and deliver predictive analytics, forecasts, workforce intelligence, executive reporting, and business intelligence solutions that inform workforce and hiring decisions.
• Ensure the integrity, accuracy, governance, validation, and reconciliation of Talent Acquisition, recruitment, retention, workforce, HRIS, ATS, and business intelligence data, ensuring executive reporting, dashboards, and workforce metrics remain accurate, consistent, and aligned across multiple systems, platforms, and data sources.
• Partner with HR, Finance, and business stakeholders to translate complex business questions into analytics project requirements, define meaningful performance metrics, and agree on success criteria and delivery priorities.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic Talent Acquisition analytics and process improvement projects, exercising independent judgment in problem-solving and taking accountability for analytical quality, stakeholder alignment, implementation of analytics solutions, and measurement of results.

Key Success Measures

• Timely and accurate delivery of executive hiring and retention reporting.
• Increased automation and efficiency of Talent Acquisition reporting processes.
• Improved visibility into hiring performance, workforce trends, and retention risks.
• Delivery of actionable insights that support business hiring goals, retention objectives, and workforce planning decisions.
• Development of executive-ready dashboards, presentations, and analytics that enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Statistics, Information Systems, or a related field.
• A minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience in Talent Acquisition analytics, people analytics, workforce planning, business intelligence, or a related analytical role.
• Advanced proficiency in Power BI, Excel, Power Query, PowerPoint, and data visualization tools.
• Experience developing executive dashboards, KPI scorecards, automated reporting solutions, and business intelligence reporting.
• Demonstrated experience creating executive-level presentations and communicating complex workforce and recruiting data through compelling visual storytelling.
• Strong knowledge of Talent Acquisition metrics, retention metrics, workforce planning concepts, and recruiting operations.
• Experience working with HRIS, ATS, and workforce analytics platforms.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and project management skills.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
• Experience with automation.

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $77,100 - $135,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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About Us

About WSP WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand.  Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 98621
• Job Category: Human Resources
• Posting Date: 2026-10-30
• Locations: 2030 Falling Water Road, Knoxville, TN, 37922, US ()