Sr. Specialist, Talent Intelligence

Position Summary Slalom is seeking a Senior Specialist, Talent Intelligence to deliver research and data-driven solutions that enable talent strategy and workforce planning. As part of our Talent and People Experience team, the role will operationalize capture and analysis of internal and market data to mature our talent data ecosystem, anticipate talent needs, drive talent growth and performance, and inform business and talent decisions across Slalom. This is hands-on role that blends analytics, applied behavioral science, and consulting acumen. The ideal candidate will bring strong quantitative expertise, a track record of delivering data solutions, curiosity, a need for learning and intellectual challenge, and a passion for understanding people, systems, and organizations. This role requires stakeholder engagement and partnering across HR and business leadership to implement plans with data-driven intelligence and deliver solutions that scale globally. The role offers substantial growth opportunities and is open to individuals who would be willing to learn organizational research methods and data platforms. What You'll Do * Talent Research and Workforce Analytics * Conduct Talent Research: Design and perform qualitative and quantitative research to lead discovery and validation of internal and external talent signals that drive business outcomes and decisions. * Survey research: Operationalize Slalom's employee listening agenda across lifecycle touchpoints (e.g., onboarding, exit, etc.) by implementing high-quality surveys and managing survey development, translation, distribution, automation, data cleaning, and analysis. * Advanced Analytics: Perform descriptive and inferential statistical analyses and create quantitative models to explore, understand, and predict talent outcomes and trends. * Execute Workforce Planning Analysis: Develop valid workforce scenarios, skill gap analyses, attrition and mobility analyses, talent supply and demand forecasts, and other workforce planning analyses to guide organizational design and capability building. * Interpret and Report Workforce Data: Analyze patterns in talent supply, demand, attrition, mobility, experience, and labor market to translate the data into insights delivered to stakeholders. * Talent Data Solutions Delivery * Implement Talent Intelligence Solutions: Deliver and validate solutions to enable holistic capture, understanding, and use of relevant employee and labor market data to derive actionable talent signals and trends. * Business Analysis: Gather, synthesize, and communicate comprehensive requirements to inform talent data solutions, and develop solution plans to appropriately meet these requirements. * Reporting & Visualization: Design, build, and maintain ad-hoc and standard reporting and visualizations on talent and business data. * Collaboration & Data Ecosystem Evolution * Influence Talent Decisions: Translate data into narratives and recommendations that influence decisions among senior leaders. * Drive Talent Data Maturity: Improve data quality, availability, and use by instituting data and research best practices and educating stakeholders on talent data topics, research findings, and solutions. * Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with HR, finance, business operations, and business leaders to drive solutions. * Administer Talent Data Platforms: Operate HRIS, employee experience management, and external talent intelligence platforms (e.g., Workday, Qualtrics, LinkedIn Talent Insights) to meet solution and stakeholder needs. What You'll Bring * Required * 3+ years of experience in talent analytics, business analytics, workforce planning, applied research roles, or a related field. * Strong interest in industrial-organizational psychology, organizational research, and talent analytics, and aiming to grow in this domain. * Strong quantitative and statistical analysis skills, advanced Excel skills, and experience using statistical software to deliver analyses. * Experience developing quantitative or simulation‑based optimization models and forecasts for supply, demand, or resource planning; experience applying this to talent domains (e.g., FTE forecasting, staffing) is a plus * Ability to reason across multiple levels of abstraction (e.g., data, models, and business context), interpret data to find patterns and implications, and make rational recommendations based on data, goals, tradeoffs, and constraints. * Strong intellectual curiosity, systems thinking, critical thinking, learning ability, and motivation to engage with complex, ambiguous subject matter. * Familiarity with business operations and talent management concepts (e.g., workforce planning, utilization, performance metrics, governance, etc.). * Ability to structure and drive work autonomously with limited supervision, while coordinating multi-stakeholder workflows and working with complex, ambiguous, or partially defined problem spaces. * Strong business analysis skill (identifying business needs, gathering requirements, and translating them into appropriate plans and solutions). * Strong attention to detail and commitment to data integrity, analysis validity, and discretion when working with sensitive data. * Strong written and verbal communications skills; able to communicate insights from complex analyses to senior and non-technical audiences. * Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality data reports, visualizations, and presentations. * Knowledge of data modeling and relational database concepts to effectively interpret and learn organizational data structures for reporting and analysis. * Preferred: * Education in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, or related fields. * Experience in consulting, professional services, or global matrixed organizations. * Survey operations or research ops experience; exposure to employee experience management systems, survey design, or psychometrics. * Familiarity with external labor market intelligence tools (e.g., Lightcast, Talent Neuron). * Intermediate PowerBI skills are a plus. About Us Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact. What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That's why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days. Compensation and Benefits Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance. Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for this role is $67,000 to $90,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time. We will accept applicants until April 16th, or until the position is filled. We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@. Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose. EEO and Accommodations Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@ if you require accommodations during the interview process.

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