Full job description
Verve is seeking a VP Global People Intelligence & Digital Transformation to lead a global Center of Excellence combining workforce planning, people analytics, HR technology, and AI-driven innovation. This leadership role involves shaping workforce decisions for over 1,000 employees across multiple countries. Responsibilities include leading global workforce planning, personnel cost planning, developing HR dashboards and KPI frameworks, managing the global HR technology landscape, driving digital transformation, leveraging AI and automation in HR, and establishing data governance standards. Requirements include significant leadership experience in people analytics or HR transformation, strong financial and forecasting skills, experience with HRIS systems, dashboard creation, digital transformation, AI and automation knowledge, and excellent stakeholder management. Benefits include a corporate pension scheme, personalized benefits budget, mental health support, training budget, language classes, and paid vacation days. The role is full-time and remote based in Germany.
What you'll do
- Lead global workforce planning and headcount governance
- Develop long-term FTE forecasting models
- Own personnel cost planning and workforce budgeting
- Partner closely with Finance to improve forecasting accuracy and workforce investment decisions
- Build executive reporting for Board and Leadership
- Develop meaningful HR dashboards and KPI frameworks
- Transform people data into actionable business insights
- Define and monitor organizational health metrics
- Create predictive analytics to support strategic workforce decisions
- Own the global HR technology landscape
- Drive continuous optimization of HR systems and processes
- Lead implementation of new digital tools and integrations
- Ensure high-quality people data across all platforms
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI across the employee lifecycle
- Introduce intelligent automation into HR operations
- Evaluate emerging technologies and build AI use cases that create measurable business value
- Establish global standards for people data governance
- Define HR metrics and reporting methodologies
- Ensure data quality, consistency and compliance across all regions
Requirements
- Significant leadership experience in People Analytics, Workforce Planning, HR Technology or HR Transformation
- Strong financial understanding with experience in personnel cost planning and forecasting
- Experience partnering with Finance and executive leadership
- Deep knowledge of HRIS ecosystems and data architecture
- Proven experience building dashboards and translating data into business decisions
- Experience leading digital transformation initiatives
- Strong understanding of AI, automation and emerging HR technologies
- Excellent stakeholder management skills across international organizations
- Ability to simplify complex data into clear business recommendations
- Experience in fast-growing international technology companies (nice to have)
- Knowledge of tools such as HiBob, Workday, SuccessFactors, Greenhouse or similar platforms (nice to have)
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Looker or modern analytics platforms (nice to have)
- Experience with AI applications, predictive analytics and workforce modeling (nice to have)
Tech stack
HRISHiBobWorkdaySuccessFactorsGreenhousePower BITableauLookerAIAutomation
Benefits
Allianz Corporate Pension SchemePersonalized Benefits Platform with a budget of €100/month for mobility support, internet allowance, daycare subsidy, Urban Sports Club membership, personal development, and shopping vouchersNilo Health Workplace Mental Health SolutionAnnual training budget and internal webinarsGerman/English language classes27 paid vacation days plus 3 Wellness days in addition to public holidays