Your responsibilities
Workforce Planning & Strategy
- Lead Avantor's global workforce planning cycle, building supply/demand models across business segments, functions, and geographies
- Partner with segment Presidents, HRBPs, and Finance to translate business transformation and growth goals into structured headcount and capability plans
- Develop scenario models to support restructuring, transformation, and strategic redeployment decisions — providing analytical rigour to senior business cases
- Build the workforce planning methodology, including frameworks, cadence, and governance aligned to the Avantor operating model
- Monitor the global life sciences labour market trends to inform talent strategy and competitive positioning
People Analytics & Reporting
- Own Avantor's people analytics function — including dashboards, predictive models, and self-service reporting for HR and business leaders
- Deliver high-quality, executive-ready workforce insight covering attrition risk, DEI progress, productivity, skills gaps, and organisational effectiveness
- Partner with HR Technology and IT to build scalable data pipelines from Avantor's HRIS (Workday) and adjacent systems
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Act as a trusted advisor to Finance on FTE budgeting, headcount governance, and cost transformation tracking
- Present workforce analytics findings in compelling, business-focused narratives to C-suite and segment leadership across multiple time zones
- Champion a culture of data-led decision-making across the global HR function
Process & Governance
- Establish and maintain data governance standards for all people data, ensuring accuracy and full compliance within legislation and multi-jurisdictional requirements across Avantor's global footprint
- Continuously improve planning methodologies, tooling, and ways of working in line with the Avantor -Business System continuous improvement approach
- Support headcount transparency and governance during periods of organisational restructuring and transformation