Resource Deployment Consultant

Resource Deployment Consultant - London (SE1) - Competitive Salary

Our client, one of the largest professional services firms in the world and is one of the "Big Four" accounting firms are looking for a Resource Manager to join them.

The Resource Deployment Consultant is a key member of the Advisory Resource Deployment team and wider UK&I Resource Deployment network.

The role encompasses the following:

* Ensure optimal Advisory demand and supply management for resource deployment
* Use knowledge of clients and their capability requirements combined with an understanding of skills and career aspirations of individuals to make resourcing decisions
* Manage the bench/capacity and identify creative opportunities to optimise productivity and profitability for the Advisory Service Line
* Act as the first point of contact for resourcing conflicts and issues, escalating to the Resource


Your key responsibilities

* Drive and manage resourcing performance
* Analyses and takes actions on Advisory resourcing performance to Resource Deployment Manager
* Drives Retain versus Actual variance interventions as identified from Centre of Excellence (CoE) analytics
* Weekly review of prior week performance using CoE analytics
* Share SSL business performance and discuss trends, interventions and actions to improve results with your SL Resource Deployment Manager to inform Strategic Resource Lead and SL Leadership
* Track productivity targets with Advisory teams to drive performance
* Champion Retain accuracy and delegation to offshore team
* Oversight of non-chargeable activity e. holiday approval
* Action non-chargeable and authorised projects insights and highlighting areas of concern to SSL Leadership

Manage demand and supply

* Ensure optimal demand and supply management for resource deployment within a SSL
* Dealing with clashes
* Manage shortages and complexities from demand requests
* Source wider resourcing solutions to address fungible shortages and capacity
* Manage day to day resourcing escalations and issues
* Challenge the commercial drivers of the resourcing decisions
* Understand the bench/capacity and align appropriate actions
* Influencing near and offshoring resource solutions to engagement teams
* Implement supply initiatives
* Regular review of resource allocation
* Ensuring client teams are backfilled when faced with a leaver or move
* Regular stakeholder engagement
* Understand skills landscape and escalate skill shortages/excess to Resource Deployment Manager
* Inform Resource Deployment Manager of hot spots impacting short-term over or under supply of resources and execute actions to address within your area
* Understanding SSL pipeline and reflecting probability
* Work with Resource Deployment Manager/Lead on key accounts to understand future resourcing

Deliver Experience Management

* Understand client handler skills and career aspirations
* Maintain skills database
* Applying a D&I lens on all resourcing decisions
* Understanding Counsellor Connect feedback to drive the right experiences for client facing team
* Ensuring underperformers are given access to appropriate experiences
* Ensuring new joiners are allocated onto chargeable work
* Manage the rotation of resourcing e. SL rotation schemes
* Provide a Resource Management induction to all technical new joiners
* Create an Exceptional Team
* Participate in Resource Management team meetings, performance development requirements and training to develop the function
* Participate in UK&I Resourcing team projects
* Buddy for new joiners

Skills and attributes for success

* Strong stakeholder management capability to effectively influence Engagement Partners, Directors and Managers on resourcing solutions
* Ability to demonstrate business insight to make effective resourcing decisions e. right capabilities, skills mix, logistics to optimise performance of productivity and profitability
* Ability to think quickly and work under pressure to meet competing demands
* Confident and resilient to deal with challenges
* Exercises good judgement, knows when to flag issues and when to deal with independently

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