Resource Director

The Resourcing Director contributes to the achievement of the Evidence Solutions group’s business strategies and goals by partnering with applicable senior leaders, operations directors, and resource coordinators across teams and applying functional/technical expertise to enable and enhance operational performance through effective forecasting, planning and deployment of organizational resources. The Resourcing Director assesses capacity data against estimated quarterly revenue to advise management how to right-level staffing. The Resourcing Director identifies data trends and works with managers to meet utilization targets. The Resourcing Director collaborates with the Operations team, HR and Talent Acquisition to set best-in-class onboarding protocols for incoming team members. As a trusted partner to help problem-solve any areas of inefficiency, the Resourcing Director plays a vital role with the Operations team,

Planning, Analyzing & Evaluating:

• Analyze utilization data within financial reports and project management systems to recommend action to managers, group leads, and/or exec. leadership. Generate insights from Enterprise Resource Planning software data via mastery of report generation. Maintain in-depth understanding of project/resource management software at a system admin level.
• Advise department heads about load balancing, talent assessment, team structure, and recruitment approach where needed, in partnership with HR and TA.
• Collaborate with group leaders on change management, new process adoption and training on new technologies/platforms, or upgrades to existing resource management processes/platforms/technologies.

Team Leading, Coordinating, Managing:

• Understand broader Precision entities and their offerings in order to partner with Resourcing Managers from other business units to share learnings and best practices.
• Conduct regular resourcing meetings with group leads, assess inputs against available data, and work with leads to determine best course of action to balance workload. Expedite solutions with teams to identify, hire, and onboard talent when necessary.
• Determine how new resource management system can automate part of the current manual staffing process including updates and meeting cadence.
• Facilitate talent sharing across teams, offices, or other Precision entities during times of temporary talent constraints or excess capacity.
• Un-stick mechanics/processes within teams that affect the level of efficiency. Problem-solve 'pain points' in process by guiding team to resolution. Assess task, roles and responsibilities, and technology solutions. Lead roll-out of revised processes.

Financial & Administrative:

• Conduct quarterly talent need assessment by examining utilization and capacity levels against budgeted revenue.
• Working with Managing Directors and Finance, facilitate moving work across revenue centers, i.e., specific tasks, projects, workstreams or clients, as warranted. Make recommendations, propose, and execute solution.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree

Work Experience:

• 4+ years in Resource Management or Project Management with heavy involvement in resourcing in a consulting environment

Skills:

• Has strong reporting skills using Excel and other project management tools
• Possesses a working knowledge of engagement-based consulting resource requirements
• Possesses an appreciation for the pace and rigor of a consulting environment
• May require travel domestically and/or internationally including overnight stays

Competencies:  

• Exceptional written and verbal communication
• Collaboratively problem solve and communicate solutions to teams
• Analytical thinking and high attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple competing efforts, prioritize and communicate tradeoffs to leadership