Senior Workforce Planning Manager

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

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Role description:

The Senior Workforce Planning Manager Program Management Americas will drive workforce agility across Program Management in Americas, establishing proactive 12-week forecasts, maximizing productivity, and ensuring demand needs are managed, early warnings and proactive insights are provided to Americas Service leaders. This role will also manage a team of Resource Planners.

Role accountabilities:

Own the 12-week forecast for Program Management, highlighting supply and demand variance.

Establish data driven resource forecasts to enable proactive decision making.

Provide recruitment recommendations to Service Directors and inform TA partner(s).Maximize the agility of talent across accounts and Sectors, ensuring optimal use of named resource requests.

Monitor and report on weekly billable and productive time vs planned and drive improvements in performance and data quality.

Escalate key risks and issues to leadership and Industry WFP Directors as relevant.

Prepare and provide contingency staffing plans to support potential risks or outcomes.

Maintain an accurate view of workforce planning data for Program Management, including WFP Tags, people mapping and capacity reporting to ensure the integrity of planning and deployment decisions.

Maximize deployment opportunities to the Global Excellence Centre.

Optimize resource mix (GEC, Local, Global, Contingent) across the business to achieve optimal financial and client outcomes.

Support workforce integration and transformation projects within the Americas.

Ensure talent agility is maintained through optimizing use of name-based demand requests in Program Management.

Identify and communicate operational risk areas related to talent availability or deployment in Program Management.

Understand and support Sector / Market needs and support talent requirements.

Feedback to key stakeholders on compliance to processes that drives data quality.

Oversee and lead direct reports and provide leadership and capability building to the wider Resource Planning community.

Act as the primary point of contact for the regional Service Director.

Influence PM behaviour and approach to pursuits and project setup that provides sufficient resource level detail.

Feedback insight to service leaders on talent availability, workforce capability, deployment trends, and future capacity considerations.

Serve as a key point of contact for workforce supply and deployment requirements for Tier 1 and Tier 2 clients across the Americas.

Provide design requirements on technology and process from an Americas context.

Drive adoption of workforce planning processes to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data in Program Management.

Support and/or lead change management initiatives across Program Management, helping embed new workforce planning processes and ways of working.

Implement and oversee work-sharing and project resourcing policies.

Ensure the supply and demand matching process is optimized and working effectively.

Own and coordinate workforce planning training requirements for team managers, ensuring consistent understanding and adoption of workforce planning tools, systems, and processes.

Ensure SLAs relating to demand requests within the Demand Marketplace are consistently achieved and maintained in Program Management.

Establish approaches and processes to maximize any non-billable time toward productive work supporting clients or pursuits.

Drive productivity from non-billable time through proactive workforce management, deployment strategies, and operational planning initiatives.

Qualifications &

Experience:

Experience in workforce planning, resourcing, forecasting or related analytical roles within the AEC or related professional Services Industry in the Americas.

Strategic thinking and business…