Staffing Advisor

What will you be doing?

• Enable the ongoing rapid growth of Efficio by proactively mitigating mid term resource challenges across junior and senior project staffing, allowing high quality project delivery
• Support the allocation of consultants on to projects
• Maintain intimate knowledge of ongoing development needs, project transitions, career aspirations and wellbeing
• Partner with consultants, mentors, HR and L&D to support and facilitate consultants’ career development
• Proactively manage consultant wellness and feed back to business
• Contribute to internal retention initiatives
• Responsible for the smooth onboarding of consultants (both new hires and temporary assignments from other regions) becoming their first point of contact for staffing related questions
• Utilise Certinia (PSA technology or similar) functionality to provide insights into resource utilisation, demand and forecasting from our Project Management ERP system
• Ensure Certinia reflects staffing decisions for managed consultants and is an updated single source of truth
• A continuous improvement mindset to challenge current ways of working and to seek process and efficiency improvements
• Working with the Business Development team and leadership to monitor sales opportunities and associated resource needs. Updating changes to resource requirements when necessary
• Develop future Resourcing forecast through resource planning process by partnering with colleagues in the Project Delivery team, local leadership and Recruitment to agree recruitment targets, i.e., quantity, grade, specific skillsets
• Maintain reporting, tools and trackers to monitor resourcing bottlenecks and drive effective escalation and resolution with the European leadership team

Essential Requirements

• Experience in a people facing role, ideally in Recruitment/L&D
• General understanding of business operations in a professional services environment
• Interest in people development, proactively seeking the right opportunities for consultants
• Able to manage multiple activities for different stakeholders under time pressure
• Able to flex to different working styles and personalities
• Experienced user of Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail
• Excellent analytical skills and comfortable with managing and analysing large datasets within Excel
• Proactive, quick learner, curious
• Calm, empathetic and diplomatic

Desirable Requirements

• Degree educated
• Experience of Professional Services Automation technology (resource management e.g. SalesForce, Certinia (previously called FinancialForce), Workday or other similar tools
• Interest in coaching/mentoring activities would be a plus
• Fluent in one of our business languages would be advantageous