Resource Manager (10 Month FTC)
Posted 22/08/2024 by Roke
Resource Manager - 10M FTC
As a Resource Manager, you will thrive on being a trusted advisor to senior leadership and provide a balanced and pragmatic advice on strategic resource management - Liaising, influencing, and challenging effectively to build relationships at all levels and with multiple stakeholders.
Roke are a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Industry 4.0 through our Futures business and Intelligence as a Service. You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.
This is an exciting time for Resource Management at Roke as we build on the professionalism of our people and work closely with the business to develop and implement Roke business and people strategy. The Resource Management Office works at the centre of the business to assist the company in being more agile and providing the right people, on the right projects, at the right time.
As our next Resource Manager, using your commercial mind-set and business acumen you'll be operational resourcing of people and skills within a technology-focussed organisation - not recruitment.
Key Responsibilities:
Tactical Resource Management - allocation and movement of resources which to ensure optimisation of performance, customer satisfaction and employee morale, engaging key stakeholders as necessary.
Onboarding and Mobilisation - Early engagement with all new hires to accelerate mobilisation onto projects and provide best possible employee experience.
Productive & Customer Funded Utilisation (CFU) Performance Management - Maximising CFU whilst supporting other productive activity with available resource (Innovation, Training etc). Drive activity on stranded resources (clearances, under-performance and suspense), taking corrective action as necessary.
Directorate Capacity Demand & Supply Management - act as the 'bridge' between capacity planning function and the BU Ops teams in order to test analysis, validate planning assumptions and mitigate risk of over/under supply.
Cross Directorate Optimisation & Escalation Management - Facilitator of x-business employee mobility, owning loan agreements and extensions. First stage ownership of internal and x-BU escalation management.
Short to Medium Term capacity planning & forecasting - Assist BU Ops Team with management and completion of BU capacity model.BU Capacity Optimisation - Movement of resources to drive CFU and profitability, maximise rate-card profitability. Work with adjacent Resource Managers to find the best solutions for the business, its customers, and employees.
Rotation Management - Ownership of BAU and quarterly rotation activity, building and executing agreed plans.
Strategic Resource Planning - Point of contact for supporting definition and build for complex resourcing requests and scenario planning for large, binary opportunities e.g. potential blended solutions of internal employees, Associates and/or Sub-contractors
Deputise - Be a credible deputy for the Head of Resourcing as necessary.
The Key Requirements...
* Experience of operational resourcing in Professional Services, or similar matrix organisation
* Experience of working in Defence and/or National Security industries
* Significant experience of technology sector including exposure to Software Development, Cyber, AI & ML, Data Science and Systems Engineering professions.
* Able to demonstrate being comfortable with complexity and working with often ambiguous requirements.
* Regarded as SME within stakeholder community and leads on defining approach to operational resourcing within the BU.
* Experience of using Resource Management tooling/technology such as core PSA provision, or dedicated RM tools such as Profinda, Kantata, Retain, Dayshape, Tempus or similar is desirable.
Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act - through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe - that's our mission, passion, and motivation.
Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you'll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last 4 years, we intend to double our headcount by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.
Where you'll work...
ROMSEY OR GLOUCESTER
Clearances...
Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance.
The Next Step...
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.
As a Resource Manager, you will thrive on being a trusted advisor to senior leadership and provide a balanced and pragmatic advice on strategic resource management - Liaising, influencing, and challenging effectively to build relationships at all levels and with multiple stakeholders.
Roke are a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Industry 4.0 through our Futures business and Intelligence as a Service. You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.
This is an exciting time for Resource Management at Roke as we build on the professionalism of our people and work closely with the business to develop and implement Roke business and people strategy. The Resource Management Office works at the centre of the business to assist the company in being more agile and providing the right people, on the right projects, at the right time.
As our next Resource Manager, using your commercial mind-set and business acumen you'll be operational resourcing of people and skills within a technology-focussed organisation - not recruitment.
Key Responsibilities:
Tactical Resource Management - allocation and movement of resources which to ensure optimisation of performance, customer satisfaction and employee morale, engaging key stakeholders as necessary.
Onboarding and Mobilisation - Early engagement with all new hires to accelerate mobilisation onto projects and provide best possible employee experience.
Productive & Customer Funded Utilisation (CFU) Performance Management - Maximising CFU whilst supporting other productive activity with available resource (Innovation, Training etc). Drive activity on stranded resources (clearances, under-performance and suspense), taking corrective action as necessary.
Directorate Capacity Demand & Supply Management - act as the 'bridge' between capacity planning function and the BU Ops teams in order to test analysis, validate planning assumptions and mitigate risk of over/under supply.
Cross Directorate Optimisation & Escalation Management - Facilitator of x-business employee mobility, owning loan agreements and extensions. First stage ownership of internal and x-BU escalation management.
Short to Medium Term capacity planning & forecasting - Assist BU Ops Team with management and completion of BU capacity model.BU Capacity Optimisation - Movement of resources to drive CFU and profitability, maximise rate-card profitability. Work with adjacent Resource Managers to find the best solutions for the business, its customers, and employees.
Rotation Management - Ownership of BAU and quarterly rotation activity, building and executing agreed plans.
Strategic Resource Planning - Point of contact for supporting definition and build for complex resourcing requests and scenario planning for large, binary opportunities e.g. potential blended solutions of internal employees, Associates and/or Sub-contractors
Deputise - Be a credible deputy for the Head of Resourcing as necessary.
The Key Requirements...
* Experience of operational resourcing in Professional Services, or similar matrix organisation
* Experience of working in Defence and/or National Security industries
* Significant experience of technology sector including exposure to Software Development, Cyber, AI & ML, Data Science and Systems Engineering professions.
* Able to demonstrate being comfortable with complexity and working with often ambiguous requirements.
* Regarded as SME within stakeholder community and leads on defining approach to operational resourcing within the BU.
* Experience of using Resource Management tooling/technology such as core PSA provision, or dedicated RM tools such as Profinda, Kantata, Retain, Dayshape, Tempus or similar is desirable.
Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act - through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe - that's our mission, passion, and motivation.
Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you'll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last 4 years, we intend to double our headcount by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.
Where you'll work...
ROMSEY OR GLOUCESTER
Clearances...
Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance.
The Next Step...
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.
- Type:
- Permanent
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- 001818
- Job ID:
- 222207868
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