Job title: Resource Manager

Location: Romsey/Hybrid

Salary: £65k

12 month FTC (Fixed Term Contract)

Candidates must be willing and eligible to go through SC security clearance.

I am looking for a Resource Manager for a client of mine who are a leading Tech and engineering firm operating within the UK defence and national security sectors. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Resource Manager to work in my clients National Security function, assisting of projects of national importance.

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. As a 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.

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 sectors which could include exposure to IT, 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.If you are interested in this role or wish to apply, please feel free to reply to this advert or call me on (phone number removed)

Many thanks