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What you’ll be doing:
Cask is seeking a resource planning and analysis professional to join our team to help schedule and align resources for current projects and to forecast future resource needs to enable us to scale effectively as a fast paced growing professional services firm.
The Resource Planning Analyst is responsible for partnering with key stakeholders across strategy, sales, and delivery to ensure the resources needed to meet business commitments and schedule the right resources based on required skills, qualifications, and environment. The Resource Management Professional will also be involved in efforts to manage resource capacity and utilization to maintain profitability on all projects across the company. This person will also lead or participate in internal projects across Cask functions that incorporate external research and enable data-driven decision making.
- Help drive and execute resource management strategy and optimization activities.
- Ensure resources are optimally allocated to various client projects, based on customer lifetime value and resource skills.
Planning
Collaborate with key stakeholders and sales team to thoroughly understand future needs and ensure resources are available to meet commitments
Ensure Project Managers are maintaining resource plans for individual projects
Ensure Account Executives are maintaining resource plans for upcoming projects
Coordinate activities with leadership and project managers to include full analysis of need, internal skill and capacity analysis, and execution of demand fulfillment activities
Builds and maintains a company level resourcing plan to determine when it is appropriate to make new hires for different roles and skills
Coordinate with Talent Management and Recruiting to drive hiring based on the company level resourcing plan
Collaborates with finance to enable effective revenue forecasting and planning
Scheduling
Soft book resources to projects, based on the resource requirements and availability, skill and locations
Ensure all projects and/or tasks are staffed prior to kickoff with the appropriate billable resources
Facilitate the fulfillment of staffing requests and prioritizing resource requests, working with Project Managers and other team members to ensure the right resources assignments are made in the required time-frame
Identify resource allocation conflicts to team members to allow for resolution
Analysis & Reporting
Develop and present resourcing forecast to the leadership team for business planning.
Assist in "forward planning" and analysis activities to stay ahead of current resource demand, and plan for future company growth
Assist in the analysis and execution of resource utilization and capacity
Facilitate relationships between teams to find resources and resolve issues that are preventing project progress
Gather and analyze data to determine trends.
Identify and address key resource and skill gaps throughout the organization in conjunction with workforce planning activities
Monitor actuals vs plans for individual projects and across the delivery functions
Integration for HR and Management Processes
Work with project managers to hard book resources on projects
Work with Talent Management and Supervisors to help ensure resources skills are accurate
Work with Delivery project management to ensure an accurate record of current and future available resources
Work with Talent Management and project managers to understand resource feedback and their potential fit with different customers
Other duties as assigned.
What you’ll bring to the table:
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college / university
Minimum 3 years of experience in Resource Management, PMO, Business Analyst, Talent Acquisition or related experience
Experience forecasting to ensure resources are available to meet business commitments
Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify data trends
Proficiency in data analytics or business intelligence concepts
Proficient performing analysis using software including Excel, Google Sheets, CRM systems, resource planning tools
Exceptional ability to make timely and effective decisions to meet fluid deadlines
Capability to work autonomously and make independent decisions to meet deliverables with minimal oversight
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Extremely organized with great attention to detail.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
Why Cask?
Cooper [Noun | employee of Cask]. Experienced and reliable artisan who takes pride in providing innovative solutions to common challenges.
Multi-Skilled & High Performing [adjective | what makes a true Cooper]. Coopers give it their all by exceeding expectations. We must ensure that our deliverables actually solve a customer’s business problem.
Mojo [Noun | our mindset]. Coopers work together to solve complex problems through the joy of innovation, collaboration and personal engagements not common in business today.
Come be a part of the transformation and innovation we deliver. Cask was founded in 2004 by a group of professionals who saw the need to help clients use process and technology in more efficient, cost-effective ways and create business value; today we are a Consulting Magazine "top 10 firm to work for" and are a 4-time Inc 5000 Fastest-growing company.
Perks? Oh, yes.
Cask's success is based upon our most valuable asset - the people. Cask offers a complete benefits package designed with your needs in mind. We strive to take an “employee first” approach. For more information about Cask’s benefits, please visit https://www.casknx.com/careers/.
We value diversity at our company. Cask is an equal opportunity employer. Everyone who applies with the qualifications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
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