Resource Specialist - #1791932

Location

UK Wide

About The Job You're Considering

We are looking for a person to join the CIS PMO team. The team supports multiple clients.

A Resource Specialist is responsible for managing staffing communications and actions for their assigned talents. They oversee all staffing related activities within a Practice. Depending on the size of a practice they can work in a team or autonomously. Based on this, a Resource Specialist reports to a more senior Staffing Manager.

Responsibilities

Resource Specialists are responsible for fulfilling staffing demands and matching the demand with the talents based on their skills and capabilities. To fulfil client demands they will cast, short-list, and allocate talents. They are responsible to activate the suitable sourcing channels: internal talent pool, cross staffing, and freelancing. Furthermore, they are responsible for scheduling capacity versus incoming demands, rotations, replacement, and renewals. Resource Specialist also assess and act on scenarios to optimize utilization of local bench. They are responsible for managing staffing communications and actions for their assigned talents. If necessary, a Resource Specialist is the first person to escalate potential fulfilment challenges as per the escalation process. The Head Staffing Manager is responsible for managing the team of Staffing Managers in the Practice and supervises tactical workforce planning activities.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:

identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

• Resource planning to allocate consultants effectively across multiple projects based on capability gaps, whilst monitoring and forecasting resource demand and proactive communicating any gaps with leadership,
• Place consultants into roles, balancing their development needs with the needs of the business
• Objective of the role is to proactively manage the resourcing process, identify issues affecting resourcing performance, help to develop solutions, working with a wide variety of stakeholders, in order to support the Management Team in ensuring CIS meets their financial and non-financial targets.
• Management of demand to also timely staffing which can mean working with multiple areas of supply, Perm employees, Contractors or third parties.
• Always ensuring our staffing tool is fully up to date and very well managed.
  
  

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your Skills And Experience

• Very strong MS Office skills, in particular excel with an aptitude to master new systems quickly
• Strong and effective communicator. Very Strong people skills, being able to effectively communicate and influence key decisions at all levels
• Excellent communication, both written and verbal, and ability to build and sustain productive relationships.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to adhere to processes and procedures.
• Proven time management skills as the need to prioritise tasks to meet deadlines is essential with ability to manage assigned workload, a strong team player.
  
  

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.

There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.

There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses. And it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.