Resource Officer Belfast, Northern Ireland
Job description
PwC’s Resource Management (RM) team has been brought together across our whole firm to enable our business to be even more agile in the ever evolving markets we work with, providing the right people on the right projects at the right time.
As a Resourcing Officer, you’ll support the Business Unit (BU) leadership and play an important role in the implementation and delivery of RM services to provide operational excellence. This is a people focused role, founded on establishing effective working relationships with all key stakeholders across the business.
This role will be based in Belfast/London/Bradford and will be supporting the Nexus Competency Centre.
- Day to day deployment of staff to projects/assignments balancing the needs of the business with the needs of the individual
- Produce Management Information (MI) for the RM and BU leadership and use this to make informed resourcing decisions and recommendations to the BU
- Build strong lasting relationships within the BU and the wider resourcing function to enable greater effectiveness in providing solutions for resourcing demands
- Build relationships with stakeholders and become the point of contact and trusted advisor for resourcing
- Improve agility by utilising people within your immediate area and across the firm as a whole, encouraging ‘cycles of experience’ to our people
Technical expertise:
- Manage all the day to day deployment requirements for your BU
- Become a subject matter expert with resourcing systems keeping records up to date and accurate at all times
- Proactively manage resourcing conflicts and priorities
- Develop a strong understanding of how profitability, agility and retention are affected by resourcing decisions
- Demonstrate an ability to use MI to support decision making
Team and Personal Development:
- Actively seek and identify opportunities for personal development
- Give and receive constructive feedback to improve performance
- Proactive and willing to go the extra mile
Knowledge & skills required:
- Demonstrable experience of workforce planning, resourcing, recruitment or project management experience within a professional environment
- Evidence of well refined communication skills
- An ability to cultivate and maintain strong relationships with an ability to communicate and negotiate across all levels of the business
- Able to plan prioritise, multi task and manage a significant workload under pressure
- Must be comfortable and confident with systems – Microsoft Office (particularly Excel)
- Knowledge of manpower planning systems would be advantageous but not essential
Location
Belfast/London/Bradford
Internal firm services
In order to deliver a first-class service to our clients, we need first-class support internally. Internal firm services is a network of specialist support professionals and includes marketing, recruitment, human capital, finance, technology, learning and development, procurement, to name but a few. Each team plays a vital role in making sure we have all the right resources, services and technology across our business.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
