Job Description

The Senior Manager, Workforce Planning role will be a leader on the Capacity Planning team reporting into the International Planning Lead. The Capacity Planning team\'s mission is to enable the organization to grow and manage successful business performance through making better decisions about our most precious asset - our people.

The scope of the role will include forecasting and stewarding workforce requirements for a region/market, industry, or capability/craft, business analytics, and strategic partnership with market/delivery business leaders and CFOs. You should have deep experience in financial planning/financial modeling, analytics, business operations and an ability to sometimes work in an undefined space with a solution-oriented mindset.

Your Impact:

• With your proven expertise in workforce management, you will drive analysis and manage overall brand/regional/capability/craft workforce planning
• Develop deep knowledge bases in your space by analyzing trends and business performance expectations
• Become a trusted partner to your business, and create different workforce management scenarios and advise on a recommended path
• Understand and forecast the P&L impacts of any given plan and the associated risks/opportunities
• Forecast and govern the people performance metrics for a region including utilization, non-billable time
• Build and monitor tools and reports that will enable the team to make effective capacity decisions
• Monitor and track actual operations and performance to adjust and improve on-going planning/performance
• Recommend optimal business strategies based on historical performance, predictive analytics and scenario-based analysis
• Makes recommendations to senior management for continuous improvement and risk mitigation
• Coordinate annual and quarterly planning and monthly updates/replans with various stakeholders
• Advise and consult with delivery, HR, and finance leadership on long-term and short-term workforce strategy.

Qualifications

Your Skills and Experience:

• A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics or similar
• Extensive experience in Financial or Workforce planning, with demonstrable skills in financial analysis, planning, forecasting, and data analytics.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with multiple teams and stakeholders at all levels across geographies
• Advanced level knowledge in MS Excel, PowerPoint and PowerBI.
• Business acumen and ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from senior stakeholders.

Set Yourself Apart With:

• An MBA or other advanced degree

Additional Information

What\'s in it for you?

• We have got you and your family covered with 25 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, private healthcare for you AND your family (pre-existing conditions included), and a pension
• We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle
• Our beautiful Turnmill office is open
• You can meet over a complimentary barista-made coffee and our teams have been busy replicating face-to-face social activities through learning languages virtually, yoga sessions, having a laugh at our online summer fairs and so much more
• We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms
• Diversity and inclusion aren\'t just buzzwords. We offer an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups and work with you to give back to the local community through CSR efforts

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity.

United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients\' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

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