Senior Workforce Planning Manager - Americas will drive workforce agility across a Service in the Americas, establishing proactive 12-week forecasts, maximizing productivity, and ensuring demand needs are managed.
Requirements
- Experience in workforce planning, resourcing, forecasting or related analytical roles within the AEC or related professional Services Industry in the Americas.
- Strategic thinking and business acumen, with the ability to translate regional Service forecasts, utilization trends and project demand into actionable workforce planning insight.
- Deep understanding of workforce analytics and forecasting, including forecast versus actual billable hours, productivity metrics and demand variance analysis.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to work effectively with Regional Service Directors, Service Area Leaders, Major Project Directors and Talent Acquisition partners.
- Analytical and data-driven, with strong capability in interpreting workforce data, identifying risks and driving proactive interventions.
- Detailed knowledge of processes and systems that drive workforce planning data, demand matching and deployment decisions, or the ability to quickly build that knowledge in a comparable environment.
- Client oriented mindset, with understanding of Service offerings and differentiators from a client perspective and how these influence workforce needs.
- Experience leading or managing resource planners or similar workforce planning teams, including setting priorities, building capability and improving forecast accuracy and productivity.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and escalate workforce risks, support contingent staffing decisions and maintain accurate workforce tags and planning data.
- Strong communication skills, able to provide clear recommendations and insight to Service leaders and project stakeholders on talent availability and capability.
- Leadership style that empowers Arcadians, promotes accountability and continuous improvement, and supports a healthy, inclusive and high engagement culture aligned to the Arcadis Leadership profile of being curious, driving success and igniting passion.
- Degree level education in a relevant technical or commercial discipline such as business, operations, human resources, analytics, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Advanced degree preferred such as MBA or a relevant Master’s in business, human resources, analytics, operations or a related field, or equivalent senior level experience in complex regional organizations.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- EAP
- 401K
- STD
- LTD
- AD&D
- life insurance
- paid parental leave
- reward & recognition program
- wellbeing benefits
- adoption assistance
- tuition reimbursement
