Resource and Talent Manager

Informed Solutions; Altrincham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Informed Solutions is seeking a Resource and Talent Manager in the UK to balance capacity, skills and availability across delivery squads. You will partner with project leads and People Services to shape workforce planning, identify opportunities for internal mobility and support recruitment activities.

The role emphasizes building strong relationships, translating business needs into practical resourcing actions and delivering insight through regular reports on utilisation and risks.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years' experience in resource management, talent management or workforce planning.
• Experience coordinating capacity across multiple teams, projects or business areas.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities calmly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience in a digital consultancy or project-based professional services environment is helpful, not essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a clear view of organisational capacity, skills, experience and availability across squads and teams.
• Coordinate resource allocation across projects, considering skills, goals, availability and client needs.
• Support forward workforce planning, identifying capability gaps and recruitment requirements.
• Translate business requirements into clear role profiles and hiring priorities with Talent Acquisition and managers.
• Produce regular reports on utilisation, availability, recruitment progress and resourcing risks.
• Promote inclusive, transparent decisions about project allocation, recruitment and development.

Skills

Resource management

Talent management

Workforce planning

Recruitment planning

Professional services

Tools

HR systems

Spreadsheets

Job description

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK's most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place. You'll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges. At a certified Great Place to Work® you'll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

About Us

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen's Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

The Opportunity At Informed Solutions

We deliver technology and digital transformation that helps make our world safer, healthier, cleaner, more inclusive and smarter. Our continued success depends on having the right people, with the right skills, working on the right opportunities at the right time. We are looking for a Resource and Talent Manager to help us build, support and develop the talented teams who deliver our #TechForGood programmes. This is a varied role combining resource planning, talent management, workforce planning and people-focused delivery. You will work closely with delivery leads, Squad leads, People Services and senior colleagues to understand our capability needs, identify opportunities for our people, and help ensure that our teams have a great career development experience, are well-supported and able to do their best work. The ideal candidate will be organised, commercially aware and confident working with people at all levels. You will be comfortable balancing immediate resourcing priorities with longer-term workforce planning and talent development.

As a Resource and Talent Manager, you will:

• Maintain a clear view of organisational capacity, skills, experience and availability across our delivery Squads and teams.
• Work with project and Squad leads to understand current and future resource requirements.
• Coordinate resource allocation across projects, taking account of skills, development goals, availability, client needs and commercial priorities.
• Support forward workforce planning, identifying capability gaps, recruitment requirements and opportunities for internal mobility.
• Develop constructive relationships with colleagues, understanding their aspirations and helping connect them with suitable project and development opportunities.
• Support recruitment planning by translating business requirements into clear role profiles and hiring priorities.
• Work with Talent Acquisition and hiring managers to coordinate recruitment activity and maintain a strong candidate experience.
• Contribute to succession planning, career pathways and talent reviews.
• Provide accurate resource, recruitment and talent information to support management decision-making.
• Produce regular reports and insight on utilisation, availability, recruitment progress, skills coverage and emerging resourcing risks.
• Help improve resource management processes, tools and ways of working.
• Promote inclusive, transparent and well-informed decisions about project allocation, recruitment and development.
• Support the effective onboarding of new colleagues and their transition into Squads and delivery teams.
• Contribute to People Services and professional development initiatives, including InformedACADEMY™.

We are looking for someone with:

• 3-5 years' experience in resource management, talent management, workforce planning, recruitment planning, professional services or a related people-focused role.
• Experience coordinating people, capacity or skills across multiple teams, projects or business areas.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities calmly and effectively.
• Confidence building trusted relationships with colleagues, managers and senior stakeholders.
• The ability to understand business requirements and translate them into practical resourcing or talent actions.
• Experience using spreadsheets, HR systems, resource management tools or similar data sources to produce meaningful insight.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Good judgement, discretion and an understanding of the importance of confidentiality
• A collaborative, pragmatic and service-oriented approach.
• A genuine interest in helping people develop and succeed.
• Experience within a digital consultancy, technology business, engineering organisation or project-based professional services environment would be particularly helpful, although it is not essential.

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