Resource & Talent Manager - Hybrid, Growth & Impact

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

Benefits offered by this job

InformedACADEMY™

Health and wellbeing plan

Hybrid working

Private Health Care Cover

Life assurance cover

Gym Membership

Office lunch

Onsite massage sessions

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Sabbatical Leave Scheme

Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay

Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay

Company Pension Contribution

Profit Share Scheme

Subscriptions

Referral scheme

Job summary

Informed Solutions is seeking a Resource and Talent Manager to shape capacity planning, talent development and recruitment across our delivery teams. You’ll partner with delivery leaders to balance workloads, identify opportunities for colleagues and ensure career growth through internal mobility and development programmes.

The role focuses on ongoing workforce planning, capability gaps, and a collaborative approach to resourcing and people development in a dynamic digital consultancy

Qualifications

• 3–5 years’ experience in resource or talent management, workforce planning or related roles.
• Experience coordinating people, capacity or skills across multiple teams or projects.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities calmly and effectively.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with colleagues, managers and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business requirements into practical resourcing or talent actions.
• Experience using spreadsheets, HR systems or similar data sources to produce meaningful insight.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Discretion and confidentiality.
• Collaborative, pragmatic and service-oriented mindset.
• Genuine interest in helping people develop and succeed.
• Experience in digital consultancy or project-based professional services is helpful but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain visibility of organisational capacity, skills and availability across delivery squads and teams.
• Work with project and Squad leads to forecast resource needs.
• Coordinate resource allocation across projects considering skills, development goals, availability and priorities.
• Support forward workforce planning, identifying capability gaps and recruitment needs.
• Develop relationships and connect colleagues with suitable project opportunities.
• Support recruitment planning by translating requirements into clear role profiles.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to coordinate recruitment activity.
• Contribute to succession planning and career pathways.
• Provide resource, recruitment and talent data to management.
• Produce reports on utilisation, recruitment progress and risks.
• Improve resource management processes and tools.
• Promote inclusive decision-making on allocation, recruitment and development.
• Support onboarding of new colleagues into squads and delivery teams.
• Contribute to People Services and InformedACADEMY development.

Skills

Resource management

Talent management

Workforce planning

Recruitment planning

HR systems

Data analysis

Communication skills

Confidentiality

Stakeholder management

Tools

Spreadsheets

HR systems

Job description

Informed Solutions is seeking a Resource and Talent Manager to shape capacity planning, talent development and recruitment across our delivery teams. You’ll partner with delivery leaders to balance workloads, identify opportunities for colleagues and ensure career growth through internal mobility and development programmes.

The role focuses on ongoing workforce planning, capability gaps, and a collaborative approach to resourcing and people development in a dynamic digital consultancy