Resourcing Manager

Red Anchor Recruitment Limited; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Anchor Recruitment Limited partners with a boutique private equity advisory to recruit a Resourcing Manager. You will host resourcing meetings, coordinate across the business, and build systems to enable automation with AI-powered tools.

The ideal candidate has proven experience in resourcing, across multiple time zones, with strong analytical and communication skills. Hybrid work arrangement with 3 in-office days in London.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in resourcing/resource management, preferably in consultancy or leadership advisory.
• Experience resourcing across multiple time zones.
• Strong analytical skills and advanced Excel.
• Comfort with AI-powered tools and automation solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Excellent organisational and stakeholder-management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Resource live and pipeline projects across the three business areas.
• Maintain view of capability and capacity; keep knowledge current.
• Lead resourcing meetings, set agendas, drive decisions, track actions.

Skills

Resourcing & RM

Time-zone resourcing

Analytical thinking

Advanced Excel

AI tools adoption

Stakeholder management

Tools

AI-powered tools

Job description

Resourcing Manager

Private Equity Leadership Advisory – partnering with some of the most influential and senior leaders in the industry. Everyone works to exceptionally high standards within this boutique, entrepreneurial organisation.

Due to demand and the business is growing quickly, they are now looking for a new Resourcing Manager to come on board to ensure that the right person is engaged to the right client, owning the coordination and execution of those decisions.

This is a position with real ownership where you will host resourcing meetings, have the confidence and creditability to feedback to the business on what is and what is not possible. Able to develop systems and procedures to enable further automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Resource live and pipeline projects – owning and allocating client projects across all three areas of the business.
• Build and maintain the view of capability and capacity – build on excellent working knowledge of every colleagues capability, expertise and specialism and keep knowledge current as people develop.
• Lead the resourcing rhythm and advising the business – lead resourcing meetings, set agenda and drive others to make decisions and track actions.
• Contribute to the wider ecosystem – work in close partnership with the People team on recruitment, onboarding and development plan.

Success in the Role:

• Each projects requires to be staffed with the right person, on time with no client-facing gaps.
• The resourcing meeting is sharp and decisive.
• Consultants feel their developments and preferences are taken seriously in how work is allocated.
• The resourcing view is accurate and to be relied upon, and data foundations are in place for greater automation.
• Utilisation is visible, understood and actively managed, and capacity pressure is spotted before a problem arises.

The ideal candidate:

• Proven experience within a resourcing or resource management role ideally within management consultancy or leadership and advisory.
• Experience of resourcing across multiple time-zones.
• Excellent analytical skills with advanced excel and comfortable building and maintaining a complex tracker.
• Building and working with AI and AI powered tools.
• Experience of working within a smaller boutique organisation where all hands are on deck.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to liaise with senior consultants and partners.
• Exceptional organisational skills, able to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• You will enjoy working within a fast-paced, ever changing environment, resourceful and able to keep calm when priorities shift.
• Confident and team orientated, able to build up trust quickly across a small business.
• Commercially minded, with excellent judgement skills.
• Curious and open to change, including adopting new technology and AI to improve how resourcing is run

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office – must be Monday and Thursday and one other day.

Standard hours – 9am – 6pm with flexibility when working with global clients regarding time zones.

Red Anchor Recruitment is an equal opportunities agency.